The other day there was sold for £100 Egyptian a grain of rice on w'-.ich were written tho first chapter of the Koran and a speech of tho first Cal:~>h, amounting to 350 wor's Pliny mentions the existence of a copy of the "Iliad" which could be kept in a nutshell. A Toledo printer is credited with producing an edition of "Don Quixote" which occupied 51 cigarette papers. A Liverpool man once wrote Goldsmith's "Traveller," consisting of 4SB lines, in a square .of 3&in. A circle three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter has been found ample room and verge enough for the Lord'i Prayer. The Voddas, an almost extinct race of Ceylon, have two remarkable •characteristics. None of them has bceni known to laugh, and they seem unable to .tell a lie.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 2
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132Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 28, 2 August 1926, Page 2
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