News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4451, 19 August 1909, Page 1

News Items

Neptune takes over 160 yearsJ to make one revolution, round! the sun.

Zoologists say that all known species of w ; ld animals are gradually diminishing in size. % Of all European countries/ only Holland has a lower rate of iufant mortality than . Great Britain.

Germans are the most prone to suicide; the Irish and negroes rarely re3ort to self-destruc-tion. 1

Sixteen shillings has recently to be paid by an aeronaut for damaging telephone wires with his balloon.

Over 3000 pounds of rose! petals are used in the manu- j facture of one pound of otto of rcses perfume. Carpet-tacks, of which our great grandfathers knew nothing are now used at the rate of 50,000,000 a day. * i 1

Nottingham has distributed £125,000 from the profits of the municipal trams in the last 11 years towards the relief of the rates. ' , v!>|

The British Museum possess a chair—the throne of Queen Hatasu—which was in use 3500 years ago. ! , ! j

In the rural districts of England and Wales the death-rate is about 23 per cent, lower than in the urban districts. : A mole's home in the earth has always four or five outlets. ! By means of one or the other ! the inmate is always able to f elude danger. Nasal. Catarrh or Cold in the ! head —with all its disagreeable symptoms—may be quickly re--. lieved aud cured by “ Nazol. 1 ’ It is simple in use, powerful inj action, aud harmless to the pa • tient. It is worth trying, be-.', cause it represents 1 ihe latest! advance in medical science. Each bottle contains 60 doses, and is sold by chemists aud stores at Is 6d per bottle. Sir James Dewar recently! stated in a lecture at the Rbyall : Institution that there were! 20,000 tons of radium in the sea aud 1,000,000 tons of radium-, on the ocean-hed. ! Meuelik 11. of Abyssinia basil iu his possession more than- : 1000 locks of human hair, of : , every shade of color nud texture*! | each of these is carefully labelled [with the date and other- ; particulars of its acquisition, } A wonderful material seen ■in evening uowns is aluminium i It is like quick.-silver, and suits! | fair women wonderfully well, j especially wlieu worn j remarkably effective diamond ' network that resembles a gosj snmer covered with dewdrops iu the suusliinc. Influenza often leads to bronchitis. When the first signs hf ntluenza appear as throat irritation, phlegm, dulluessi of the e/es, fight ness across the chest — don’t hesitate, but get a bottle'of “Nazol.” It is wonderful how speedily “ Nazol >? gives relief aid cures. Eacj bottle contains 60 doses, sold by chemists and stores JH Is Gd per bottle. M