News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43328, 21 May 1908, Page 1

News Items.

Cartridges are used as monl in Abyssinia. a I A mole will eat 20,0(1 earthworms in the Course of i year. 1 Algerian vineyards vproduJ more grapes to the acre thal any'others. I Teakwood, or Indian ; ball will sink in water. It is onl of the hardest of woods. I Nuremburg contains morl than 1700 houses which werj built before the 17th century. Ice forming on telegraph wires sometimes increase theii weight no less than 900 pel cent. Recent Admiralty experij ments prove that coal keeps best under water, particularly] sea-water. A/c is usually supposed to stand for “ account.” Thi6 is| mistake. It stands for “a$ count current.” The inscriptions upon British ooins have always been an Latin, except during the Commonwealth—l64B-1660., -1

Wheat came originally from the centra} land of Thibet; where its representative yet •exists-, as grass - with mealy seeds. '54 A series of smoking concerts, at which beer and tobacco are] provided free, have been by the Yicar; of Esseiy and his churchwardens. The first one was a decided success| the schoolroom being filled by working men. The mineral output for; Southern Rhodesia for -the month of December last were ajjJ follows : Gold, 53,1130 z, silver, 12,5380 z. ; lead, 72;tons ; coal, 8052 tons ; copper, three tons; wolframite, sixf tons ; chrome . ore, 280 tons || scheelite, four tons. The,sinking of shafts through! wet ground can now be success*! fully accomplished by the aict? of artificial freezing. The! ground is i hardened in this] manner to prevent a suddeninrush of water, which might have disastrous effects. 45 TX . -151 Have you never noticed how dark and dirty , looking the! linoleum has become ? Did it! never strike you, when using the polishing paste, that you! are rubbing in the dirt anil polishing on top? Tan-ol,! which- is a cream put up in bottles,, ] cleans the linoleurrTfirst and polishes afterwards „ Just try it and you will soon notice its superiority to pastes.- ? Sold in bottles everywhere. —% Advt.

' For every 10,000 inhabitants London has 27 cabs and five ’buses. Paris, on the other hand, has 48 cabs for the same number of people but only two ’buses. Naples has 55 cabs per--10,000. Genoa holds the res cord for ’buses. It has ten for every' 4 0,000.

It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives 7 more:) satisfaction to use Tau*ol for cleaniug aud polishing linoleum and furniture than auy other! preparation. ; This statement has been verified in thousands of homes where it is in con-i| staut use. If you have any 1 doubt about it try it yourself.;! If you waut the best result.s ; then get the best artiele, wlifcllv is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01. It is sold in bottles -every*; ; where. —Advt.