Another new occupation for women has come to light, A lady has, for some time past, been teaching navigation to young men in Plymouth. Many of her pupils have, it is said, passed the Board of Trade examination successfully, and have obtained certificates as mates and skippers. In the Solomon Islands (says a Sydney paper) there has been, for the past eighteen months, a most alarming and horrifying increase of murders by the savage and intractable cannibals. In the British-protected portected portion of tho Solomons scarcely a month goes by without the murder of some unfortunate white trader or of his native crew being reported. Larks arelessplentiful than formerly in the vicinity of London. It is computed thrat 400,000 dead larks are sold for food every year in the Leadenhall Market alone.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 131, 7 August 1895, Page 3
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