News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43351, 18 July 1908, Page 1

News Items

Sculptors say that the perfect- i ly-proportioned mouth, is three.; quarters of the length of the i nOSe. ■

The manufacture of some of the finest French tapestry is so slow, that' an artist cannot produce more than a quarter of a square yard in a year. ( Tom Codman, the last of the postboys who carried the mails by coaoh between Ipswich andr Yarmouth, has just died at Yarmouth. He was 85 years old.

In the sandy deserts of Arabia | whirling winds sometimes excavate pits 200 ft. in depth, and | extending down to the harder; | stratum on which the great bed •; of sand rests. Hypnotism was resorted to as 4 a last resort to save the life of . Mrs. 0. L. Massinger, the wife of a physician of Bridgeport* . Connecticut, whb suffered from hiccoughs for three weeks. \ The Marquis of Bath has | undertaken the cost of the renovation of the White Horse* which is cut out of the turf on a spur of the chalk downs on the Bratton road, just outside the town of Westbury. Professor Frederick Sefton Delmer, an Australian, formerly of Melbourne University and afterwards of Koenigsberg Uni Y versity, has been appointed .: j Professor of English at the | Berlin University.

Government statistics show that the valve of the buildings erected in 51 Canadian cities and large towns during 1907 was £11,717.297, an increase of about £500,000 as .compared with the returns for 1906.

At Washington recently Mr* Joseph Cannon, Speaker of the House of .Representatives, who is an inveterate smoker, was presented by the Association of Pianoforte Dealers* with a cigar which cost £6 to make.

Have you never/ noticed how f dark and dirty looking the has become ? Did it I nejpißtrike you, when using : ;v 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' 4 Just try it and you will soon notice its superiority to pastes; Sold in bottles everywhere.— | Advfc ’ }■ A James I, parcel-gilt goblet weighing a little over five ounces was sold at Christie’s London, 3 for £410, ; or nearly £79- per i ounce. A Charles 11. silver r I tankard changed hands for £255 J and a silver casket of the sane • M reign for £258. ; Some of the wooden churches I \ of Norway are fully 7QO years . • old, and are still '\in; au ax-.-' Xfcelleut state of preservation. Their timbers have # resisted the frosty ana '"Mi Arctic winters because they. f have |)een repeatedly coated I with tar. Vv'-'-, ; . , . &S

It costs less money, it needs less labour, it gives most satisfaction to use, Tau-ol for ' cleaning and polishing linoleum and furniture than any other ■ 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. - If you want' the best results then get the best article, which is the cheapest, viz., Tari 01., -. It is sold in bottles^,‘every- 1 •wherp. —Advf.-.. \V"‘ For Ladies, Belts > Laces, and Ribbons, a large variety at less than Auckland prices. Try Gahagan’s Economic. \ '