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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 8034, 6 December 1886, Page 3

The gigantic iron tower, which is to be a leading feature of the 1889 Paris Exhibition, is to cost .£300,000. lie height of the structure will be three times that of the Arc de Triomphe. Needles were made at Nuremberg as early as 1370. They were of steel, and much the tame as we see now. The early Egyptian needles were bronze, and these were preceded by needles of bone. A policeman in the eighth arrondisement of Paris married, in 1883, a young girl who had just left an orphanage, but who had known nothing of her parents. A few days ago, shortly after the birth of a child, the officer received a cheque together with a letter asking him to kin his wife and child for the donor; the communication being signed, " Ycuy "WWi Mother.”