One in twelve of the population of Paris is a foreigner. A philanthropic society in St Petersburg which has started the picking up of cigar ends in the streets, makes on an average something like £300 a month from this source alone. England and Australia are the only islands which exceed Cuba in natural resources. "When not wasted by war, Cuba produces, with a large share of her soil untouched, £20,000,000 worth of sugar and tobacco annually, besides the products of orchards and forests, rivers and mountain - mines.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6074, 11 January 1898, Page 3
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