News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43380, 1 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

Nuts form the principal diet of the Somali soldier. i| There are 19,000 miles of railways in Mexico. Native trees are used as telegraph poles in parts of Java. 'M The report of a cannon has been heard over 140 miles awhy| New York’s Chinatown has a population of nearly " 50G( Orientals, One quarter of all the people born die before six years; onehalf before 16. If the wind be favourable, j fox can scent a man a dsarter oi a mile away. Between 30,000 and’ 40,C0Q tortoises are imported into Great Britain annually. Streets ruuning due nor tIJ and Souih are stated to be the healthiest. The linen industry in Irelanc gives employment to about 70,000 people. Sixty-six million bronze coins were issued from the London Mint last year. The chance of one finger-priu being exactly like another is 1 iu 64,000,000,0(10.;; Out of Roumauiu's 6,000,00( iuhibitants, only oue ini, threi can read and write. Blankets are named afte Thorp as Blanket, who first starfei making them iu England it 1705. For every 100,000 person.® ■ England has 150 medical meu Germany 48, Switzerland 42 and Russia 15. 1 Tu 1805 there were only 5 hospitals in the Uuited Kingd* n against over 500 at the preset}i time. j Yale University boasts th | largest skull of any prehisfori ! land animal. It is 9ft. ldi| ? and Oft. broad. « In the French schools i: Algiers and Tunis, the Freii| and‘Arabic boys .-it tog thgi ! but out of school they fio' , mix. : i In a recently built Italia steamship, there is a speck cabin with a denial put fit. dentist will be carried in tjh vessel. "■% 1 'fere is a lighthouse to ever i 14 miles of coast in Euglau jl. t 1 every 34 miles .in Ireland, a ; p to every 39 ipilesjin Scotland,! Firemen in Berlin wej water tight jackets, wliidl_M filled from the hose, and affot ;a great protee'ion fmn tl ilatnt s. " I In London . more fires occi on Salurday than any other dt of the reek, and .more in: Augtf ' and December than in any oth m mllis j There are aimo.-t 0000 yrjnu employed iuaudab -ui the oiffl j mines iu .the North of Eusd i j but uoue of the number woi below the surface. | The largest town clock, in | | world is in the tower of Giasgb j U iversity. The hammer weig 11201 b., the pendulum 3null jqpd the whole clock about a t, /.-and a half.