It was so cold in Denmark in 1403 that the wolves could not stay there, and crossed to Jutland on the ice. Roumania is the most illiterate country in Europe. Out of a population of 0,000,000, nearly 4,000,000 neither write nor read. The (shipbuilding—excluding warships -output of the United Kingdom last year was only 920,000 tons, against 1,607,890 tons in 1907. In East India the natives find amusement in pitting flgnting-fIA against each other in the water, as Cubans and others fight gamecocks. The Emperor of China, King Menelik of Abyssinia, the Ameer of Afghanistan, the Sultans of Morocco and Zanzibar, and the Khedive oi Egypt all maintain wtrologers.,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 679, 31 March 1909, Page 2
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