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Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 66

— Few people have any idea of tlie wonderful strength possessed by beetles. If; has been shown that a common beetle can draw 500 times its own weight, and a> stag beetle has been known to escape from under a box weighted with a book 1700 times greater in weight than the beetle beneath, it. —In Siaro a magnate' s dignity and power are reckoned according to the number of umbrellas he possesses. One of the.=& magnate* is pioud to begin liis titles with "Lord o£ Thnty-soveu Umbrella.-." Among certain* African tribes the grandeur of the individual nieroaces with the size, and not with the number, of umbrellas he posnesses. — For a consideration a company hat just been formed in France to relieve parliamentary candidates of all the worries o£ a general election. Posters, agents, orators, audiences— all are found. Voters, however, are not supplied, but if the candidate is not elected the company guarantees to return a third of whatever he may have paid to secure, bja £.et_unt.