Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1760, 17 August 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

Grand Fancy Dress Ball takes place here next month. j„The new Paeroa theatre is nearing completion. New businesses are being started daily at Paeroa. Mr H. Beynolds will-meet the milk snppliers again at Hamilton on the 21st inst. Waikato milk suppliers meet at Ohaupo on Tuesday next to consider the coming season. The Victorian gold returns for quarter ending June 30th, was 166709 oz.. Mr F. A. White • has arrived in London on business in connection with mining matters. The Governor of Syria has refused to give a native a license to establish a brewery in JeruS ilem, out. of deference to the scruples of Jewish and Christian residents. Football match', Te Aroha v. Karangahake, at Mackaytown to-day. Mr Jas. Mills is expected to return home from the Thames Hospital to-day. A child named Dix, of the Thaines, had its eye cut out by. falling on a glass bottle. It is rumoured that a largo reef, yielding a high percentage of gold, has been discovered between Waitekauri and Whangamata.

First subscription library, Philadelphia, 1731. Dark Ages, from the 6th to the 14th century. The Latin tongue became obsolete about 580. The great London fire occured September 26,1666. The value of a ton of pure gold is 602,790,21 dollars. Ether was/first used for surgical purposes in 1844.

Ignatius Loyola founded the order of Jusuits, 1541.

First authentic use of organs, 755; in England, 951. The first newspaper advertisement appearedTrflfjoz: " ~ . , - Cork is the bark taken from a species of the oak tree.

Benjamin Frankljn used the first lighting rods, 1752. • Glass windows "(colored) wore used in the Bth century. Authentic history of China commenced 3,000 years BC. v.; Introduction of homcepathy into the United States, 1825.

Spectables were first inventod by an Italian in the 13th century. Medicine was introduced into Some from Greece,.2oo B.C. •

First electric telegraph, Paddington to Brayton,England, 1835. The Chaldeans were the first people who worked in metals. ' First life insurance, in London, 1772; in America, Philadelphia, 1812.

Egyptain pottery is the oldest known ; dates from 2.000 B.C. Julius Caesar invaded Britain, 55 8,C.; assassinated, 44 B.C.

Soap was first manufactured in England in the 16th century.

The largest free territorial government is the United States.

First photograph produced in England, 1802; perfected, 1841. First marine insurance, A.D. 533; England, 1598; America, 1721. Professor Oersted, Copenhagen, discovered electro-mdgnetism, in 1819. First American express, New York to Boston—W. F. Harnden.

Glass windows were first introduced into England in the Bth century. Chicago is little more than fifty years old, and.is the eighteenth city of the world. Glass was made in Egypt, 3,000. 8.C.; earliest date of transparent glass, 719 B.C. First public schools in America were established in the New England States about 1642. The value of margarine yearly received in the United Kingdom from abroad comes to about ,£3,000,000. A building for a school of architecture — the first of its kind in England—ha 3 been opened in Liverpool. It is endowned by the corporation. A very pretty nugget, weighing 29 oz was sold at Dunolly, Victoria, by a young man, who got it in some old workings in Waa.nyarra. Applicant: : Please, ma’ma, can you help a poor man who is out of work ?’ Woman: ‘ I think I can find something for you to do.’ Applicant (gratefully) : ‘ Thanks. If you could give me some washing to do I’ll take it home to my wife ’ , ‘You want me to go to the roof of that tower ?’ said the workman. ‘ Yes.’ 4 Do you notice there’s, a clock in ]the‘tower ?’ ‘I know it. What difference does that make ?’ • I’ll have to charge you extra for working over time.’ A Board of Experts is to be set up in connection with the competition for the prizes of .£l5O and £IOO for the best two series of designs for New Zealand postage and revenue stamps. About 200 designs have been sent in.