Probate duty has been paid on JL811,5*21 Is 8d as the net value (the gross value being L 523,304 5s 9d) of the personal estate of Mr Thomas Charles Baring, late M.P. for the City of London, who died at Rome on the 2nd April last, aged fifty-nine yean. The bequests solely concern the family of the testator.
In Japan the dead are always buried with the heads towards the north and feet towards the south. A living Japanese will never tledp in that position. In sleeping rooms of private houses, and of hotels even, a diagram of the points of the compass is pasted upon the ceiling for the benefit o( timid guests.
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Evening Star, Issue 8611, 3 September 1891, Page 1
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114Page 1 Advertisements Column 7 Evening Star, Issue 8611, 3 September 1891, Page 1
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