News Items.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43335, 9 June 1908, Page 1

News Items.

A crow will destroy 700,000 insects every year. _ ■* •• "j? In Abyssina, the house and its oontents belong to the | wife.

A single oyster in one season will produce 1,000,000 young | oysters. /

A disease-proof potato has % been introduced into France | from Uruguay. * Ho less than 1,132,257 of i Italy’s town population above j| the age of fifteen are illiterate.#

Campbell Island, of which 0 the area at a rough estimate is i 47,000 acres at present carries itj 5600 sheep. ‘ A’J

The dome of the Palais de -,'j Justice, in Brussels, is made ;ifj of papier-mache, and weighs # sixteen tons. . ' {<§

The badge of office of the :p Lord Mayor of London,# contains N diamonds valued at • i £120,000. v • M x •/. ,v-3s Spain and Russia are the ;S| only European countries which, produce more wool than they | consume, 'J

The wool production ; for |f| Victoria for last season was the v | greatest in the history of ,the ’# 5tate—93,082,3411b, valued at ; ; '4| £3,800,000.

Among the trophies captured by the Japanese during the war with Russia were 50,000,000 : rounds of rifle ammunition, 130,000 rifles, and 700 guns. ,

In 1907 the dairying in** # dustry of Hew South Wales # yielded. £3,400,000. Poultry, bees, and rabbits yielded £1,845,000. " . # Rev. Angus Bethune, Vicar M of Seaham, who has just'"# attained the age of 97, is believed to be 'the oldest j| clergyman in England still H fulfilling active duties. He v | was ordained in 1841, and has held his present charge since 1859. ■

It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives more J satisfaction to use Tan-ol for Ifl cleaning and polishing linoleum , J and furniture than any other ' l preparation. This statement ? has been verified in thousands • '< of homes where it is in con- , • % stant use. If you have any \ doubt about it try it yourself. .-s If you want the best results l ‘f then get the best article, which 3 is the cheapest, viz., Tan-01. It is sold in bottles everywhere. —Advt.

The death plant of Java ha s 1$ flowers which continually give ' § off a perfume so powerful as to ‘f overcome, if inhaled for any 1 1 length of time, a full-grown man, and which kills all forms of insect life that oome under v its influence. According to recent data there are now in Germany J 4 116 cities with special schools for backward children. The i total number of these schools is 205. and the number ‘a£fos pupils is 13,100. Berlin has % thirty of these accessory schools.

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 ; J are rubbing in the dirt and polishing on top ? Tan-ol 9 '■% which is a cream put up iu i bottles, cleans the linoleum first and polishes afterwards. Just try it and you will soon ■■■§ notice, its superiority to pastes} Sold in bottles $ Advt.