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Mr Earnest G. Wiese, in London, performed the feat whilo blindfolded, of typing a memorised sentence at the rate of 218 words a, minute. Flo alsotyped a passage from a- hook at the rate of 110 word's per minute, at the same time answering (piestions addressed to him in English, French, and German. "There are some people who do not like gossip, but still .seem mysteriously to know the news." "It is oddly unpleasant — like sitting down suddenly on the ground when you expect, a chair —to suddenly find yourself of no importance after a lifetime of preferential treatment.'' "'Hie God of. Happiness only grows visible as he departs." —From'"Love in a Little Town/' by J. E. Buekros*-.

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Mataura Ensign, 2 November 1911, Page 5

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