News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4449, 14 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

The London County Council attains its majority this yeay.

The ratable value of England and Wales exceed £212,000,000

One-third of the earth' is 1 controlled by the Anglo-Saxon •ice.

European porcelain was first manufactured in Dresden about 1708. • m

During 10 years France will spend £120,000,000 on naval construction. /

It’took Captain Webb 21 hours 45minutes to swim the Channel in 1875.

Fifty thousand tons of soot are taken from London chimneys every year.

Blue, pink, aquamarine *diarnonds were recently exhibited in London.

China’s national hymn is so long’that it takes half'a day to listen to it.

Over 14,000 children are educated in Poor Law Schools in England and Wales. ’ Nearly 10,000 beds in London hospitals are daily occupied by the sick anjl maimed’ poor. , •

From' the 13th century to the 17th century a blue coat in England was the sign of a servant.

In the last 10 years 825,000 poople have emigrated from England and become Canadian farmers.

The word :l pageant ” originally signified the fixed or movable scaffold on which the plays were presented. When telegraphs were first employed the speed of transmission was ouly four or five words a minute.

Influenza often leads to bronchilis. When the first signs of appear—such as throat irritation, phlegm, dulluess of rthe eyes, tightness across the chest —don’t hesitate, but get a bottle of “Nazol.” It is wonderful how speedily “Nazol” gives relief and cures. Each i bottle contains 60 doses, and, is ‘ sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle. : ’ ;; j : . Durii/g the past year 855 ft awards were made bv the Boyai Life Saving Society for first aid to drovn’ug persons.-

j Gold can be. beaten out so i thin that it would take 282,000 ' gold leaves to produce the.thickness of a single inch, ■ '

j In the Austrian village of j Storbech all the inhabitant are chess players, and the game is taught in the public schools.

The Koh-i-noor diamoud originally weighed nearly 800 carats, but by successive cutting has ben reduced to 106 carats.

Nasal Catarrh or Cold in the head—with all its disagreeable symptoms—may be quickly relieved and cured by ‘Nazol.'’ It is simple in use, p werful in action, and harmless to the ] a • tient. It is worth trying, because it repre-'ents the latest advance in medical science. Eadi bottle sold by chemists and stores at Is Gd per bottle.