News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4344, 3 December 1908, Page 1

News Items

Wall paper was first made in Germany about 1560. 'SjB Norway is the healthiest .JUpji country in the world. ;J||l| Windmills were invented by §|gg the Saracens. - ro\ More hunchbacks are met 1 within Spain thaffl anywhere ** else. ■' Ninety per cent, of Japan’s v -:.. population can read and write/ California’s annual yield of ostrich feathers is valued at £20,000. Horsehair from the tail is the strongest animal thread known. The worlds mines and quar« ries find employment for 5,000,000 people. t-' >J| There are said to be 15 tons >J \ of silver in circulation for each ton of gold, A man’s chances of sudden death are eight times as great as those of a woman. The highest clouds reach 10 miles above our heads and ’".'itTl the lowest about miles. For every 10,000 inhabitants in the United Kingdom there are just over five miles of railway. . The trees in Berlin streets ;|i|| give employment to’"""-1000 gardent rs and assistants, who take care of them. * . France has more money in circulation, in proportion to its population, than any other $ country. . .. 1] Books are kept at Russian . || railway stations specially for the registration of passenger’ ,J complaints. For despatch-carrying, the Russian Army has trained fal - . ] cous, which have a far greater • ; ; speed thau carrier pigeons. , In the south of Fraucc . S women are employed on Ihe ~oi the railways at crossings, and at wayside stations, as signallersis^T^ A leafless tree grows on an % |SI island in the Pacific. It reaches a height of 30ft., tnd has branches spreading like an •> umbrella. || No nation has ever achieved y-q permanent greatness ui lesß ihD greatness was placed on the /Jp well being of the great farm r . -? ? class, the men who live on the soil, for it is upon their -w? «> >...1 fare, material and moral, that the welfare of the rest of tho nation ultimately rests Some few years aso the Danes tried a few Jers ys (says a. writer in the ‘‘ Live Stock ;. j Journal ■’) which evidently stood the test to their satisfac- ; . ticu, for their numbers have is|! steadily increased, and now the ' j latest news informs us that the /. largest cousigment (100 Jerseys) on record has just Tkh-u .i?dshipped from the island to Den mark. The animals have beeu. y selected chiefly for their dairy qualities. Not show profits, but big yields of butter are sought by the Danes. f , ' • „.y| Fur novelties i< Neckwear'lace <r >od Betts etc., at L-ss than Auckland pttce Try Gahagan’s Economic.—Advt Mr William Francis, dis Tasmania, writes : “ During the recent' liot spell in Melbourne, I bail a verysevere attack of gastritis. I tried many" • • , remedies, but nothing did me any. good. A . friend from Queensland, ’1 j seeing how ill.l wat, recommended' me y' £ to take - Chamberlain’s Colic, . (dholeni and Diarrhoea'-Remedy.. I did so, andtiS , had only taken about four dose? whenL-If obtained relief. I am a c< uu u erc.’t>l / travel!* r} and visit, many of th<r mf> jpg '•centres of Tasmania and New £ >jil i’. ■ and will certainly • never go’ ..ini m.wF 1 travels again , without-- a JemDo . j | Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholma aid Diarrhoea Demedy with .me. Eor kal|#| J by J; B. Johnson, Agent.— ' • A spit'- lid range of. chilttrc u’, sfijj f bonnets at Gahagan’s’ Economic. —Affivtfc |