News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4425, 17 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

The first photographs were taken in Eugland in 1802. Cricket wickets have been placed 22 vards apart since 1700.

Stips of mulberry bark serve for money in some of the in«> terior towns of China. Women convicts are addressed by their first names, instead of by numbers, as men are. As a result of the, dearth of fish on the Scotland coast, many fishermen have become golf* caddies.

Queen Victoria, from the age of 13 to the last few years of her life, kept a private journal filling 100 volumes.

During 1008 over 300 > persons were convicted in Great Britain for using false or unstamped weights and measures.

The Testiment which has been used at the Essex Quarter Sessions siuce 1750 has been re > placed by a new one. A pig is usually kept in every stable in Persia, as it is thought its presence is beneficial to the health of the horses.

In the elementry schoo T s of Germany the sharp pupils are separated from the stupid Medical men dp the sorting.

The custom of shaking hards originated among the ancient Israelites, and its meaning is that of peace, friendship, alliance and security.

It it? a strange fact that the

right hand, which is more sens' 1 iblc to the touch than the left, is less sensible than the latter to the effect of the heat or cold.

Islington has an old Parish Act which forbids the driving of sheep through the Parish on Sundays, aud two men have just been fined Gd each for doing this. v ■

Newspaper venders in Moscow are obliged to wear a certain uuiform, and the police can prevent them from pursuiug their vocation if they do not appear clean and tidy.

Dr. Willard T Grenfell, who ' is dove ting his life to the alleviation of distress among tlio poor of the Labrador coifst, has spent seventeen years among the the people of. that region. He-. :; has established many small pitals where medical aid anil'i I nursing is available.

Experiments are being carried out in the German navy with acetylene shells, which have been designed to take the place of searchlight. The shell is fired from a. special gun, so as to fall in the. neighbourhood of a ship of fortification. It is ignited on striking the water, and each shell has been constructed to burn with 3000 candle power for a period of three hours.