News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43313, 14 April 1908, Page 1

News Items.

- « It may interest some of curl smokers to know that thousands ; of the cheapest cigars. made from dead chestnut leareirSii soaked in tobaccojuice; with an J outer cover of reel tobacco. I Careless dairymen think that M all the talk about the for cleanliness is a piece <Mts overdrawn fudge and humbuflßE But do they make as,;mttoaM|| money from their oows as tk»MB clean, careful and farmer? -^B

Farm servants are exception's ally long lived, only seven o«t| of every I*ooo succumbing yearly; but, low as thalfl proportion is, it is well beatefew by gardeners with the "m*.lß prisingly low deathrate of lift II per 1,000. I j Eagles are so plentiful in the Jl mountains near Celma, Gal; ■ to be a serious nuisance te v stockmen. They have a strong J preference for sucking and a stockman says that in ®ni;|M season full 200 young pigs were || earned from his farm by eagles.- Si One of the most famous palls I of flowers ever used funeral was one which adomsslSjß the coffin of the late William Tl.«| Vanderbilt. It was a work of Bp art, and as great a triumph as H the most famous picture that Ml was ever painted. It was.B made entirely of orchards with Mg the exception of a few spots of B| violets, and cost £3OO. '..MS The Town Clerk of AyrMj (Scotland) has forwarded to the Ml Nelson City CounciiinformationMg with regard to the use calcium chloride to combat theMl street dust nuisance. dressing, it was Stated, sufficient for 21 days, and cost a mile for streets 30 feetfl wide was £3 for. chemicals.Ml The Ayr Council was satisfied with the results. TheJH matter has been referred to the H| Works Committee of theflg Counoil. . .'/Ml

Shops that, according to tbeil advertisements, are usually selling below 1 cost price would find themselves, if under German rule, obliged to explain to an offioial what they mean by cost price. If it appeared tha| the shopkeeper was really making a profit he would be taken to court and fined. Cost price the German commercial law defines to be the pries which the shopkeeper himsell paid the factory or depot, am when he announces a sale Jji cost price he must show from his books that the figurei correspond. !§i How did “ The Timea obtain its well-known nickname, “ The Thunderer ”‘ 1 The “Daily Chrdnicle ” say that the circumstances in whisi the name was first applied w the paper may be recalled Two ladies of Kear wen splashed with mud by an ill behaved horseman, and r ‘ Th( Times,” taking the matter uj in a leading article, vigorously denounced the rudeness of th< rider, alleged to be the Dufc of Cumberland. On thj allegations proving false thi was followed by another articl by way of apology, in whic occurred the phrase “Wi thundered out,” auu sue grandiloquence happening t catch the public fancy, th name “ Thunderer ” follow.e as a matter of course. . ■