News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43385, 7 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

The copper production of the world amounted to 713,000 tons last year. Of this, the United States supplied 421,000 tons. Some of the Chinese newspapers are printed in a roll, so that, when a portion has been read, it may be torn off and thrown away, i Harps, with strings intact, have been found in Egyptian tombs, and' have given forth distinct sounds after a lapse of 3000 years or so. The bones of the arms are long cylinders because in this shape they have the greatest strength with the least expenditure of material

The British Admirality has issued an order that officers in Home waters, No. 3 dress, are always to wear black boots, whether on board or on shore. ' There are no undertakers in Japan. When a person dies, it is the custom for his nearest relatives to put him iuto a coffin and bury him, and the mourning does not begin until after burial. Time was when the silver mines of Devon flourished exceedingly. So late as 1800 we |iear of 9000 tons of silver ore sent to South Wales for smelting. The mines are now discontinued, but there is plenty of silver there yet. A whale is capable of swim - ming 12 miles an hour. Nearly all the world’s asbestos is mined in Canada. Fifty pounds of ivory is the average yield of one elephant Fish live in the ocean at an ’ [ average depth of 3000 fathoms, ’ or 18,000 ft. <)f all white nations, the Americans are the biggest fruit eaters. The sun daily raises 164 cubi miles of water from the world’s oceans. A stamp duty of 10s. is collected on the appointment of a gamekeeper. Ten million pounds worth of property is yearly lost by fire in > England alone. It is estimated that 26,000,000 boys and girls are attending Sunday schools throughout the world.