Men comprise 40 per cent, of the teachers in the public echools of Sweden. Mr George Mead, an interesting Peterborough personality, -who has just died, possessed property estimated at £50,00o! and he left no will. He led a simple life, his diet being chiefly bread, potatoes, and hot -water, and he was in the habit of running a mile every morning at the rear of the GathedraL His eareraness and frugality were continued "to the day of his death, when there -vraa halfpenny left in the house He was in Ma seventyninth and a bajcbeloc.
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Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 8
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95Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 8
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