Somo of the tops with which tho Chinese > amuse themselves are as big as barrels. It ■ takes throe men to spin one, and it gives off ■ a sound that may bo heard several hundred yards. During the last five years an average 7 amount of more than .£20,000,000 yearly } has been wasted in England in the pro- i motion of companies yielding no return to shareholders. A street musician in Vienna, for many . years regarded as a poor old man, on being arrested for drunkenness turned out to be a < woman. She confessed having dressed as a'7 man for 30 years, having found it easier to j get an honest living so than in woman’s clotblly* ing. . - 1 'I Although tho BrirLh South African Ccmpany was not formed until 1880, it is already a master of a territory larger than the Capo . Colony. •
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2543, 22 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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