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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7828, 22 June 1909, Page 1

-■••In'-; England and Wales 848,038 of the population are paupers. ' A Hungarian has invented a machine by which it is claimed 40,000 words an hour maybe sent over the telephone. No fewer than 18,231 old ago pensions have (says a British Parliament-' ary paper) died since the scheme camo into operation on January 1. It is estimated than £105,000 will be available out' of this year's profits of the gas, tramway, and electric concerns of the .Birmingham City Council towards the relief of the rates. The amount of the debt y contracted by British local authorities within recent years is; estimated by Mr John Burns, in a written answer to Mr Ridsdale, M.P., at the colossal figure of £577,249,733. Tests made on samples of schoolroom dust, states Mr W. H. Marsh, staff science master to the Buckinghamshire Education Committee, show that in ljlb of dust swept from one room there were 1,600,000,000 micro-organisms.