In the island of San Domingo there is a remarkable salt mountain—a mass of crystalline salt, nearly four miles long, estimated to contain nearly 90,000,000 tons, and said to bo so clear that medium-sized print can be read through a block a foot in thickness. A minor official named Cheng 'Wenping, a recorder of Kiangpet, Anhui, lias arrived in Shanghai to collect famine relief funds from wealthy Chinese merchants for the starving population. He had cut off the joint of a finger and written his petition with the bleeding stump—a form of appeal which stirs the Chinese imagination profoundly. “Different men have different opinions.” Had the author of the above truism lived in modern times, he might have added: “Save on one point—the Excellence of MartelEs Brandy.”*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3348, 14 October 1911, Page 7
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127Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3348, 14 October 1911, Page 7
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