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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 5

'A Poplar man combines the occupations of barber and dentist. Before drawing a tooth ho sots a «ramophone going, and during the operation a parrot shouts encouraging and consoling -remarks to the victim in the chair. ■

It costs London £4 a year to educate a child in ' school. In Germany the average cost is about £3, in New York about £6. .

New York has more asylums, -hospitals, and other institutions for the relief' of. human, suffering than any other t city in the world.

.The largest choir in the world is that of the Mormon Temple at _Salt Lake City. It consists of §50 voices, all beautifully trained. :__,

In Egypt the natives believe that crocodiles cry and moan like men in distress, in order to attract and make a prey of the unwary.

A church in the villageof Alsohar mor, in Hungary, which stood on a piece of land, was bought by a priest for Is 6d. •

Th<J Kaiser was warned as lie was about to cross, into French territory at tho Schlucht that an attempt on his life had been- planned by two Anarchists, and owing to insufficient protection, turned back.

There is in the Port Gerinein dis- ! trict (South Australia) a . sailor answering the hamd of Charles Carey, who,- at the last moment, escaped from the ill-fated ship Loch Finlas, which was lost off "the Tasmanian coast recently. According to Carey's statement (says a Melbourne paper) When the ship was in Port Pirie hemade -a couple of attempts to escape but was arrested and : placed oil board. Then one night, when the vessel was four or five miles' from the he slid dbwn \ rope, and, with his'outfit on his head, struck out in tlie darkness to battle with' the waves and risk the monsters of the deep in ; his effort to escape. After having swum about half the distance to his joy a fishing boat loomed out of the darkness, and he was soon on board, much : to the astonishment of the fishermen, parey now congratulates himself on his last escape being successful. ■ "■•-.■"•.■.■