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Miss Florence Nightingale, the Crimean nurse, completed her sevontieth year on May 8. The ' New Review ' tells a story of a little girl conning her geography lesson, and poring in a puzzled way over the map of Africa. " Dear me " said her mother, " when I was at school all | the map was white, except round the j coast, and we had ouly a few names to learn." "Ob, yea," said the child, " It's all through that horrid man, Stanley." The desert of Sahara is slowly becoming inhabitable, with the aid of science. The lower Sahara is an immense basin of artesian waters, and the French are forming immense oases with skill and success, so that the number of cultivated tracts is increasing rapidly. After n. period of thirty years, forty-three oases havo 13,000 inhabitants, and 120,000 trees between one and seven yoars old, and 100,000 fruit trees.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2181, 8 July 1890, Page 4
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149MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2181, 8 July 1890, Page 4
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