News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4411, 15 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

' The White House contains a : 'i piano inlaid with gold.

About 50,000 horse 3 were killed for food in Paris last year;

More duels are fought iri/| Germany than in any other-1 country! 4%

It is stated that bread was first made in 1998 B.C. by ai Chinaman. ' ' ■

The regulation pace of a 4 policeman on his beat is 2J miles an hour.

There are no fewer than -208 different characters in the Abys* sinian alphabet.

There is an average of one newspaper for every 82,000 inhabitants of the world.

One thousand tons of soot' ’ settle monthly within the U S square miles of London.

The postal business of the ; world is increasing at the rate "If of 7 per cent, per annum. I'

During war time all male | Bulgarians between the ages of f 18 and 47 must serve as sol-|| diers.

Mechanical slate-pickers, doing the work of ten boys, have been successfully introduced in ’ a Peuusvlvauian mine.

The Japanese have three forms of salutation; one saluting an inferior, another for p saluting an equal, and a third; | for saluting a superior.

It is a curious truth that butterfly can be frozen hard, : ;| and left so for many hours, yet % on being removed to warmth f the insect will recover and fly Q; away.,

Leon Casse, the official viper killer in the forest of Fontaine* | bleau, disposes of an I average of 800 vipers a year, | and has been bitten so often that he is now immune from | danger from snake bites.

When a vessel is about-to be 1 launched in Japan, a large cage‘l filled with birds, is usually over tho bow. As the ship- f glides iuto the water . the birds f are released. It is believed that the birds bring good luck to the ship when she begins her life,, on the sea.

Canada has rejected the shnV Jlow canal idea, and its caual ;1 from Georgian Eaj r to the St. Lawrence, by way of the Ot r l tawa and Mattawa Rivers, will be 21 ft deep, ' making Chicago ? and Milwaukee and Duluth ocean ports, subject only to sail | of several hundred miles through . exclusively British sail.

The most wonderful collection of dolls in the world belongs to Ppucess Clementine of Belgium, youngest daughter- of King Leopold. Among these are dolls from' the ruths'of B ibvlon. bon t doHs from Greeulajtd., a woodvi nue front Peru, a p iper d >ll front India- : and Greek - dolls; with wardrobes and' dolls’ hou o, that:have furniture aiV-l d sits in them.