News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4389, 23 March 1909, Page 1

News Items

Venezuela’s elephant beetle is the largest insect in the world. It weighs half a pound.

In Copenliagen the Salvation Army holds the raonoply oi the street shoeblacking business The Eussian Secret Serviceemploys over 6000 womeh| Some "draw a salary of £2OOO aj year.

Some 600,000 tons of ice arc produced in Norway annually. Of this, London purchases ,one third. \\

In London, 900,000 persons are; living more than two in a room, and 26,000 six or more in a, room A ; f

There is a house in Lombardstreet, London, which rented at £25 m 1665, and now rents" at £2600* ' •\:J|

Steel for penknives is temperep at 47Odeg.; for table-knives,; at 53Odeg ; and for saws, at 560; degrees. The Eoyal palaces and Marl-; borough House cost the nation; £60,000 to £65,000 a year in repairs, etc.

Of a million girl babies born, 871,266 are alive at 12 months ; of boys, 30,000 less live through the first vear.

Two hundred and fifty-nine' in every 1000 of the world’s; population own King Edward VII. as Sovereign. r Practically the whole of the’ 15,000 inhabitants of Markneukirchen, Saxony, are engage&| in violin making. An imperfect copy of 11 The Poly crony con,” printed by Cax-: ton in 1482, was sold in New York recently for £350. The world produces 13 mill lion tons of cotton a year, nhiej of which come from Americaand two and a half from India, j

All the houses in the poorer; quarters of the capital of Honduras are made of which costs less than pine .there.;

Japanese lovers frequently give their future I 'brides pieces of beautiful silk, to be worn as sashes, instead of engagements

rings. . -r oh Sixteen thousand five hunll red feet is the highest point to which a man can ascend with - out his health being seriously affected. .

A three-*months-old oyster is the size of a shilling, at six months it is as big as half a** crown ; but an oyster is not fit to eat until it is four years old For short distances, the salmon ls the swiftest swimmer of any fish. It can travel at rate of 25 miles an hour.

Passenger locomotives in Europe earn on an average 5| pence per mile run, those foi merchandise 74 pence per mile To teach proper declamation to the pupils, in some Viennese schools, the voices of eminen actors are repeated on phono graphs. All Bonaparte’s wars cos: France only oi millions. TK< Crimean War cost her 93 millions, the Franco-German bit millions.

The English Lord Chie Justice and the Irish Lore Chancellor both get the sam< salary £BOOO. The Scotej Lord Justice General gets £soo{ only. |