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North Otago Times, 27 June 1906, Page 4

Each discharge of a 110-ton gun costs £OOO. Asphalt pavement costs half as much again as wood. London manufactures £2,000,000 of umbrellas annually." Over 20,000 patients are treated weekly in England's hospitals, An ostrich's egg weighs about lout, pounds-equal to *o hen's eggs. One-third of the people who go mad arc said to recover tlheir senses. Mohammedans born in Constantinople arc exempted from active service The best cork comes from. Algeria. There ate 2,500,000 of cork forest in that country. The female brain commences to w cline in weight after the age of so, the male not till 10 years later. A cubic foot of newly-fallen snow weighs 5Ub, and has twelve times the bulk of an equal weight of water. During the last fourteen years there has- been only one prisoner for trial at the South Molton (Devon) quarter ssslons, , . The Siamese have a''great horror of odd numbers, and were never known to put 8,6,7, 9 or 11 windows in a house or temple. The first meerschaum pipe was made and smoked by a shoemaker, in 1823, at Pesth, Hungary. It Is still in a museum there. . , Scientists say that 3,000,000 webs spun by young spiders would nat form a strand as great in diameter as a hair from the human head. ' Five political prisoners nave escaped from a house og detention _ in St. Petersburg by lowering themselves from the window by : a rope of sheots. Men and women be Healthy f keep your stomaoh in good working'order, _and you will cnjoy living. To do this, take Di Grassland's, great remedy,' Noxplp Wo P[*" laratlon ffiat/outea. ; Tiy itjor Mat to* ,/ «L..it . A- afrtrao.