LA CROIX DE CHEVALIER DU MERITE AGRICOLE. . In addition to the Gold Medal awarded to Sharpies’ Cream Separators at the Paris Exhibition, the Exhibitor has been decorated with “The Cross of the Knights of the Merits of Agriculture.” 630
• Ifc V s B ener ally recognised that the size of the brain is not an index of mental capacity. -more important than mere bulk are the convolutions and the dentil ot the sulci of fissures of the brain. T) The illiteracy of new recruits for the British army is commented upon in tlio report just published. Only 41 in 1000 are well educated, and 18 per cent, are utterly illiterate; 35 per cent, of the applications are rejected for nhysical disability. Electricity in the hands of a Vienna doctor has turned the Ethiop white. The negro went to the hospital from an Ann tiian gaol, and was treated with electricity for four months. At the end of that timV he was cured, and also completely bleached Italy has 2710 criminals in prison to every million of her population. Britain has only 1220, and Denmark 879. "The Gladness of the heart is the life of a man.” What gladdens the heart like 1 A. and B. Mackay's Liqueur Whisky? 13
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4263, 24 January 1901, Page 7
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