MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho number of Ohinoso In San Francisco in about 20,000, including 2500 women It h N-ud thai thnro in ono medical lady practising in tho West End of London who o.»rna something liko L400Q a your In 18% the British Govornmont called, in L2,400,000 worth of light gold coin, and rehabilitated it at a cost o{ L33.000. Ic \yw reported to thn Miidstono Town Council lately thit tho total cost of tho typhoid epidemic to tho ratopjyora had been L17.522. If is otloulatod tin!; 1,000,000 acres oC forest land are used up every yuar in Europe to supp'y tho va\lvr*yi with dloepors. Old glaaa bottles, which are moro or loss useloas, aro now groarid up md employed as a Bubstituto lor band hi tho prepiration of mortjr. Somo Hindoos weir mou^taclie.s and boards ; but all wear \\ hikers, which aro shaved off nt once when an adult rohuou dies, The striving oil of whhkeia ia ihua a sign of mourning.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9302, 5 September 1898, Page 1
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