News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43368, 5 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

♦ * ' • “ Pale ale” was introduced y§ into England in the reign of y Queen Anne. v -

The air of the Swiss Alpsis’ ; y free from microbes at an eleva* tion of 2000 ft.

Silver is being used .mixed ,|| with lead, for repairing the ropf of Salisbury Cathedral. „, * |gg, '( A man respires— $1 draws in breath— 16 to 20 times If a minute, or 20,000 times a dajr The yacht Cicely, the only* English competitor, won tho King of Saxony’s prize of honor j|| at Kiel.

Sixty years ago there.were 1 150,000 children attending ! school in India. Now there are ‘over 4,000,000. In proportion, more female; prisoners have previous convictions against them than have male prisoners. Many of the Scottish lochs | are astonishingly deep, the depth of one —Loch Maree—being known to exeeei 1000 ft. The word “lieutenant ” means literally, “ holding the place ” ■ thus, a lieutenant-colonel h( lls the place of a colonel. The longest single span of telegraph wire in the world is in India, across the Kiver Kistnah. It measures over 6000ft. : in | length.

English people eat on art average 13 pounds of butter a head yearly. That is more than is eaten per head by any other nation. **S 'I

Nearly half the railway mile'* age of the globe ( 533,000 miles ) lies within the confines of the United State s of America, viz., 212,350 miles. A ton of water from the Atlantic Ocean, when evaporated yit h’s 8111). of salt ; a ton <>f Pacific water, 70. ; aml water from the Dead Sea, 1871 b

If is stated 1 ]tat iir Thomas Lipt( n intends* to issue .an .slier challenge for the American (Jtiji aud build a b>at to confirm with the NIW American ruing rule. *sa

Mrs L Patel's, Miramar, Wcl ingloil. N./.. Says : “I crt.ii sif ly re :o.uuiniid Cbiiuib-rla'a’s 0< lie, Cholera uti l Ilarihcui Kemedy to any.me Miff -I 111 Lf from pain* in the stomach. A f i\v d ty-; up imy little boy, aired six years w n snff lin r agony wiih Ibis comnl.iint. I only give, him a few (loses of Glrtn-ber-lnin’s C» !i •, Cholera and ltemedy ail I lio Was soon well and has nor. been troubled since. I think tbit vme l.y should be kei t ill every bona " Fur sale by\J\ B. Johnson, Agent. —A d»