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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 44, 31 May 1907, Page 7

France makes twenty-six million pairs of gloves and exports eighteen million pairs every year. The children of the blackest Africans are born whitish. In a month they become pale yellow; in a year, brown; at four dirty black; and at six or seven glossy black. In the good old times when oil was used in lighthouses a 6000 candlepower lamp was considered immense. The latest electric lighthouse built in France (Heve, at Havre) will have a Dower ef 2,500,000 candles.