News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43381, 3 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

In Poland it is an offence tjj speak Polish in any public re,« sort. t

The first meerschaum pipe was made in 1723, and is now in the Pestb museum.

There is in Westminster Abbey one wooden tomb—that of Aymer de Valence, cousin of Edward 1,

No one in Saxony is allowed to shoe horses unless he haspassed a public examination, and is duly qualified.

Copenhagen, in Denmark, has a larger deer park than any other city in the world. It

covers an area of 4200 acres.

The largest choir in the world is that of the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City. It consists of 350 voices, all beautifully 1 trained.

New York has more asylums, Hospitals, and other institutions for the relief of human suffering than any other city in the world.

The willow is one of the most adaptable of plants. If a shoot is broken off and stuck in the ground it will almost always take root and gro v.

Statistics recently complied in regard to German University life show that men are discontinuing medicine as a profession, while women are tnrning to it.

The herring is more largely used as au article of food than

any other fish. More than 250, 000 tons of herrings, worth fl

£1.200,000, are lauded on the coasts of Great Britian every

year.

Duriug the 12 months frcm April I, 1907, to March 31, 1908, the number of children in London County Council schools who art taught to swim was 30,396. The boys uumbered 20,609 and the girls 9787.

According to the new regu- .•« lations on the Prussian railwajs | no one may open both windows • of a carriage without previously g obtaining the consent of all the f J| passengers.

A special set of postage stamps has been issued to celebrate the Quebec Tercentenary. These stamps are all larger than the ordinary ones, to allow room for j double heads and fine historical I pictures. 1 Experiments made by | scientists show that butter keeps ! best when preserved with from !2to 5 per cent, of salt. If the ! proportion of salt is higher than ! that the results are less satisfacv tor y*

Americans in England have, subscribed £134 towards the cost of restoring the church tower at Purleigh, Essex, where Lawrence Washington, greatgrandfather of General George Washington, was formerly re&tqr.

A wqgian who is seeking a divorce in the Nebraska courts has had 15 husbands, of whom six are still alive. the hearing of the case <*be had to refer to a written list of jhe,r spouses, as she could not remember all their names.