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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4420, 5 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

There is still pending in the Law Courts a case which wa? initiated in 1707. Five hundred and seventy-six aliens became naturalised Englishmen last year. . '-vivg It is stated that English is. gradually becoming the international language of commerce in China. Germany has 23 army corps*? containing 897,000 men, as against England’s regular Army of 180,000. Austrian police must know how to swim and use a boat. They are also required to understand telegraphy. \ 1 '1 In Nelson’s days the price now paid for a single Dreadnought would have met the cost of a whole fleet of raen-of«* war. There is a little six-year-old Chicago girl who can repeat every word of the “ Merchant of Venice ” without a mistake. Eighty thousand elephants are required annually to supply the world with ivory, and most of them come from South Africa. “ Naturalist, and trainer of ants, fleas, bees, etc./’ was the description a man gave of himself at the North London Police Court: A medical man has stated at the Shoreditch County Court that he attended 18,000 patients a year, an average of 49 patients each day. There has been caught in Oswestry Market a bird-catching spider, 2in long, which is supposed to have reached England in a bunch of bananas. Wire hair pins were first used iu 1545, and were invented in England. Before that time the hair was held in place by little wooden skewers. Experiments have shown that the Chicago air, 300 ft, above the street, contains in a year 70351 b of dirt an acre, or three times as much as London air. In consequence of their hall being wanted for roller-skating, the members of the Bishop’s Stortford Eifle Club have been unable to shoot for three months. When vessels o?; timber sink to very great depths in the ocean, the pressure is so great that the water is forced into the pores of the wood, which then becomes too heavy to rise again. At the present ratio of pro.* gress, seventy years will elapse before the ruins of Pompeii are entirely uncovered. It is thought that as much of treasure remains as has been exhumed.

Siberia has the coldest weather known anywhere in the world. At Verkhoyanousk, Siberia, o'J fiieg below zero was observed in January, 1888, which goes below anything ever' known in the world before or since. In Indianopolis, a Centra American city, ill urn in ant gas comes up from the earth iuto the consumer’s burner by means of a pipe, it is true, but without coal, smoke, or gasometer. It is gas ready made, and laid on.