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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4387, 18 March 1909, Page 1

News Items

Incubators are an Egyptit invention “Bosh’’ is a Turkish woi meaning “ nothing.” The world’s railways a i valued at £5,555,000,00 In China a wife may divorced if she is too talkatft Twenty-five per cent, women earn their own living King George of Greece is tl poorest of all Europea monarchs. In London, lamps cause oj fires every year, gas 21! chimneys 179. The Mauretania’s boilei placed end to end, would mal a string 547 ft. long. In the West Indies a lemon ; bath is almost a daily luxur: I Three or' four limes or lemo] I are sliced into . the water, ai I allowed to lie for half-an-hod |in order that the juice may l i extracted. A remarkable seni !of freshness and cleanliness given to the skin. Children from eight to 1 years of age are employed! the sulnhur mines of Caltan setta, Sicily, to carry the su phur to the surface of the eartl The occupation is very ui healthy, and the children, afti two or three years’ service, b come complete physical wreok Type for printing in 15 languages is owned by the O? ford University Press. In 1236 the Danube Riv< was frozen to the bottom, an remained so for a long time. Four hundred thousand dii monds are cut every year in oi Amsterdam factory alcne. Korean tailors do not stitc garments. They, paste tt edges together and press the) down. Recent earthquake shocks ■; Hawaii killed fish in gre« numbers, throwing them up'o the shores, . . ' ; ; The most expensive smg piece of fur is possessed by tl Empress of Russia. Zfc_ is * sable cloak, worth £16,000 f More than 1100 skulls, man of which are centuries old, ha\ been arranged on shelves in th crypt of Hythe Parish Church and may be inspected by th public. Spiders live two years. China.xports have treble iu I. years. Rail way-f ares in India are tb lowest in the world J With most raei>, heard,, stronger on the righ *. In three faces out .1 Hve th eyes are out of aligum i. . Married men commit suicid more freqnently than bachelor! About 1,200,000 people ar always afloat on the seas of tb world. One mile of steel rails avei ages 130 tons of metal, and 14 tons of iron. Berlin has 45,000 trees in it streets—more than any othe city in the world. In Vienna, organ - grindej may only play between midda; and sunset. Ants of South America ha? been known to construct | tunnel three miles long. A web two and a-quarte miles long has been drawn froi the body of a single spider.