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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4359, 12 January 1909, Page 1

News Items

Dogs in Hamburg are taxed according to size jSggj There are 175 different in the average watch. CSH Football, was considered- i 'crime reign of Henryßßi TUI. V-'-'-' _ . . V Gold can be beatefe 1200 ’ times thinner than printing paper. The tongue of a single whale has been known to produce a \ ton of oil, j The factories of Japan close J on the first and fifteenth of each month. ’ 1 % Ninety-six per cent, of the i world’s coal is produced north of the Equator. • 1 Twenty-five per cent, of the female population of Scotland work for their living. French doctors are prohibited from receiving money bequeathed to them by patients. l( The longest day ” in Nor* way lasts from May 21 to July 22 without interruption, More women attain the age of 50 than men; but afterwards the men have the best of it. Canada sends to the United Kingdom nearly 1,500,000d01. worth of skins and furs every year., - || Eice paper is not made from rice, as its name implies, but from the membranes- of tjie j bread-fruit tree. ’ _ A--The people . of Great Britain ;; consume less tobacco * per head than those of any other civilised country. At a recent tobacco exhibi|icn in London were shewn somß Havana cigars which were quoted at £1 each. Silk as fine as any from a d cocoon is spun by the prima * M nobilis, a shellfish found in the JR Mediterranean Sea. Norwegian fir makes the best J masts. Next come, in order, * the spruce fir, American wbjte JIJ pine; and Scottish pink * *> I,'j So great Ivas the incouvOni'- 1 ence caused to both public uud . ! employees by' a swarm of bfcek settling at the entrance to General Post Office •at Drayton that the insects eventually to be destroyed by gunpowder and parafin. * > When a in deeires to senjji a telegram .while hr ie ofi the train,lhejyntekthe message on ‘a postcard, pulsion a uyfi tamp, and drops'it into the. - train letterbox. At the neit.P | station tlio box is emptied and „ | the message sent. tf. It is a singular fao“. but- pile . | proved by statistics, that crime "- is more common iu single lib* than married, iu the fortn r : 33 in every 100,000 are guilty, | while out of the same number; Irmly 11 of the m«nied have 1 seriously broken tlie laws.