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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 54, 15 October 1887, Page 2

John De Mier, of Allentown, Mo., claims to be the oldest volunteer fireman in the United States, He joined Relief Company No 7, of Cincinnati, 0., in 1828. He is now 80 years of age.

The exodus of farmers and peasants from Central Russia to Western Siberia threatens to result in an agricultural crisis. The Russian Government may take steps to check the migration,

Mrs Florence Nightingale has published an appeal to the women of England to help in providing a central home and adequate organisation for the Women’s Protective and Provident League.

A hospital for animals will soon be erected in London, and at the same time free dispensaries will be opened, where the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs, and birds of the poor can be treated when ill.

The manufacture of linoleum is about getting a footing in Germany. At pre sent there are no more than three factories, though the article has been made in England for abou*; twenty years.

The India Times says that “nearly £5,000,000 have been invested in search of gold in India, and that not £5OO worth of that precious metal have been obtained, after three years hard labor.”