News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43375, 19 September 1908, Page 1

News Items

Guide-books for travellers are an English invention. The squirrel slaughter of Russia amounts to 25,000,000 per year.

Statistics go to prove that school-teachers are, on an aver, age long-lived. Within 12 miles of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, there were 391 railway stations. According to Egyptian records the first trumpet was made by Osiris. On many ancient monuments emblems have been showing the use of the trumpet in war times.

It has been calculated by a German physician that the diseases to which the human frame is liable amount to more than 11Q0. The eye alone can be affected in 48 different ways. A temperature of 4000 deg. to 5000 deg. can be produced only between the carbon points of a# electric arc-light. The next hottest place in the world is in the crucible of an electric fur" nace.

After a carousal at the Neuilly Ifafe a man named Roche betted his companions that he would throw ..himself in front of a : motor car. He won his bet, but there .are ,mbhopes of his recov® ery.

Mr. Edward So them, the American actor, alleging.incompatibility of temperament, 4s suing for a divorce from his wife and leading lady, Mkft Virginia Harned, to whom he has been married 12 years*

Germany is experimenting to determine whether or not a vertical shaft of light can be j seen a greater distance than a | horizontal flash, with the idea ">f so equipping its lighthouses, such proves to be the case.

me of the most beautiful t 1 are got from coal tar. /V rmmK r most delicate „ „ h are obtained from i. n ‘ to which the same- , , « u < ! are &Isoiu3e6«. ®^ 01 ' a sacc^ • matter m-,any degrees sweeter j than sugar*. *