There is .in Paris a Buddhist temple with (three hundred members. Every inhabitant of Franco pays n yearly tax of foui'pence on matches. Thero ihre two ways to face misfortune —grin and bear it, or bear it. and not grin. Stem-winding watches w e ro the -invention of Noel in 1851. The first paper mills -in Europe, near Ancona, date from 1340. Tlie French -unit of horse-power is one-sev e nth less than the British. Persia now grows 13,000 tons of cot/toiL yearly, and sc-nds it all fo Russia. “If the “voice” of an elephant were as loud in proportion as that of a nightingale its trumpeting could be beard round the world. A Devonshire landlord, having tried in vain to get rid of some troublesomo tenants, stopped up tlieir chimneys with a covering of cement.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2054, 4 December 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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136Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2054, 4 December 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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