News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4426, 19 June 1909, Page 1

News Items

Cucumbers were origually tropical vegetables. The ships of the world are insured for a total sum of £950,000,000.

Insanity is quite as common among animals as it is among human beings.

Dogs in Hamburg are taxed according to size. The bigger the higher the tax.

This season Yorkshire C. C. has the most extensive fixture list ever arranged by its executive.

In England and Wales 848,** 038 of the population are paupers.

Lord Kitcheuer’s improvements m the Indian Army have cost some £8,000,000.

In 1885 three person werQ cremated iu England. Last year the number was 795.

Always choose for an invalid brightly coloured flowers rather than white, which is not cheer' ful for a sick-room:

During the last quarter the British Ship-wrecked Mariners’ Society relieved 3761 persons at a cost of £6899.

Probably the largest map o f its kind in the world is a raised map, 2000 square feet in area representiug Uganda.

It is said that 95. per cent* of the cases of ophthalmia are amenable to the treatment in

infancy.

President Taft is a membp* of the. American “Bill” Club organised for the most important Williams in the country.

Seven hundred and twenty pounds of string for Govern* meut purposes, are turned out at Aylesbury Prison every week.

The smallest salarv paid to the head of a civilised Government,is £2 a year to the Presi* dent of the.Eepublic of Adorra, in the Pyrenees. 1 '

The Eussian State sceptre is of solid gold three feet long, and contains among its ornaments 268 diamonds, 360 rubies,’ aud 15 emeralds.

Investigation into the nutritive values of the red, white, . yellow and violet varieties of potatoes show that the violet.* f fleshed ones rank highest.

The deepest well in the world is at Eonehamp. It reaches a depth of 33L0ft, The tempera'* ture at the bottom is never loss than 11*5 degrees P. At Paris the “ International Congress of the Map of the Sky ’V met to view a man giving the exact positions (f 50,000,000 stars; 22,054 negatives were used in making it.