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Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5658, 11 March 1893, Page 3

■' MISCELLANEOUS. In the last 50 years about £128,000,000 of gold have been obtained from the gold wash* ingß of Eastern Siberia. Silver, lead, and copper are found instill great3r quantities in' Siberia. The coal and naptha beds of Russia are another source of future wealth to the country. Out of a single spring m the vicinity of Baku Messrs Nobel Brothers obtaine I during the past year a clear profit of £260,0C0 after paying £12,000 for the rent of the ground on which the spring was tapped. England (cays a Home paper) is a goneral term commonly uaed to indicate England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, and when we speak of Englishmen the word used is a generic title for the people who dwell m these countries, and also for their descendants m Canada, Australia, New Zealaud, and Houth Africa. And that the term is a perfeotly correot and proper description is shown by the fact that about 97 per cent, (rather more than less) of the dwellers m G,reat Bti'ain are pure .English, including all those Scotch men living south of the Forth, and m large numbers to the north of it, m all the seaport towns. A Chineae diplomat is authority for the statement that a Chinaman can wish for no better luck than to have a strange dog come to the bouee with the evidont intention of linking his future fortunes with those of the family. This is especially true of Pekiu, where stray dogs, instead of being summarily dismissed from the doorstep, as is the general custom elsewhere, are taken m, oared for, and tbeir lives henoeforth surrounded with the oomforts moßt appreciated by their raoe. So great, indeed, is the superstitious feeling, that no pains are spared to induce the stranger to remain permanently with bin new-found friends. Whale fins are now at the highest price ever known m the trade, a fact which points with grim directness to the conclusion that these monsters of the deep are gradually beooming as scarce as the sea serpent. A ton of fins of the Greenland or Davis Strait variety is now worth £2700, being an advance of £400 on laßt year's price. Up to November 21, the latest newß from the Dundee whalers spoke of a catch of six tons, the estimated produot of some 207 whales. But a9 no report had been received from 17 vessels of the fleet, these figureß do not of course represent) the final result of the season's fishing, THE ADVANCE OF CIVILISATION. It is a curious phenomenon that as civiliea* tion advances the demand for eoap increases, and it is a gratifying fact that the sale of Fears' Soap has increased year by year since its 'first production, 100 years ago. — [Advt.] For rmaiudet of Ntvt tee Fourth Page,