News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 14 November 1908, Page 1

News Items

The longest bridge in the world crosses the Yellow Seay near Sangang, China. It * ;!f called the Lion Bridge, and itj length is five and a quarter miles. It is supported by 800 huge arches, is 70ft above the water, and is enclosed in an iron network.

A plug of tobacco by its moisture and softness will indicate the approach of a storm, a loose window cord will tighten up just before rain, and a pair of gloves ordinarily tight on the hands will become almost baggy on the approach of bad weather. The ground under the city of San Salvador is full of caverns of unknown depths. A man was once digging a well there. At the last stroke he gave with his pick the bottom fell out and he and his pick fell nobody knows where. At least, so u they say.” The hairdressing of ladies was an expensive affair in the 16th Century. Queen Elizabeths at one time was possessed of no fewer than 80 sets of false hair

Stockings made from human hair are worn by Chinese fishermen as the best preventative of wet feet. They are drawn over ordinary cotton stockings, beiug too rough for putting near the skin.

The hulk Ganges, which is moored off Harwich as as a training ship, is to be replaced by H.M.B. Camperdown, vessel which ran down the Victoria in the Mediterranean in July, 1893. Mosaic stones, laid with small 1 pieces of different coloured ' stones in regular patterns, were | known to the Egyptians 2,300 ' B.C. In Babylon floors of this kind dated from 1100 B.C They were common in the Athenian and Roman houses.

Some of the innkeepers in Sweden charge less for a womau’s meal than for a man’s on the theory that she is physically uuable to eat so much. A married couple, travelling to gether, are charged for at many hotels as one person and a hilt.

Sick headache usually results f.otu a disordered condition of the stomach and can be corrected by taking a medium dose of Chamberlain’s Tablets. Try them and be couvinced When takeu as soon as the first indication of the attack appears they will greatly lesson its seventy. For sale by J. B Johnson, Agent.— Advt.