The Chinese language hns 30,000 characters and thnro ;ire six different styles of writing. [ The profits from the Suez Canal are estimated to bring in the exchequer . over a million pounds a year. ' Tlioro are more suicides in Japan, ' in proportion to its population, than i in 'any other civilised country in the , world. | i Measuring only 28 by 2"> inches, Gainsborough's picture of Miss Linley and her brother has just changed hands at £40,000.
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Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13117, 27 May 1911, Page 1
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75Untitled Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13117, 27 May 1911, Page 1
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