News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43373, 15 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

A United States Consular £9 report calls attention to a stopper for sodawater that is in use at Calcutta. Th©|H| “ novelty ” is the common ball stopper. The French President receives 9 a salary of £25,000 a house tO : : KIS live in, and allowances amounfeaMß ing to £26,000 more. term of office is seven y ears and he may be - '|fl9 The expedition which wedp9 to the Yakutsk district to fefchjHS the remains of the mammoth ?H|| which was discovered there has:j9|| found that its trunk is intact.; BE This is a unique discovery. Easton Maudit, a' hamlet in 99 Northamptonshire, owned en« tirely by the Marquess of North- H amptou, has just given f a remarkable pageant, in which |9§| 85 out of 130 inhabitants took 9 part. Zioc coffins are largely used:|Hß in Vienna, but the more si ve ones are made of copper, and cost as much as £sGo,||H| while a bronze and copper coffin ;B|| recently made for a archduke cost over £IOOO. . ‘ -^B It has been estimated that 188 u two persons playing dominoes 10 hours a day and making four ■& moves a minute could continue jBEj 118,000 years without exhaust- : iBSI ing all the combinal ions of the ■ game, the total of which is InE 248,528,211,840. ” H Chinamen have a way tricking hens, so that they assist BH in the hatching of fish. Fish eggs are carefully placed in an :911 egg shell, which is then sealed'lyHE and put under an hen. In a few days the is warmed into life, and :th9;;|BH content 3 of the shell are then BE cast, iuto a shallow pool, 'pheru||j9|i the sunshine completes work. HH The great salt desert in theifflE northern part of Persia extends 4iß|f *OO miles from east to west and 499 150 miles from north to south, B The desert is a vast dhji-shaped depression, the central poll ion ||9B| lying from 1000 ft. to lower than the margin, and near its western dm is a salf bed' whose area iis 440 square miles. /Bit •—— * —-—■———■- . BH