News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4375, 18 February 1909, Page 1

News Items

! Only oue man in 205 is over six feet. The average depth of the English Channel is 110 feet. The heir to the Russian throne is insured for £500,000. A full-grown eagle can consume two young lambs at a meal. i There are no newsboys in I Spain; women sell newspapers | in the streets. ' ; An insurance in Paris refuses \ to insure men who use hair dye. j On an average, 1490 lives are [ lost by fires in England and j Wales every year’

It is said that two out of every three who begin to learn shorthand fail to acquire it. The heart of a vegetarian beats, on au average, 58 times in a minute; that of a meat eater, 75. The Japanese never sleep ‘ with their heads to the north; but their dead are burned in that position.

j The selling of wine in Spain on a Sunday is prohibited, andj inns must close by midnight on i Saturday.

j On the ground that the build--1 ing is too cold to practise in, the choir of a Berwick church re-

cently went on strike. The Japanese host never entrusts the making of tea to his servants on high o icasions; that office he fulfils himself.

The Emperor of China and the Viceroy of India batweth them govern more than half the population of the world. Eagles and their allies live to a great age—loo years, or even more/ The youth of the golden eagle lasts 10 years.

The wine cellars at the Crystal Palace, including the accommodation for bottled beer, are more than a mile in length. Germany has the largest trade union in the world. It comprises 335,000 metal workers, of whom a large proportion me •women.

The Turks believe amber to be an infallible guard against the in jurious effects of nicotine ; hence its extensive use for the mouthpieces of pipes.

The dwarf willow which grows on Ben Lomond is said to be the smallest tree iu Great Britain. When fully grown it is from two to three inches in height.

The Government has prohibited the importation info, Hew Zealand of any fluid preparation of opium containing a greater quantity of extractive matter than tincture of opium prepared according to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America.

The puuishment for drunkenness in St Petersburg is to male the offender, no matter what his social position, sweep the streets. Well attired gentlemen, some of them in dress suits, are occasionally seen sweeping the streets after a uighv’s earou^a

Beetles possess an enormous amount of strength. The com mon dor beetle can draw 50U times its own weight, and a stag-beetle has been known to escape from underneath a lm>, on which a weight had b< cu placed 1700 times greater than the insect’s body.

Special Clearing Sale, 200 dozen Laces. All, widths, Id, 2d, and 3d yard, at Gahagan’s Economic.—Advt. Mr W. Wilson, Bevaus-street, Newtown, Wellington, N.Z., writes : •* My liver has given me a lot of trouble. Not long ago I had liver blotches all over my face and tried all sorts of things but obtained no relief. On the advice of a friend I tried Chamberlain’s Tablets aud before I had taken two bottles the blotches bad disappeared from my face, and I have not been troubled since.' For sale by J. B. Johnson, Agents. Ad Builders on one d ceDt job can save more than the price of the Little Booster floor cramp in time. Wigg & Co., Agents. —Advt. J. B. Johnson has devoted special consideration to the seed aud manure ; department, and wishes to see the Laurie Cup for champion Swedes won by aTe Aroha farmer. Our seeds are all tested before' being offered, and we are agents for best varieties.—Advt. We have some of our imported turnip seed left, also manure, at right price. Wigg. & Co.—Advt. It is said that to be thoroughly equipped is half the battle, this applies to | the farmer who invests in a Johnson’s I English rake and mower. —J. B I Johnson, Agent.—-Advt. ' (