LATE SHIPPING. The Pateena arrived nt Wellington at 2 o’clock this morning from Nelson and Picton.
Shaving off whiskers is a sign of mourning among the Hindoos. Some wear moustaches and beards, but all wear whiskers, which are shaved oft when an adult relation dies. The staple crop of Chinn is said to bo sweet potatoes. There is no section which does not raise them, and they are a substantial part of the diet of a greater part of tho Chinese people. The Eskimo language is so polysynthelic that one word is able to express a whole sentence. For iho word “Uotivoqt” which means: “The hairy side of the skin is getting loose." A patent has been taken out in America for the manufacture of “pearls” from the crystalline lenses of tho eyes of fishes and sea animals, which arc said to ho almost indistinguishable from genuine pearls. Tho tallest and shortest people in Europe, the Norwegians and the La,pps, live side by sido t
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10522, 25 February 1920, Page 11
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