BY THE WAY.
♦ Summery. Mayoral election close at hand. Candidates all quiet, so far. Delicious ad. from Coolgardie paper : — " Wauted a barm lid for Kalgoorlie. Must be tall, strong, aad physically attractive, with smill reachy waist aad good features. One with city experience preferred. "LiHuug Chang Jo aes" is ths fearsome name with which a hearties Sydney father has burdened his helpless and inoffensive offspring. Among ths English nobility 19 per cent are childless. Whaat is thought to be the cereal oldest in cultivation. , The Greeks and Arabians us?d a violet as a cure for wouuds. In the course of a recent lecture, a complexion specialist remarked to the 2000 women present : — ' Feather pillows are the greatest wrinkle-producers. I never use a pillow of any kind, and at forty-two have no traces of wrinkles.' The Grafton municipality, New South W.iles, has prohibited the riding of cycles within the town boundaries at a greater speed than ten miles aa hour.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 214, 12 November 1896, Page 5
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159BY THE WAY. Mataura Ensign, Issue 214, 12 November 1896, Page 5
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