News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 8 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

There are now over 250,000 words in the English language acknowledged by he best authorities, or about 70,000 more than in the German,French, Spanish, and Italian languages combined.

A recentsurvev has established the number of glaciers—or ice rivers—in the Alps at 1155, of which 249 have a length of more than four and' three-quar-ter miles. The French Alps 144 glaciers, those of Italy 78, Switzerland 471, and Austria 462.

An incident that has often been used in fiction has occurred at Derby. While crossing the railway line there one Saturday a platelayer named Bates got his foot caught in the joints, and before he could release it he was struck by au engine and badly injured.

In Iceland men and women are in every respect political equals. The nation, which numbers about 70,000 people, is governed by representatives elected by men and women together.

It has been statedby the Com-, mittee of Old-age Pensious that “ the price of an ounce of c shag’ tobacco a week put by at 25 is sufficient to ensure au old-age pension of 5s a week at 65. ”

Iu Paris, out of 2,700,000 residents, it is now calculated " that one in 18, or 150,000,1ive on charity, with a tendency crime. Iu Loudon the proportion is one iu 30.

Every year a layer of the entire sea, I4ft. thick, is taken, up into the clouds; and the windu bear their burden into the lands and the water comes down in rain upon the fields, to How back through rivers.

Mr. Llovd-George has staled that the amount of conscience* money received by the British Treasury during the financial year 1907*8 amounted to £641 less than hi If that of the previous year.

! An unusual double wedding took place recently at Yinkovits ii Hungary, where a widower , of 46 married a girl of 18 at the same time tliar, his .son, aged 22, married the girl’s mother, a widow aged 37.

! Sheet iron has just been rolled so thin at a certain iron mills that 15,000 sheets are required to make a single inch in thick*

ness; light shines as readib through one of these sheets as through ordinary tissue paper.

; The camera’s estimated re' cord is 100,000,000 stars, bu one astronomer, it is said, is t< attempt an actual couuf, usia< . a microscopic gauge iu goi ; over the several hundred platei each with 20,000 to 200,0.0.1 1 stars. !

, Maiden-hair ferns, whet j grown in living rooms, ,oftei rest during the winter mouths jlf they show signs of doing sc jdo not stimulate them wit' liquid manure hut allow thei jto go gradually to rest, as tbe'i | fronds are always difficult i ! keep green on the plant.