News Item

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43340, 20 June 1908, Page 1

News Item

Berlin uses every year near!; 500,000 tons of English anc Welsh coal. .

: Some of the ice fields 6i Greenland are said to be half a mile in thickness. The first London ’bus started from Paddington to the Bank on Saturday, July 4, 1829. The largest Bible in the world is a manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vatican, weighing 3201 b. . p 1 • "'-iM i! In 827 Winchester claimed to be the capital of; England, and so it remained for two centuries. ■ :-J

The Welsh Eisteddfod is thebiggest opien air concert in the world. At least\2o,ooo people| attend it every year.

A memorial is to be erected; in one of the streets of Hew York in honor of Dixon, the; negro pugilist. It will take the form of a stone fountain, and| will be the first monument ever; erected in America to a boxer, f

Hospital Saturday collections! made in London last year ; reached a total of £26,627, and; of this £24,437 was distributed,! at the Mansion House last; month. Canon Fleming said that working men had in 34| years given £400,000 to hospital work through ( the< fund: :

Dr. Brandt, a German ex-1 plorer, who has just returned! from the East, states that while ] he was in Central Asia he ate J certain species of flowers which were the most delicious food he--ever tasted, and can, he thinks, •=' only be compared to the ambrosia of the gods.

The City of London keeps up :] 10 parks, maintained out of| City revenue, and the “ met*]] age ” on grain. These parks cost £341,493 to . obtain, and ' £7500 a year to keep hp. . Eppiug Forest is the largest ; ; ; it has 5552 acres. The small- : est is St. Paul’s Churchyard one acre in extent.

It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives more 1 satisfaction to use Tan*ol for] cleaning and polishing linoleum and furniture than any other* preparation. This statement has been verified in thousands of where 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.

A daguerreotype of a young man and girl taken from the , body of a soldier on the battle - field of Chancellorsville during the American Civil war has i been returned to the girl in the fpicture, Mrs T. W ; Stowe, of. 1 Milford, Conn., after the finder had searched for her for 35 t i vears.

! Have you never noticed how dark and dirty looking the linoleum has become ? Did it never strike you, wheu using ;the polishing paste,, that you tare rubbing in the dirt and' j polishiog on top ? Tan-01, J which is a' cream put up in • bottles, cleans the linoleum j first and polishes afterwards. [Just try it and you will soon 1 notice its superiority to pastes jSold in bottles everywhere.— Advt. ■ i