MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
A young man in a London Police Court aski j d for a summons to compel a young woman to give up an engagement ring, she having broken off the engagement- The magistrate said she could not be made to return the ring. The armies of the civilised nations of the world number 8,600,000 men. Besides the loss of their time and labour, cost at least £2OO a year each, and that amounts to £720,000,000 Pivsbyceriaus in Japan number nearly 11,000. Paper teeth are now being manufacture! in Germany. It was during the First Empire that sugar was first made from beetroot. The Napoleonic wars had caused the interruption of commerce between Prance and the sugar-growing parts of America, and thus scientific men studied how to extract sugar from other plants, which succeeded so well that since that period beetroot sugar has entirely superseded the sugar cane in Prance. It is the whitest sugar that is made.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 4, Issue 20, 14 March 1893, Page 3
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159MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 4, Issue 20, 14 March 1893, Page 3
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