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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1036, 1 June 1894, Page 3

The Charlecote Estate, Sfcratford-on-Avon, on which Shakespere is said to have gon6 deer-stealing, is in the market. A microbe never lacks company. One of them can be the progenitor of about 230,000,000,000 of his kind in forty eight-hours. Malta has a language, of its own, derived from the Carthaginian and Arabian tongues. The nobility of the island speak Italian. Under a law recently put in force in UVance only physicians graduated in France are allowed to use the title f Doctor ' in that country. Socialastic ideas progress in Germany ; 22,980 dwelling-houses are owned by the Prussian Government. They have been built for the State Railway employes. . Prohibitionists will be sorry to hear that man is not the. only creature : that shows a partialiaty for alcohol. Mr Tait, in a recent treatise on alcohol, says wasps have the game proclivity, He has watched the wasps eagerly attacking over ripe fruits, when the sugar had already in some degree been converted into alcohol. Around such fruits especially rotten plums : and grapes, the wasps may be seen fighting and struggling for precedence ; and afterwards when they are absolutely drunk with the spirit, they crawl away in a torpid condition, and hide themselves in the grass till they 'have slept off the orgie. Tho wasp, in his cups, is even more quarrelsome than usual, and will sting most yenomously on the slightest provocation, '- .. ,