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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 10 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

The protestants in the world | now number 180,000,000. I There are about 20,000 deaf mutes in the United Kingdom. The annual cost of clothing the Life Guards per man is £7 9s 3d. The salt tax in China yields a revenue of nearly £2,000,000 a year. | It may not be generally I known that four men in every I six use tobacco. It requires 15,200 stenographers to do the office business of New York city. At the present time there are 21,000 labourers at work on the Panama Canal. French school children are taught fire maxims, as a primary preventative measure. The Chinese make candles of a vegetable wax, the product of the candleberry-tree The Emperor of Germany has over 1000 different suits of clothes and 800 pairs of trousers. Marble is still quarried in the way employed over 2,000 years ago, when the Parthenon was built. There are 7,000 people in Paris who are employed in the preparation of human hair for the market.

Norway is the most sober country in the world. Its laws against drunkenness are very stringent. In France physiciaus sapid chemists cannot collect their bills if they allow them to staud Over two years. As the result of excesses of } births over deaths, Germany’s population increases at the rate of about 900,000 a year. In snowy weather in Sweden and Norway small trusses of straw and hay are tied to the lamp-posts for the birds. Although India annually produces over 2,000,000 tons of sugar cane, it imported last year over five million pounds worth of sugar. Stockings were first worn iu Italy, in the year 1,100. Before that period it was customary to swathe the feet and legs iu bandages.