NEWS JOTTINGS.
The final provisional census returns give the total population of India as 315,000,000, this being an increase of 20,500,000 as compared l with the 1901 census. A well known doctor who dabbles m literature recently published a poem. Shortly after its appearance he was conversing with a lady celebrated for her wit. ‘Well, doctor/’ she remarked, “so I Lear you have taken to writing verse.’’ “Oh, merely to kill time.” “Indeed! Have you disposed of all your other patients?” ..Abraham: I went to a very swell party last night. Michaels: Did you, Abraham? Where was it? Abraham: The Cohens —and they real good spoons. Michaels : Show me one. Flannagin: What’s the use of choppin’ down a tree? Finnegan (resting on. his axe) : Why not? Flannagin: Shure, ye’ll only have to chop it up agin. Argentina is the greatest exporter of corn and chilled or frozen meats in the world'; only Russia exceeds its exports of wheat, and Australia alone supplies the -world’s markets with more wool.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3259, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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168NEWS JOTTINGS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3259, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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