MISCELLANEOUS.
Truth is like a torch ; when ahakon it ahineß, Lord Tonnyoon hao jolnod a committee which aira/j at reoouing from poverty the survivora of the Halaolava charge. • One of the Six Hundred hae been found in Hamstead workhouse. A Waterloo veteran who resides near Oswestry has just attained hia 90ch year. He haa been married four times, and if the father of 24 obiL dron. Acsording to returns of tho Education Department, 2 358,560 ohildron in tho elementary schools of England and Wales, have oarned a grant of LI 17,928 for einging by note. Singing oy ear, which i» paid a lower grant, earned L33.5H with 1,340,581 echolara. Six years ago only 20 per con t were taught by note; now the proportion is G3 per cent. The inoivaso appeara to be duo to the Tonic Sol-fa flystera, for tho number of ochooli or departments adopting that Byafcem has risen, ainco the year 1884 from 3871 to 12,790.
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North Otago Times, Issue 777, 21 July 1890, Page 4
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159MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Issue 777, 21 July 1890, Page 4
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