News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4410, 13 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

The Czar’s son is insured f< the enormous sum of <£520,00

A cat interrupted the debati in the House of Commons 5i July 9, 1874.

Doga were hated by the an cient Hebrews, and worshippei by the ancient Egyptians. ‘ :

11l Mohammedan countrie women are not admitted beyon the doorways of mosques.

Every visitor to the Whilj House must keep his hands l sight during public receptions. In the metropolis of Lohdoi there is an average of one police man to every 424 people. \ Ancient paintings 4000 year old show ploughs, harrows, an? land rollers in use in Egypt. In the 17th century a trade! man’s bill was kuowu as a ticket whence originated the phrase “ living on tick.” Byron made more money that; any other English poet. Mur; ray alone paid him-£2o*ooo it purchase money and royalties.

Before the introduction of. tef and coffee our ancestors usee various kinds of beer, and thei only substitute for sugar wa honey. 1 \

Belgium has a special Siiucm the use of wbiclj indicates that the letter bearioj it is not to be delivered on Sun day.

Over 50 tons of leatherused annually for covering fpot balls used in the United Kingdom. The hides of „at leas 7.500 animals are used for thh purpose. The Japauese woman dresses according to her age. Sh< wears gold pins until she is 25 At 30 the pins are anf at 40 she wears plain shel combs. ' ’

It is estimated that the aveff age business mail walks a mill in LS| minutes, while the ordiii: ary loiterer, who has no busd ness on his mind, takes 29 mih utes’ , ,'i

General Botha has given the Transvaal Museum the Boe flag which waved above the Go vernment buildings at Pretoria until the capital was occupier by Lord Roberts.

In German prisons clicss club are by no means unco mmo a They are encouraged by l.b authorities as providing healtl| mental relaxation for well con ducted prisoners. The Order of Merit has oub ] 8 members. Of these thre are Japanese, namely, Field Marshall Oyama. Admiral Togo and General Yamagata. Th other members are all British. Kipling is the name\of til latest Canadian town. There g also in the Dominion a Shakes speare; 'while in the U.S.A there are 30 Miltons. thre Goldsmiths, four Dickenses, •• 3 Scots, 20 Byrons, two Tenny sons and a Thackeray. The highest clouds reach te; miles above our heads. The are the white, feathery form which we see on a clear duj Allhough apparently mot ionics they travel from 75 to 00 mile an hour.