The first almanac was printed in Hungary in 1470. Russia’s death-rate is 41 per 1000 the highest in Europe. Tho average age of British cavalry horses is fire years and two months Devon (England), with 1,6/l.lbß acres, lias 460,000 acres of uncultivated land. Eifteen thousand persons are engaged in tho manufacture of violins iii Germany. , The sale of British eggs and poultry increased in 1906 by £1,500,000 over the sales of 189 S. _ , The cost of the first British ironclad was £400,000, or about a quarter that of the latest type. Italv owns the world’s three largest churches- —St. Peter’s, Rome; the Dnomo, Milan; and Wt. Paul’s at Rome. Dining cars were first used upon an English railway in 1562. They were attached to trains between Doncaster aiul Harwich.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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129Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)
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