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Evening Star, Issue 19024, 20 August 1925, Page 9

Serenl British birds, including bitterns, kites, Kentish plovers, and bearded tits, are threatened with extinction, owing to the keenness of collectors to obtain eggs or specimens for stuffing. > Stated to be the oldest tree in Franco, a plane, standing in a Bouen avenue, was recently decorated with a plate which records the age of the tree as 148 years.' Shorthand is one of the arts that have never been last. A system was practised in Phoenicia before the Greeks existed as a people, and possibly also in Babylon. Wife: “I heard a noise when you came in last night.” Husband ; “ Perhaps it was my stick falling.”.- Wife: “ No. it wasn’t. It was the day breaking.” For children’s hacking cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.—£Adyt.]