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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3256, 13 October 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)

An Austrian sportsman has shot seven lions in Abysinnia in six days, every one polished off from horseback. ■ Bow-legs invariably accompany a robust phisique; we find them one of the conspicuous features of athletes. It is estimated that 40 per cent of mankind are bow-legged. • A new method of stopping hiccough has been accidentally discovered in a French hospital. ' It consists in thrusting the tongue out of the month and holding it thus for a short time. A photo of the Boyal train on its way back to Windsor after the Jubilee.shows Her Majesty in her saloon 1 bending over, the table and carefully examining the contents of a teapot. With the assistance ofthedatost machines, a piece of leather con be transformed into a pair of boots in 34 minutes, in which time it passes through the hands of 63 people and through fifteen machines. At the opening of the Blackwall Tunnel for public traffic, a well-known whip manufacturer gave away twenty I,four, beautiful steel-lined whips’ toV the ! carmen who - first passed through the ! tunnel. 1 ■