MISCELLANEOUS.
k fine ostrioh Is calculated to yield L500 worth of fcaihors, Thdro is a clock ii Brussels that is kept going by the w'nd. Ib takes 72,000 tons of ptper to imko the post oardo used, la England each year, The florin Is the only pieoa of money that has escaped boiog giron a slang name. In Japan, coins aro generally of Iron, and la Siatn they »ro ohiefly of porcolttio. Thoro are two hundred and slxty-nlno color varieties of the oryeaotheraam to bo aeon in Japan. Daring tho laab ?5 yearn tho American i people havo Imported L36,000,000 worth of precious stones. Its Is siid th*t vegetable ooaps aro raora nourishing and not) aa hoitlog eo those made from moat atook. The oircier pigeon wa9 in aao by tho State Department of the Ot^om>»n Empire as early as tho fourteenth Empire WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS Is exceedingly mellow, and infinitely more beneficial and desirable than the cheap unmedicated beverages of everyday use.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9174, 11 April 1898, Page 1
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162MISCELLANEOUS. North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9174, 11 April 1898, Page 1
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