Some Curious Facts
fm migrants to Canada this year me comprised as follows:—United KiiicrdoiD. 12-'Voi:i. 'United States, 12.1 ,!.VI. Europeans, 61,620. The first trial for broach of promise in Engl .ind wns held in tlio roipiii of Qnrion Elizabeth. Tiliore aro now 14,000 acres under fruit cultivation in Troland—a largo increnso on previous totnls. in England (ho first true lighthouse Avas tho Eddystonc, built in 1700; Iwn c'Mitiiries before Christ, however, firo« had boon lighted on n tower near Alexandria, Ejrypt. as n warning to mariners. Bridjres were first built with an a roll by the Romans. One-fourth of tho enno crop of tho world k rr\-r,v;n in the British Empire. .At its nearest point, tho mm is fll .250,000 miles from the onrth .
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1912, Page 4
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124Some Curious Facts Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1912, Page 4
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