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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 30 November 1906, Page 4

There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim The screw of an Atlantic steamer costs about £4,000. A ton, of coal produces nearly ten thousand cubic feet of gas. Honey will turn to wax if left untouched for some years. Of seven Presidents of France only one has served a full term. The 'weather forecasts," which appear in the morning newspapers each day, costs England £6,000 a year, wood and coal kindled at the top of them. Arrested for embezzlement at the Mont Parnasse . railway station in Paris, a cashier named T.abesse shot himself dead on the platform. Telephonic communication has been established with the convent on the summit of the Little St. Bernard for the convenience and safety of tourists. It wgs stated by Chancellor Worrledgc at a gathering at Truro that the Bishop-elect, Dean Stubbs, of Ely, was a good carpenter and a good golfer. I I The. directors of the Nevsky Shipbuilding Yards, St. Petersburg, have informed their workmen that for lack of orders they will be obliged to pay off about 4000 men. Herr Dernburg, the newly-appointed Director of the German Colonial Department, will shortly start on a tour of inspection, lasting over a year, in the German colonies. An orchestra, consisting of 80 boys, gave a concert in which the only instruments used were common dressing combs covered, with paper at the British School, Yarmouth. i A London motorist, who was going at an estimated speed of 50 miles an hour, near Haywards Heath, ran into a nock of sheep, killing two and injuring several others so severely that they had to be killed. The thousands who have laughed over Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" will be interested in learning that the original of the hero died the other day, at San Francisco, at the age of 79. He was a pioneer steamboat engineer, and his name was Tom Sawyer. A new variety of cigarette has been placed in the French Government tobacco shops for salo. It is guaranteed free from nicotine. Inveterate smokers say it is only tobacco boiled to get rid of the nicotine, and with the poison the aroma has also vanished. 1 1 A fresh record of visitors to the birthplace of Burns is established. For the year ending September 30 the total was 56,968, as compared with 56,01i9 . in 1905. ,