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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2032, 18 February 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

The decipherers of the papyri which have been hrou iu to Vimrm from hi rayoum, have learned from one of thi in the (•xieirnc': o’a town in Egypt, all tracyf whjc.i seems to have disappeared for the oW L-“ ( years. The document is a p»!.' r,,: i a 1,11,0 over Ift. long by Hi. wide, coniurnmg a n ar r : n"f‘ contract in Greek, and is we ll preserved. The "date is not given, but.l’rofessors Karabscek and Westflcy believe it belongs to the earlv part of the sixth century. Tnc bride, groom was named Thcon, the bride Maria, S to bad a fortune of her own amounting to IpO gold pieces, and the future husband engages to find for her food and clothing, and oven thing suitable for “ an ordinary legiti mate 1 wife.” There are witnesses and a notarial certificate. All the parties arc described as belonging to the town of Jn<*mnopolis. The editors declare that they cm find no mention of this place among any lists of the towns, etc., of Lower I’gjpt.

Forty varieties of rice arc grown in Burmah, the latci.t a irti'ions to the territories of Great Britain. These range in hue from white to black. Burmab also produces manr Other kinds of edible grains, one of which is known as Job’s Tears. According to It. Thomas Moore this gra*s derives its name (tom the largo, round, shining fruit it hoars, in which can he traced some resemblance to tears. It occurs iu Japan as well as the Asiatic continent.