News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4412, 18 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

Despite its great size, an ele-f phant has only eight teeth. There are honey bees in Indiar| which build combs loft high. ' |

The German population of the world is nearly 100,000,000|1 strong. , V|j

Sudden death is eight times | as likely for a man as for a woman.

Roller-skates were invented in 1768 by a Dutchman named Merlin.

While at work the employees at Cuban cigarette factories are entertained by readers. Madrid has a law by which habitual drunkards have their ! heads shaved every four weeks. As many as 1042 fatal accidents occurred in the factories and workshops of the United Kingdom during 1908. ■ In parts of China, if a man does not pay his debts his creditors carry away one of his doors to allow evil spirits to enter/.

There is being constructed over the Alps a telephone line which has the highest altitude of any telephone line in the world. ' $

In Berlin is a club which has a curtain made of champagne corks. The 4000 corks used represent an expenditure of over <£4ooo. —:

In nearly every street in Japanese cities is a public oven, til where, for a small fee, housewives may have their dinners and suppers cooked for them. Pungent and acid tastes aro r| perceived by the tip of. the A? tongue ; the middle tastes sweets and bitters, while the back and lower parts taste fatty sub- "|§ stances.

Under the revised law relating to the employment of women and children in Italy, night work is forbidden for all females and for males of less than 15 years.

Opals often fall from their settings because they expand with heat more than other pre • cious stones, and consequently, force open the gold which holds them in place. Bombay claims the greatest density of population in the world, and its claim is oulv disputed by Agra, also in India. Bembay has TOO persons per acre in certain areas.

When a burglar wants to break into a Peruvian house betakes a sponge and a buck'd of water and moistens the walls, which are covered with only a thin coating of mud, and easily dissolve upon the application of moisture.