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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8757, 12 June 1914, Page 10

An advertisement of special .interest to builders is inserted regarding tlie sale of a spiral staircase. To' those in need of the above an excellent opportunity is afforded by Mr D. Milligan, of Kelburn, avenue, who, on account of extensive additions to his tailoring warehouse, is disposed to sell the spiral at a particularly low figure. , . ; What is said to be the largest stone ever cut'by human hands lies in an abandoned quarry near the ruins of Baalbek, in Syria. This mammoth obelisk is about 75ft long, 18ft high, and Xsft wide. Its weight is estimated at 1500 tons. High up in the wall of an old castle at Baalbek are other stones nearly as large. No one knows when the massive blocks were quarried, or how they were, moved from place to place and hoisted into position, for. the race that hewed them into shape carved no inscriptions or memorials upon them. Miss Fola la Follette, daughter of the United States senator, has become suddenly as famous as a feminist reformer as her father is fafaous as the groat political and moral reformer of the American North-West. Miss la Follette recently'married; a Mr Georgo Middleton- and positively declines to allow herself to bo called Mrs Middleton She insists her name is Miss la Follette, and declares this feminist re-, form which she advocates is due to. a, desire to keep something that has , be-j com© a symbol to herself—namely, her! name.

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