News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 12 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

Denmark has an old maids’ insurance company.

The ordinary person’s lungs contaiu 76,000,000 air cells. >1 Nearly 50,000 horses were used for fo.od in Paris last year.

Whirlwinds in Arabia will excavate pits in the sand 250ft.' deep.

There is one policeman to every 775 persons in England and Wales.

borne of the olive-trees in Turkey are held to be over 1000 years old.

During every minute of the world’s 24 hours 3,000,000 matches are struck.

Cloves come very largely from Zanzibar, where the trees thrive remarkably well.

More public clocks are displayed in New York than in London and Paris combined.

Yinegar is mentioned ■in the Egyptian records as a medicine in the 10th century B.C.

The temperature of Egypt is gradually being lowered, owing to the irrigation of the country.

There have been 27 cases of insanity in the Bavarion Boyal Family during the last 100;

years.

It is estimated that of the 6.000,000 inhabitants of London 1,500.000 were born in the country.

The marriage ceremony of a Japanese bride is not complete until she washes the feet of the bridegroom. Of domestic animals, sheep come first as cold resisters. Goats and pigs take second and third places respectively. The largest needle manufactory in the world is at Bedditcb, Worcestershire. Over seventy illion are made there week'y. mTbe facts of heredity shew that, as a rule, the male takes the pecularities of the father, and the female those of the mother. In the United Slates there are 30 towns or villages named Berlin, 21 named Hamburg, 23 named Paris, and 13 named - London.

The ordinary stipend of cur ates of the Church of England who have be.n 25 years in holy orders is, according to a Church society, only £llß a year. A new rat-trap may now be obtained The bait, a piece of cheese, is attached to an electric | wire, and no sooner does the unfortunate rodent take a bite than he receives a fa ml shock.

When spectacles v <• first ininvented aud came in ■> use in Italy, women were forbidden to year them, on the ground that, being very striking ornaments, they would contribute to fern ilo vanity.

In the last 12 years the total number of Japanese-owned ships has increased from 1529 to 6518, and the gross tonnage from 383,163 to 1,394,745 tons. Of ships over 100 tons the in* crease is .six-fold.

Sinoe the earthquake and fbe at San Erancisco 9,800 buildings have been erected aud 4,one others remodelled. The dis aster destroyed 28,000 buildings.