News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4445, 5 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

lu making champagne th( grapes are squeezed six times, each pressure making wine oi different quality. ,

There are about 9,500,000 telephones iu the world. Of these Europe has 2,400,000, and America 6,900,000.

There are three Fabers in the present House of Commons. One is a Radical and the other two are unionists. Man is the 'only animal whose nostrils open downwards. Even in the highest apes the nostrils open to the front. For the financial year ending March 31, the British National Debt amounted to £745,121,309 the lowest figure since,l9ol. At a marriage service in Bubapest the bride was so overcome by emotion that, when about to give her assent, her false teeth dropped.out. ' Once a tiger has taken to man-eating it confines itself to that kind of food. ’ln many parts of India the death-roll from this cause is still very large.

Influenza often leads to bronchitis. When the first signs of influenza appear —such as throat irritation, phlegm, dullness of the eyes, tightness across the chest —don’t hesitate, but get a bottle of “ Nazol.” It is wonderful how speedily Nazol 15 gives relief and <mres. Each bottle contains' 6j^M|ej|,/'attdis' sold by chemisfs ana' stores, at ls6d per bottle. - When a passenger pays, for his dog to ride by . rail, is the dog entitled to occupy a seat in the carriage the same as a human being? In Belgium a man turned a dog off a seat to sit down himself. The dog’s master brought an action against the individual, and the Courts have declared that the dog is as much entitled •to the seat as his master. • •/ i

A Bengali apprentice at Calcutta attacked Mr Boxwell, the chief clerk of the Assam, ant Cengal Railway, at Chittagong, and fractured his skull with a large chopper. On being questioned after his arrest, -the apprentice declared that he was tired of life and wished to kill a European before he died. A quantity of Swadeshi literature was found in his possession.

Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreesblw symptoms —may be quickly re--lieved and cured by “Nazol.” It is simple iii use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worth trying, because it represents the latest advauce in medical science. Each bottle contains GO doses, and is sold by chemists and stores' at Is. 6d per bottle. *••. ' 3

The case of a musical man. who named his four daughters after the eight notes of the touic sol-fa scale is matched by that of a provincial printer who named his children from. the type founts ho used —Ruby, Pearl, Diamond. The first two are not uncommon names for girls, only Ruby happened to he a' boy. lie followed in his father s footsteps and afterwards became a printers manager in Loudoun,