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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4406, 4 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

Over 1,000 English trades! men are entitled to usfe thl Royal Arms over their' shol fronts. 1 Exclusive of soldiers anl sailors on foreign service, near! 4,000 i 000 Britons are j livin out of their country. j , 1 Peppermint is usually pre pared from gin sweetened witl sugar, and flavoured with th< essential oils of peppermint./;. |f| Provision has been .made ii the Brazilian Budget for th< publication of JOOO copies 6: “ Paradise Lost ” translated in to Portuguese. j. The English sovereign waji first coined in 1626. ;Previo'|l to that date the noblfe, jyalue I f shillings, was the most- valuablt British coin. 1 1 The standard mark for goljc of 22 carat 3 is fn England s lion passant; in a Earf crowned; for Glasgojv? a lion rampant; and for Edinburgh a thistle. M \) M i j j With the intention jpf racing the Euglish, American, and A ustraliau'y champions, R. E. Walker, the 'SoUjth African sprinter, sailed frpjn Capetown for England on April 29. Young ladies at Beaverviile, Ind., have formed a| league to promote refinement) j among young men," and, aiding other things, have resolved jto marry no man who drinks oi! ismokes. Exeter has more cthjfches for its size than any other town in England. It has one j cathedral, 34 Anglican churches; and 17 Nonconformist churchjbs, besides the Roman Catholic cjbjapel. One jftf the latest additions to the American. JVluseum of Natuj ra 1 History is a {nummifiol duck, estimated to beS,OOO,OOM years old, which:was] iound inli sandstone, stratum :ik Wyj ming. * 1 The Czar has compianded t jfl formation of a committee H organise"' national "sutrseri p tio« for a to be builtaS uiejn#bf;: the R«Ssiift!f ’pldieH who ’ the' *Russ® Japanese. -wa?. 5 1 "SubmaVine fog'Signals hajffl

[proved a success on- the English 'coast, miles off. ' ; SubnamtAr bells are oaowf soun|iedt' or foggy weather "from, four addi* tioiral ;• lightships-- -i he Spurn, .Outer Gabbard... Divers, and Shambles.-

Legal decisions have been ini «Nb&L\Y dering the American Sugar definingjQompany to pay to.-the OoveiU-

ment £26,803, which had been paid in Gustogis duties owing to the incorrect weighing of imported Sugar/ j]

It is a curious fact that there are' certain kinds.-- of noises •which 'attract 'snakes'. ; The whir of the mowing machine is ODe| and in six months as- many ai i 1 -20 - cobras - - alone have beeri 'Tailed on a grassfang’ in India by the advancing machine.

The founders of the lineage of thoroughbred racehorses are .said to he three Eastern horses : 'llyerley Turk,' Darley Arabian, ;uid the Giodolphiu Arabiau oi Barb. -" To one or the other of these" three all the horses now -registered in the Jockey Club j stud-book trace their ancestry.