Items of Interest.
Mirrors were firsb made in Germany. There are 31,000 millionaires in the United States. An insurance company in Paris refuses to insure the life of any person who uses hair dye. A diamond ha? been inserted in one of the front teeth of a New York lady, who, of courso, is wealthy and fashionable. The onion firab came from India, and was an object of worship with the Egytians 2,000 years before the Christian era. An Indian widow, in Sitka, advertises her loss by painting the upper half of her face a deep black. This is her style of mourning, and much cheaper than the mourning u«ed by civilised people. An amateur electrician in Montreal, named Eugene Baldwin, has rigged up a wind-wheel, which, in connection with a dynamo and storage batteries, supplies all the lights he needs in the bouee.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 143, 16 June 1894, Page 3 (Supplement)
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