News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4447, 10 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

The mean depth pf the AN lantic is estimated to be about 16,000 ft.

Twenty-fiv.e. million ppunds] have already been expended-in? the rebuilding of San Francisco,? Twenty trey pounjds df dard gold are coined- into 934 sovereigns and one half-sove« reign. * e""

No peer can take-his seat in the House of Lords if he be under age, of unscuud age/ or bankrupt

The first Hague Peace ..Coi| ference was held at' the Hague iu 1899, at the instigation of the Czar of Eussia. ~ J

It has been discovered that you can add a little powdered chalk to common glue, to make the'glue stronger,

At an open.-air performance of classical plays near lucerne recently, the prompter’s box'waS a large chestnut tree. j ' ” ***** • *' ’**•* : By the mining laws and customs of Derbyshire, a miner,i if he finds ore, may dig for it on auy person’s ground. [ "fl In the last 50 years tlie population of England -ha| almost doubled itself;while that of Ireland has decreased by ab Dut one third? ’ ■

The Japanese are alway | buried with their heads toward the North* Consequently, n Japanese will sleep in a bei lying North and South. < Within the Antarctic circl there has never 'been fouud : flowering plant. In the Arctj regio'nsdherc ire 762 differen species of flowers. ! 1 - • . » it Influenza often leads to bron clrtis. Whenlhe first signs g i influenza appear—such as tliroa irritation, dullness o the eyes, tightness ' across th chest —don’t hesitate/ bur get i i bottle of “ Nazol.” I/? is won derful how speedily-IvNazbiLf gives relief and cures. ‘Efiei bottle contains GGdoses, and i sold by chemists and stores if ; J s 6d per bottle. Newcastle has started a P. 3 0. Club. The letters staqd f| , “ Pay Your Own ” ' and ?t| . object of the club is. to rcstr. i its members from staudingi - drinks, j The wings of the owl ,aj i lined with soft down, 'aides the bird to flv withoi > making the slightest sound—- ■ very important matter to | ' nocturnal bird of prey. )' • • j The games of dominoes, chei ibaccaiat, and Lusqueuet hi > come from China, and'-are - ver old, being traceable as far b{j| l as two or three . thousand yen b fore the Christian era. j Nasal Catarrh nr Cold in f)j j head—with all. its disagrbeabj symptoms —may be quicklyd® lieved and cured by “ Nazolj | It is simple in use, powerful • l action, and harmless to the pa tient. It is worth trying, b] cause it represents the latest au vauce in medical science.- Ead bottle contains GO doses, and j sold by chemists and stoics-;! j Is Gd per bottle.