News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43372, 12 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

The largest oil painting in tSil world is one by Tintoretto" enl titled u Paradise. ” It in height and 84ft. in widthj and may now he seen the Doge’s Palace Venice. •;> < A man of 70 has renewed Hia finger-nails no fewer than 180 times. Taking the total .length! of each nail as half an inch, thij| total length grown on each fin,4 ger has been 7ft. 9in. ;

A professor of Stuttgart red commends music as; the best agent for making the hair. growJ and cites the luxuriant loolfffl which adorn the hoatjs of pro-' fessional musicians as proof. 1 America can claicjC another record, this latest achievement being at Denver, where the cheer which greeted the mention of Mr Bryan’s name lasted, we | are told, one hour and 28 minifies. • l ; J „ 7|

Military service under four I British Sovereigns is the record I of Colonel Johu Bowerj of Drox- I ford, Hampshire, who entered I on his 100th year last month. He entered the Army in 1825. ~|| The longest word jin actual I use in a modern language is a I German word descriptive of the 1 trade of an apothecary. It is J “ Gesundheitswidorherstellung- J smittelzusammenmischungsver- f(l] haltnisskundiger. ” - ' ' 1 To test the new pier which I the Portsmouth Corporation has J just erected at Southsea, ,1010-1 men were paid sixpence eaoh lolj run up and down the structure.'! It was officially stated that tie pier stood the test well. « f - Pour men at work on a scaf- l fold near Benues ( Prance j were struck by lightening. One offfi (hem named Renault, instinctively caught hold of the hoist, I and at that moment lightning 1 struck the building, and Renault was electrocuted. " . '>M

Barbers, in the early days of'lS the* Christian ora, voie not permitted to talk while a patron. Indeed silence was s so much appreciated by persons •% while under the barber’s hands A that mutes were preferred f>r this service. • ‘*ll