News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4372, 11 February 1909, Page 1

News Items

Sugar has been known to the <9 Chinese for at least 3000 years. It is 140 years since the ■ Royal Academy in London was ;?■ instituted. I As a rule girls grow fastest iu their fifteenth year, boys in;i|| »their seventeenth. I • • fl I Human life, we are informed, {igß | has lengthened 25 per cent dur-hJH ing the last 50 years. I Iu the United Kingdom the -; J* average of deaths from exces- gjl sive drinking is 54 in 1,000,000 * The total number of , passengers who travelled on the <■ L.C.C.’s cars in 1907-8 was' I 372,515,754. - < ,T' gi In Sweden there is a i and dumb corps of the Salva--/:>|| | tion Army, which holds four "'ll neetings weekly. There are 13 miles of book- nig helves in the British Museum. hS i One must walk up every stair- \u ere one can slide down the balustrade, * - It is estimated that there are. J about 865 tons of gold in lation in England. - Two million pounds’s worthy !of German toys are said to be | j sold in Loudon annually. >< \ . | You have learnt something, j That always feels at first as if I you had lost som ‘thing. • j A divorce can easily be ob-j,y : § I taiued in St Helena up.on the j pavment of the modest sum of130s. If I About 500,000'tons of silver . jis produced annually by Mexico, 1 j Peru, Chili, and British | Colonies. , German engine-drivers re--ceive a gold medal and £IOO for every 10 years of -without accident. , According to population, f nearly twice as much coal is used in Great Britain as in any , other country. The average age of a horse is usually put down at 20 years; J the greatest age on record is be r - 1 lieved to be 62. i There arc in Great Britain j 1,446,481 private dwelling- | houses over £2O in value, with i a total value of £65,681,722. J

At birth, a male baby is about one-fifteenth heavier than a .female, while the former’s' brain weighs one-sixth more.

There are 5265 companies, with a nominal share capital of £137,907,836, registered in the United Kingdom.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself uothing; age, which forgive? itself everything, is forgive uothing.

There are 55 Labour M.P.s in the House of Commons, of whom 30 have hitherto been receiving payment from the Labour Parly.

Tf the demands of the Woman’s Social and Political Union of Great Britain are conceded, about a million and a * half women w 11 b'giveuyhe vote.

[i 1 .s been proved bv expen - rneuts that if fish get beyond a certain depth in the sea, 'they die, being unable to support the pressure of the water The world scraps its old sfeam.-engines and dynamos, but not its old prejudices, its old moralities, its old religions, and its old political constitutions

The Potherhitbe Tunnel is the largest of the 13 which ’nave been driven ' under the Thames. It occupied four years in the nvdv'ng; afid 'MM -