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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3802, 12 April 1913, Page 4

There are 9,000 cells in a square foot of honeycomb. A needle-machine turns out 1,50.0,000 needles a week. An Atlantic fog is usually about 30 miles in diameter. Chinese streets are often not more than eight feet wide. Tho greatest depth of the sea yet discovered is 32,089fb. Fully 2,500 persons commit suicide in Russia every year. Nearly 1,200 persons have been buried in Westminster Abbey. The people of London are computed to spend £1,200,000 daily. In the Rock of Gibraltar there arc seventy miles of tunnels. Lemons may he kept fresh for weeks by burying them in dry sawdust. Fifty thousand Bank of England notes are, on the average, made daily. Only about one out of every fifteen persons has both eyes in perfect condition. Canada lacks only 237,000 square miles to he as large as the whole Continent of Europe; it is nearly thirty times as large as Groat Britain and Ireland, and is 300,000 square miles larger than the United States. If eyelashes are cut, the eyes are weakened. Ireland has 3,000,000 acres of peat deposits. . It is claimed that grey horses live the longest.