News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4432, 6 July 1909, Page 1

News Items

The phrase “living on tick ” dates back to th.e 17th century, when a tradesman’s bill was known as a ticket.

“ Marriage,’’ ..soys Mr A. Chichele - Plowden,** in the. “ Strand Magazine/’ “ would l a more popular and respected if a wider door were open for es* cape.” The Mauretania’s eight con-* secutive ocean trips have been accomplished at ' f(n average speed of over 25 knots, her actual average speed for all the trips having been 25.36 knots. Miss Harriett Crabbj who has just died at Bridport (Dorsetshire) at the age of 98, had been connected with the Unitarian Sunday-school for 92 years, during 80 of which she had been a teacher.

Probably the highest situated inns in England are the Tan Hill Inn, Yorkshire, on the Brough - Reeth Road,' 17‘iit above sea-level, and the Cat and Fiddle, Cheshire, (Macclesfield Buxton), l(|9oft. The Ipswich (Eng.) Education Committee have declined to accede to a request for the provision of battledores and shuttlecocks for the infants’ department, or to replace an old harmonium with a new piano:

About 40 children are bom each year in prisous in England and Wales. In registering the births care is taken that the description of the place of birth is so entered as to aVoid the word “ prison ” in the certificate

,At an inquest at Ipswich (Eng.) on .a woman aged 70, ifc was stated that she and her husband, who had been out of work for 12 months, had lived on 4s a week allowed them by the ■guardians, spending 2s a week as rent.

In order to inspire his students with a lcve of the beautiful, Professor Pagaurek, of the art school at Stuttgart, has adopted the plan of showing 1 them the most hideous articles of furniture and plate as amples of what the real artist must avoid.' Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreeable symptoms —may be quickly re** lieved and cured by “Nazol.” It is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worth tryiug, because it represents the latest advance in. medical science. Each bottle contains GO doses, and is sold by chemists and stores at Is Od per bottle. The copper bath in which Marat was slain by Charlotte Corday is for sale in Paris. It was ouce sold to a museum for £l2O, but now it bas come into the market again. It is th s» cribed as an old tub “shaped like a wooden sin e and scarred from ancient usage.” The largest whale ever seen at Grimsby bas been brought into that ] ort by the trawler Leonora. It was 80ft in leaglh, and of a corresponding girth, and was raptured 120 miles , from Spurn Head iu a dying condition. It was towed home tail first, but succumbed on the way.

Influenza often leads to broil* ckitis. Yv hen the first signs of influenza appear —such as throat irritation, phlegm, dullness of ; the eyes, tightness across the chest—d( n t hesitate, but get a bottle of “ Nazol ” It is wonderful jp w speedily “ Nazol ” gives rbCeL and cures. Each bottle contains GO doses, andb solckby chemists and stores at ls sd per bottle. h' . . YY