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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 31 October 1908, Page 1

News Items

Honey is a good" substftSte fg for codliver oil. In Japan there are about ftro hundred earthquakes e$»SjM year. The eity of Mexico hdfc highest death-rate of J capital in the civilised world, ‘ A shop-assistant or cannot be legally compelled ’W■*?.s pay for any article accidentally || broken. ’ A deaf and dumb person Hriwv \i is fairly expert at finger4ang\i« : age can speak about forty •’three ;•% words a minute. One-fifteenth of the inhabitants of Spain are nobles. *.;*s•;! A person bom in the Kingdom, although the parent may be aliens, is a subject. If the starch sticks, put a | cloth over the collar for a Jew >; minutes. Then proceed with the ironing. pߧ| There are 800 public baths is - Tokio, Japan. x |jg§ There are still 20,0Qfi$)O0? square miles of the edwlffji surface that have not been explored. . gjf f: This, ladies and | the celebrated trick mule, 1 Rgtf m : ■ said the clown, as the beast w»« < being led into the ring. ** many years of efort, % am to say that I can make him dot anything he wants to. ” Bakers in Broken Hill. ijfJL'/ W., after five months trial. #‘4; day working, have reverted the old Style of night work. People have been knowb to wear a potato with a hole feqrcstl through it, like a finger-ring, as a cure for '.rfett44i matism, while others carry potato in their pockets for the , same purpose. The baya or weaver-bird M | India spends much of its timfcili .catchfig mammoth &di|g| which ,it fastens to the side of jits .pest moist clay. On p dark qigjit the ba/a’s nest | I ilooks %e^ ( electric lamp. The velocity cjf the wind can ,be reckoned by ‘noting the | musical pirch qf { jh£ sound >• given out when winjls bljowOacross a stretched principal eJerqeutsQp which-the calculation is ipasefl are’ me diameter of flm WP temperature of tfie air. i Marriages by proxy are con- 4 tracted to this day in Holkna, : i ; and are mostly .ftotqbflpen who, havjng g<P&-§ f-.alrodMprefevtomarry.th.e girls fifhey .behind ;tkem ,in ml? convenient .manner .rather than go to it'be,expense aufi probable inconvenience ,<qf returning to : Holland ;fpr of the ■ ordinary carriage soletninsation. Bachehw ape piore Jjrppp to dyspepsia vthw ( The cause is assigned tp the,lgpt • %t bae!?elors so ottep ,e?t alope J h % .their »» *#»»§ cheerful conversation ,*®- di * gestion. A consul. from the Washington Uiureap of Manufactures states that tfce of merchandise .from the United States for the 11 months ending May aggregated in value 038,182, the largest in value in the history of die nation. What is claimed to be the smallest electric motor in tin world is in the possession uf& Texas electrician and watchmaker, who made it as a scarfpin. Itweighs onepenny weight and three grains, and is run by a current from a small silver chloride battery. ilffl