News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4414, 22 May 1909, Page 1

News Items

Women are not permitted to be photographed inf China. |

It is estimated that there ar 20,000 tons of radium in the ocean.

Cuba’s new President was besieged in oue day by SOOO.officeseekers. On March 7, 1876, the first patent on the telephone was granted.

It is estimated that there are 44,000 total abstainers in the Euglish arm} 7 . Nearly 1,000,000 telegrams pass through the Post-office of London every day. To Servians the greatest form of iudignity is to have the mous* tache shaved off. t, ;

Students in St Petersburg*!! are forbidden to lead stories of the Sherlock Holmes type. Modern Japanese coiis and ; banknotes bear legends in Eng~d| lish as well as in Japanese. There were more persons in rr receipt of poor relief in United Kingdom in 1850 than’!! in 1-908. On an average each resident - of Berlin spends cue-eleventh of his , income on intoxicating drink. Between 80 and 90 out of ; 100 persons are more or less susceptible to the influence of hypnotism. The straw-plaiting industry 5 of England gives employment to about 50,000 women and | 1000 to 5000 men. Gunpowder was known to 1 the Chinese 2000 BC. Its '| European invention is credited to Roger Bacon about 1281. ° -iff The yearly loss by wear onBritish gold coins is <£lS,ooo'; for the .vhole world the loss is | estimated at <£230,000.

In 1.000 criminals convicted yearly in the United Kingdom, 831 are English, 32 Welsh, 19 Scotch, 97 Irish, 21 foreigu.

Checkers or draughts were known to the ancient Egyptians, and pictures 4000 years old represent a quarrel over the game.

Experiments serve to show that a large ocean steamer going at 19 knots an hour, will move more than two miles after its engines have been stopped. Water thrown upon ice iu the Arctic regions will crack it just as boiling ivator breaks glass. This happeus because the ice is I so much colder than the water. A notable celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday (April 23) will be held iu his old

paiidi church Southward Cathedral. In the floral decorations, .which have been en<> : trusted to Miss Ellen Terry,, the spring flowers mentioned in co mention with Perdita and O )helia will be used.