Sugar exists not; only in the cane, beetroot, and maple, but in the sap of 187 other plants and trees. Aluminium cost £170 per kilogram in 1850. To-day the same amount is to be bought for 2s 6d. Seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-seven umbrellas were brought last year intc the Lost Property Office at Scotland Yard, -and 3214 purses. 'i Brooklyn Bridge weighs 34,000 tons. i The superstructure alone o£ the great Forth • Bridge weighs 42,000 tons. Lord Salisbury was born only nine days after- the death of George IV-, and sa ASS just missed living in four reigns* '■' ''\
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11771, 28 September 1901, Page 5
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