An ostrich in the Zoological Gardens got hold of a gentleman’s chronometer watch some time ago and swallowed it. The striking of the quarter and half hours, which continued for three hours, appeared to excite the bird’s curiosity and created a great deal of amusement among the spectators. Seventy packages, purporting to be furniture, wero landed at Havre recently from Southampton. Upon examining them the polico found they contained a perfect arsenal of Anarchist weapons, including bombs, arms and ammunition, skeleton keys and burglars’ tools. In Germany a merchant was recently heavily fined for using a quotation from the Bible at the heart of aa advertisemeatj . ' .
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1189, 14 December 1894, Page 28
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106Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1189, 14 December 1894, Page 28
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