ODDS AND ENDS.
London has 11,500 licensed public cabs, of which 2,500 are driven by the owners. One. hundred detectives are employed in the Bon Marche in Paris, whose only labor is to watcli for shoplifters. It is said that wood ashes mixed with salt will protect hogs from cholera if kept where they have free access to it. A strange fact ig that really good prints,' etchings and engravings often bring move than their market price at auction. Some idea of the stamp collecting craze ruu ". obtained from tho fact that it employs -a .u^,.:. .1 of about §8,000,000 and engages the attention of about 300,---000 collectors. Tlie terrors of the. famous whirlpool of Clmrybdis, or G-olofaro, have been much exaggerated. It is hardly dangerous even to a small vessel, while large shi^s do not fear it at all.
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 2
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140ODDS AND ENDS. Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 2
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