News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4446, 7 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

There are 397 members in German Keichstag. - Wigs were worn by the Egyptians and the Syrians. The chestnut bread used in North Italy- and Corsica will keep fresh for 15 days. The use of bad language over the telephone is punishable with a fine of £2O in Omaho, U.S, Canada possesses the world’s? largest bullock, which is '6ft high, lift 2in long, and Bft Sin in girth:

Prizes have been offered to children who attend school in Martham, Norfolk, with the cleanest boots.

Mr Felix Brown, of Chicago, has invented an appliance by means of ;vhich a man may cut his own hair. / '

M,P.’s have now a special room set aside for the accommodation of their chauffeurs at the House of Commons. In the. Central Prison of Madrid the convicts have been running a weekly journal, called “Force,” wdiich is sold at 9^d. England's prison population is 90 per 100,000 of her inhabitants, that of Ireland 66 per

100,000, of Scotland only 52 hi the same number.

The capacity of the Atlantic cables is calculatad at 300,000000 words annually. Only 25,000,000, however, are sent.

The letters in the various alphabets in the world vary froni 12 to 202 in number. The Sandwich Islauds his 12, while the Tartarian has 202, '

H.M.s. Gladiator originally cost £287,G40. The cost of raising her after, her collision with the liner St. Paul was £50,500, and she' has just been sold for £15,125. Lieut. Shackletou’s cablegram to the Daily Mail, telling tie story of his discoveries, was tie largest press message ever transmitted from New Zealand.

! Nasal Catarrh or Cold iu the [head —with all its disagreeable, {symptoms—may be quickly re-. (lieved and cured by “ NazoL” t lt is simple in use, powerful in action, and harmless to the patient. It is worth trying, bo. cause it represents the latest advance iu medical science. Each bottle contains 60 doses, aud is sold by chemists and stores at Is 6d per bottle.

j Tw r o thousand moveable • kitchens have been ordered fer :1 he Austrian army. Each tf ' these is a four wheeled vehicle weighing about half a ton, thoroughl y equipped' for cooking in the field.

The edible dogs of China areknown by their bluish-black tongues. They never bark, and are very taciturn. Four million and a half are slaughtered annually to gratify the palates of Iho Celestials.

Influenza often leads to bron.* ch’tis When the first signs. influenza appear —sucl) 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 speeai’y li Nazol gives relie e and cures. Eich bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists and stor js at JsGd per bottle.