News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 6 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

Londoners use, on an averaig 34 gallons of water per day. I Only one pair of eyes in every 15 is perfect, says a well-known ocoulist. 'k

A camel can carry three time! as heavy a load as a horse li capable of doing.

The English Bar has a mem* bership of about 10,000, but only 2000 are practising. The best time to eat an apple for medicinal purposes is just before going to bed.

The City of Mexico has the highest death-rate of any capita 1 in the civilised world. A monthly postal came' service has recently been estaV lishedin the Sahara Desert. In place of horses, bullocks or oxen are generally employe? on the farms in Bolivia. ■ , Half a gallon of train oil ai hour will calm the most boisterous sea around a vessel. | Last year, 872,515,75| passengers were carried by the London County Counciltramcars. Light-haired people, itis s§|| as a rule, live longer than those having dark hair. The largest artificial body oj water is the lake formed-by th£ Assouan dam across the Nile. Rubber tyres have three Natural enemies—light, heat and oil—-all three of which should be guarded against. An army of grasshoppers ha invaded : Algeria. The las invasion some years ago cos the Government £368,000.

A regular trade in live rattle] snakes is carried on in Texas Museums and menageries ar principally supplied. The Beefeaters, the King’ bodyguard on State occasions consist of a captain, six othc officers, and 130 yeomen. | Hydrangeas require a gret deal of water while they ar growing ; but the supply shoul be reduced as cold weathf approaches. __ :>■ There are 240,000 differei species of insects on e.irth ; som of these are so small that 40( of them are only equal to a gra: of sand. , ~ In Java there is an orchid, a the flowers of which open once, as if by the stroke of. 1 wand, and they also all with together. ( Of every man and wom| living kTihry-«&t—the —d'g'trrj'K j one out of two will live, a,ccqr . iug to the insurance tables, tot • 65 years of ago. The halancp-wlie/d of a wat says a jeweller, swings back a forth 300 times a minute, 18,0 i times in one hour, 432,000 tin in a day, and *157,680,0 ! times in a year. | In the current number of t I Bavarian 1 ‘ Railway Magazine 1 the railway authorities advert for 3G vans and pa jseusrer car ages, which have been missi for some time. The United Kingdom u most tea, the United States j the greatest coffee drink Germany leads in the consun .. m of beer, Russia of distil lt . : t3, and France of wiues. spin. ’ i.