News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43312, 11 April 1908, Page 1

News Items.

A Eussian for a long time, as he does not® come of age till he is 26 years iB old. - ■’. During thirty .days df ter a||| death in China, the : nearest A relatives of the deceas&jbdo notiJj shave nor change ..their clotheJjjjß The largest cabbage farm iqPNR near Chicago. It: covers 190 acres, and nearly 1A million cabbages arer raised annually. j - In the last 120 years ten millions of acres of waste British land have been enclosed; ■ but‘these could not £e sold for ,/; the ..cost ol[ their reclaiming. ? Ninety nine rnek remain poor ;!S! waiting for a to them, where only one is made ricd by the longed<*fpr death of a dried up uncle. \ An enormous ishee|ij declared to be the largest and heaviest ever > seen ? .-an. English market, ? fras ; W. Leicester cattle market at Christmas. The ,animal ; which stood a foot -It higher than, ,the ordinary pen, bumped the scale at 4cwt. Norwegian farmers -are'wise, and are eager to possess farms, atf^hei; instead of working for other® people. There are about ■ 420,000 farmers in Norway, and 100,000 of them owABB fSnhs. yy^M On and after January Ist, 1909, every candidate fora®;certificate of competency, either ®|| as master or mate> will required to show to. the Marine ■■gl Department a certificate that possesses knowledge of first aid to the injured. The department B|| is arranging with the St. JohnßH Ambulance Association special % facilities -for the®*! instruction and ,examma(ion®||| of candidates. BBb A curious lake is to found in the island of Kildine® vJ in the North Sea. It.iif® separated from the ocean by a I narrow strip of land,. and con- ■jl tains salt water under thefßH surface, in which sponges;lßH codfish, and other animals flourish. The surfaceßjl of the water however, is per- Big fectly fresh, and daphinas and other fresh-water ■£s creatures; ; H The Melbourne Argus re- fIH ports that at the country town- MM ship of Kinmare the other, day®;' ; Miss D. Worrell, a daughter of Mr S. H. Worrell, had an I unpleasant experience whiie*H| dressing. She put her foot int6®Jjj one of her shoes, but feeling a ® soft obstruction in the toe took off the shoe and shook it. .-/Tov'Bß her great astonishment abrown snake dropped out of the shoe. The snake, which was eventu •BE ally killed with a poker, was about 2ft long. The omits to mention the 'size of th&Bjl shoe worn by the; lady, ,fl In Switzerland and other-.'MBB mountainous countries the goat Bj| leads long strings of. daily to and from the mourn-Bi tains; but it is in South Africa that it is regularly kept and®, ' employed as a leader of flocks Bp of sheep. Should a blinding® storm of rain or hail drive silly sheep before it, or cause them to huddle together iu corner so as to suffocate each other, the trained goat will wake them up,and by a method best H known to himself, will indu them to follow him to a place ofH| safety. .