News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43339, 18 June 1908, Page 1

News Items

There is a woman’s prison in Eoumania that has only women officials.

The giraffe and armadillo are voiceless, having no vocal cords. ' ' ’

When the lion reaches the age of two years, it, is able to strangle or pull down a horse or an ox.

The Channel Islands are the oldest appanage of the British Drown. They have been British since 1066.

Canada’s trade for the fiscal year ended March amounted to £127,678,058, ,being an ia> crease over the previous year of £5,164,788,

The tea gardens of Northern India extend over 500,000 acres, and they produce 190,000,0001 b. of tea per annum at a profit of about £2O per acre. ' '

Fifty thousand packets of flower seeds have been distributed by the Canadian Pacific Eailway to trainmen and section men all over the lines of the company.

It is curious that, while an officer is charged only 5s for the privilege of taking up a commission in the Navy, the stamp for a commission in the Army or the Marines is £1 10s.

The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris has been presented with a collection of all the prospectuses and circulars which have been distributed in the streets of Paris for the last 50 years.

Bakera are more than normally subjeot to premature death. In the flour there is a very small microbe, which has its effect on the teeth, and attacks the drums of the ears, causing deafness.

Great Britain has more doctors, proportionately speaking, thon any other country in Europe. To every 100,000 persons Great Britain has 150 medical men, Germany 48, Switzerland 42, and Russia 15.

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 and polishing on top ? Tan-ol which is a cream put up in bottles, cleans the linoleum- ; first and polishes afterwards

Just try it and you will soon notice its superiority to pastes Sold in bottles , everywhere.— Advt. -

The most costly book in the Royal library at Stockholm is a Bible, and there is not another just like it in the world. In weight and size alone it is unique. It is said that 160 asses’skins were used for its parchment leaves. Each page falls but an inch short of a yard in length. The width of the leaves is 20in. The covers are solid planks 4in- thick. It costs less money, it need? less labour, it gives more satisfaction to use Tau-ol for cleaning and polishing linoleum and furniture than any other preparation. This statement has been verified in thousands of homesitfhere it is in constant use. If you have any doubt about it try it yourself. If you want the best results then get the best article, which is the cheapest, viz., Tan 01. It is sold in bottles everywhere. —Advt.