In some parts of Holland a birth is announcc4 by fastening a silk pincushion on the door. If the pincushion is red, the baby is a boy; if white, a girl. The film of a soap-bubble is the 2,500,000 th part of an inch in thickness.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 10
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46Untitled Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 10
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