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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1847, 31 July 1907, Page 48

London consumes 200,000 gallons of milk daily, the product of 150,000 cows. It takes 15,000 men to milk the cows, and 40,000 milkmen to distribute the Reckoning the entire population of the world to be 1,500,000,000, the brains oi + bis number would weigh 2,000,000 tons, oi- aa much as 100 ironclads of ordinary size. . Of 804,500 bales of wool shipped from Australia last season, 252,200 went to the United Kingdom, while 503,500 were taken on European account. 4. group of New Yoi'k artists lias purchased a site in West Fifty-seventh street, and will erect a splendid studio building on it at a cost of .£160,000. A British company has obtained permission to run three, steamers on the Tigris, the famous river of ancient Nineveh. , , More than 5000 bicycles were purchased in a fortnight in Johannesburg because of a breakdown in the electric tramway Sy piea\sure and ease, says the Bishop of Durham, have taken the place of paternal duty, and its sacred functions have become negleotecU