New York horticulturists have developed a new rose, which they have named after Mrs. Roosevelt, and which they say rivals the "American Beauty." ■ The best specimens are fully sin in diameter. The assertion is made by a United States inspector of immigration that thousands of child labourers are being brought into the United States under contract, the contract labour law being evaded by means of a sign consisting of an umbrella carried by each immigrant. The spectacle of scores of hundreds of immigrants marching off a steamship, each solemnly carrying an umbrella, as if it were an article most essential to the life in America, is certainly startling. ' . > ■. There are woods of high mercantile value. . Rare woods of great beauty and price, And woods of such close grain and hardness As resist all white ants, rats, and mice. But the Woods of all woods to be lauded '/' (You all will agree, I am sure), Is the Woods to whom mankind's indebted For the only Great Peppermint Cure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 8
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