GENERAL.
In Denmark is an old man of 106 years of age, who has never seen a railway train or a steamship. The Board of Agriculture last year had no less than 4,237 applications for fancy names for margarine. It is estimated that out of 32,823 blind in the United Kingdom about 10,000 are supported by the Poor Law. Moscow has a cabdriver who is daily to be seen at his post, although he is 103 years of age His license was taken out eighty years ago, when he was twenty-three years old. He plies his calling daily in all weathers. Chimneys were iirst used in Europe in the fourteenth century. None of the Roman ruins show chimneys like ours. The wealthy Romans used carefully dried wood, which would burn in the room without soot.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 697, 13 October 1909, Page 6
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135GENERAL. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 697, 13 October 1909, Page 6
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