News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43333, 4 June 1908, Page 1

News Items.

For every ton of gold coin-in circulation there are 16 tons pf silver. - «,<$

Civet, ambergris, and musk ‘ ' are all most offensive in odour in their raw state.

It is calculated that the ! people of Great Britain spend £11,000,000 a year in charity. ■

The largest park in Europe is the Prater of Vienna. It area- J is nearly 80 square miles. Comrie, in Scotland, and M Colchester, in England, are the |1 two British centres of earthquake disturbance. >

The cost of the raw materials • | of a violin is about 4s 6d. The jj ! “ Saiubuc Stradivari,” dated ! 1716, sold for £2OOO. , j

The King .has a colleotionj'of v-i 170 curious walking-sticks, 1 One is made from one of the>'.3 piles of old London Bridge.

Mamma :• “ I’m at you, Johnny I” Johnny (thoughtfully): ‘I wonder if you’ll ever get used to me, mamma ! You’re always - j surprised at me.”

Pedlar : “ Would you like i to buy a motto, “ May our : home be blessed ’ .\ Mrs Scrann (who keeps a ; v | boarding-house): “No; but if you have any reading, ‘ Curb your appetite,’ ‘ Eat in | moderation,’ or 1 Gluttony is a f sin,’ I’U take half-a-dozen.’’ , English Traveller (to Irish. railway porter labelling gage): “Don’t you k4pp i brush for that work, porter ?” Porter : “ Shure, yer hon* . % our, our tongues is the only j] insthruments we’re* allowed but they’re asy kep’ wet yer honner !” (Hint taken,) =l:3

Have you never noticed how dark and dirty looking the ; "4 linoleum has become ? Did it ;■ never strike you, when using | the polishing paste, that you are rubbing in the dirt and' 41 polishing on top ? Tan-01, ‘ which is a cream put up in 4 bottles, cleans the .linoleum first and afterwards ■ • % Just try it and you will soon || notice its superiority to pastes. Sold in bottles everywhere.— * Advt. ■'.-I

A gentleman went into a fancy shop to buy something. || As it was early, the shopkeeper 4 had to go upstairs to get his . I cash-box in order to procure - '>| some change. . Before doing so he went into the little room next to the shop and whispered to his little son, ' “ Watch the gentleman that he don’t steal anything.” Then, bringing the boy out, /I sat him on the counter. As soon as the shopkeeper returned, the child sang but, ill I “Pa, be didn’t steal any thinly I I watched him !” | ||| j It costs less money, it needs 1 less labour, it gives more 'M 'satisfaction to use Tan*ol for : cleaning and polishing linoleum, j and furniture than any other 4| : preparation. This statement /Jg| has been verified in thousands of homes where it is in con- | staut use. If you have any ; doubt about it try it yourself. 3 If you want the best results-' then get the best article, which, .| is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01, 4 It is sold in bottles eyerywhere.—Advt. ; 4l