News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4345, 5 December 1908, Page 1

News Items

There are at least dogs in Constantinople. ' |l§fpj The world experiences 30,0j)0||i|lk earthquakes every year. . jMgg There are fifty miles of hair 5 -i on an average woman’s head. London postman cover tween them about 55,000 miles dail y- • Hlßk , There are 227 different | ligious sects in Great and Ireland. j The police force in England i g and Wales includes over 45.000 The income of Oxford versity is slightly under £70,000 per annum. MBS Berlin now has 200 in4he- slot machines for the MBit supply of newspapers. ‘ In France, a father of seven 1 f or more children is practically!^^ (exempt from taxation. t §J|| j A Baptist church in Sanota‘|Hß|' j Bosa, California, was built froafcpS j the wood of a single redwoodvf/’ :, s tree. ilHli ; Dried currants given to ‘ vi Worses occasionally, instead of ||■% oats, are said to increase thejgl|gi animals’ Three of the most important:, J|j|| banks in Europe were founded,; ,-iy by Scotchmen—viz: the Banka;g||l of England, France, and The east window of Carlisle . I f Cathedral is the finest in Eng«* '-.y-j land. It contains nearly 200 different subjects from sacred* history. In some parts of Hollan4 a * silk pincushion on the door-knob.,, ||g| proclaims a birth. If the pincushion is red, the baby is a *2/ boy;, if white, a girl. - The amount of gold in Great l Britain and Ireland is estiinj ated as varying, according to circumstances, from millions to £110,000,000 ster* The German Crown has sent a telegram to Mr ber Wright heartily latiug him on his brilliant: aeroplane flights at Lo Mans. Mr Wright in reply said jhe would be glad if the Prince ijfg* were the first German passengf-r |S to go up with him in his ’ J|jj aeroplane. Bulgaria was annexed to the Ottoman Empire in 1396. Man is said to be subject to 1212 different diseases. Pearls to the value of one: million pounds sterling reaches 3 London every year. ’ ■ A single ton of steel will make about 10,000 gross of |t steel pins. pAt least a milliou telegrams arc sent over the world’s wires daily. The sound of a bell carries Mill much further through wtter >ll3l than air. Housework and market ingilffM form part of the BejadianflilM schoolgirl’s training. ; <„ According to records recently •Jl completed Europe is"growing* steadily colder. [-*/ vsß| ’-There are 200 saving banks: jj™ established in connection Scottish schools. i Both married men \ women, on an rMMMM longer than i jNj spinsters'respectively* \ During time of war, / Bulgarians between J-8 and years of age nAtli- -j soldiers. * 'W ■ . il