GENERAL NEWS.
Un on average 700 British subjects are yearly born at sea.
In' Franco the doctor’s claim on the estato of m deceased patient has precedence of all others. The number of leaves on a large, 60ft. high oak tree lias boon counted, and found to exceed 6,000,0UU. An eating-house, made entirely of compressed paper, has been erected in Hamburg. ~ Tho dining-room is large enough to •accommodate 150 persons. . Telegraph wires will List for 40 years near the sea shore, but in tho manufacturing districts the same wires will last only ten years, and sometimes less. „ , The doln'hin is a wcntlienvise fish. During a fierce gale or storm at sea the mariner knows that the end is near if he can see a dolphin spoiling on tlie high waves. The result of tests carried out- in the German army proves that 681 b. is the outside weight the average soldier can carry on a days niaich without injuring his heart. It is interesting to note tint tne Ic-o-al weight of a penny is one-till i'll, of”the halfpenny one-fifth., and of the farthing one-tenth of an ounce avoirdupois. The halfpenny is ln>. in diameter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2123, 24 February 1908, Page 3
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194GENERAL NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2123, 24 February 1908, Page 3
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