News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43324, 12 May 1908, Page 1

News Items

—+. , ■ Abyssinia has an arm! 70,000 men. .>» Deer frequently eat ■ antlers after they shed thetp! The South Kensin! Museum (London) covers! acres of land. i Vtt! The average man n! 16001 b. weight of food! [sustain him for a year.. ! The- first English Teml ance hall was built in Bil ford, Yorkshire, in 183/7. I An average of 74£pers| vis;t the reading-room biJ|| British Museum daily.; h§|| Nicaragua, with 50,(1 square miles of territory,-'! only. 161 miles of railway" 1 The oldest known Engli picture is one of' Chaucl painted on panel in the ya 4380. m Welbeck, Duke of Pen land’s place, has a park* ti miles in circumference, ,wi 41 lodges. ; ; _ . . .. f Bathing before breakfast/ dangerous unless a . bup of t! or some light food ,is fid taken. ' - v-v-The brine-springs at Droi wich are richer in salt than ap other water in the world, —eve than the Dead Sea. h®

More than 6000 women ail employed in the Russia* Secret Service. Some }draH £2OOO a year, or even more.il The heaviest.knownsubstancß iridium, a grey metal used foB tipping gold pens. It is wortß £2lB per pound. \iß The Goldsmiths’ Compah m has decided to grant £lo,oo® to Cambridge University foB the purpose of Endowing » readership in metallurgy. 1 |! A well-to-do merchant 6! Hamburg called at an under! taker’s and boughr a v coffinl which he ordered to be sent tm his address. He then wen! home and shot himself. ! At the Medical Conference ini Paris Dr. Desnoyer asserted! that sloped handwriting wall normal and regular, but thajl upright writing was a sign >c| perversity and deformity. The Kaiser has announced his intention of presenting#!) the museum at Munich a model' of the new battleship The model will be' 3ft.;/iit length, and will cost more tbaii £4OOO. According to “ Mitchelffl Newspaper Press Directory,’’: there are now published in the United Kingdom alone fewer than 2353 of which London contribute! 404, including 31 dailies. : |

Zinc coffins are largely used n Vienna, but the more ex pensive ones are made off jopper, and cost as much ■af S3OO, while a bronze a copper coffin recently made*/for-; i Kussian archduke cost oWr ; £IOOO. -V;-, A Massachuse' ts society has presented Governor Guild, Boston, with a protest against# seeping in further solitary; ionfiument a murderer named Pomeroy, who has suffered tbaff| punishment for thirty - four* pearsFor Liadies, Nec.kwear, Belts-' Laces, and Ribbons, a large variety:;; it less than Auckland prices. Tty :: j-ahagan's Economic, 1 ’: <i|