Tho Order of Oddfellows reports a membership at the close of the year of 961,500; the Foresters of over 900,000;, the Hearts of Oak, of about 250,000 ; the other friendly, societies bringing the total' .membership! to nearly 5,000,000, with funds. amounting to £35,000,000. During the fishing season no fewer than 360,000,000 herrings were landed ot Yarmouth. . . In a picture on the palace wall at Thebes, Ramoses 11. is represented as playing with his ‘wives at draughts. The “men,-* represented- by small- ninepins, were apparently about an inch in length. - Given-a map and a woman of equal size and weighty the touguo of the woman is smaller than that of the man. Its lightness may account for its more ranid. vibration; ■ There, are t 000.000- tqns of r stone in tho Pyramid of Cheops.' It could be built for £4,000.000 to-day.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4313, 23 March 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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