To provide Paris Math provisions and fuel for one month there would be needed 34,000 oxen, 80,000 sheep, 8 000 pigs, 5,000 calves, 10,000 cwt..of'salt meat, 8,000,000 cwtofhay and straw * 2,000,000 cwt of flour,'3o,ooo cwt ot ' vegetables, 100,000 tons of coal and 14,000,000 cubic feet of wood. So said 31. Thiers in his fruitless negotiation with Count Bismarck, in respect to the proposed armistice. The Scientific Review actually praises invention of a new glove for ladies, which contain a purse in the palm Good gracious ! Don"t these scientific writers know that women never keep money in hand ! Are they not aware that money when placed in their itching palms is played old scratch with !
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Wanganui Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1111, 8 March 1871, Page 2
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