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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6114, 16 December 1898, Page 4

A cnmel can travel one hundred miles a clay. | British India has 10,417 licensed I opium shops. A Russian is not legally of ago till he is twenty-six years old, An elephant takes up tho collections in some of the Hindoo temples. America is tho only country which can boast of a daily musical paper. Ths late Duke of Somerset devoted his whole life practically to driving. Authorities say that a fatal fall from a great height is absolutely painless. During tho last century 100 lakes in the Tyrol have subsided and disappeared. Over seventy millions of sewing needles are mado weekly in the town ofltedditch. A female town crier fulfils her duties in the Scottish town of Dunning, Perthshire, The church in the monastery of St. Bernard is the highest place of worship in Europe The National Lifeboat Institution has saved over 45,000 lives since its establishment in 1824, Thimbles appear to have been known to tho Romans, as some were found at Herculaneum, Last year, in Paris, 14,840 horses, 257 donkeys, and 40 mules worn killed and consumed as food, Herat, in Afghanistan, is tho city which has boon tho most ofton destroyed, Fifty-six times in all. Tho total cordage required for a first-rate man-of-war weighs about eighty tons, and exceeds £3OOO in value. Fat people, as a rule, are less able lo resist the attacks of disease than persons who aro comparatively thin. Thirty thousand women spend their livesindrivingand steering tho canal boats in southern and midland England. The United States have about 900,000 telephones in uso; Germany, 140,000; England, 75,000; France, 35,000; Switzorlnnd, 30,000. The manufacture of lucifer matches is a monopoly of the Governments of Fraiice,ltnly,Spain,Portugal|Grecce, Servia and Koumania, Coal from Japan is gradually encroaching upou the Welsh coal in East Indian markets. It is the custom of Persian ladies, when they make social calls, to throw roses at one auother, Chinamen havo a way of tricking hens, so that they assist in the batching of fish, Fish eggs are carefully placed in an eggshell, which is then sealed, and put under an unsuspecting lieu. In a fow days the spawn is warmed into life, and and tho contents of the shell are then cast into a shallow pool, where the sunshine completes the work, Sir Henry Thompson was once an enthusiastic vegetarian, He has changed his mind regarding that system of dieting, Ho states that "fow personscun sustain their health and a fair amount of strength on a strictlyivegetable diet." Ornnge-juico is one of the best dressings for black shoes or boots. Take a slice or quarter of an orange and rub it on tho shoe or boot; then, whon dry, brush with a soft brush until the shoe shines like a lookingglass. The area of the amber fields of Prussia is nearly fifty miles long by in breadth, and it is reckoned that ovory twelvo squnro feet of surface will produce a pound, the value of which ranges from eightpence up to £4 sterling,