MISCELLANEOUS.
A hungry wasp will kill a thousand flies a day. Lord Salisbury and Sir William Y. Harcourt each weigh 18st. The Japanese are ye y much alk« physically. Recent measurements baken of an infantry reg'manb showed no T»rU« Lion excapt two Inches in helghb or 201b in weight. Some exbrao'dlnary shooting was done at Bialey hao week, a L ncolo volunteer retiring with an on^er and four misses to hla credit at 900 yards, and a North Stafford man firing eleven rounds afc the sams distance withoub fiadlng where any of them went. It was at a local corner the other night 1 . Under " the influence " they were ex. pressing virtaoas Indignation with th« faults and failings of the firab man. " I tell ye wha-at," s»ld an ardent •ptrtt, " Adam's blamed for a lot, bob, fees, '• had ac virtue ye canna brag o\" " Whlt'i that, iiool" querried his pal. " Well, h« never got fou."
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8791, 18 January 1897, Page 1
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155MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8791, 18 January 1897, Page 1
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