As to the pursuit of knowledge, 1 go so far us to maintain that there are many tilings that a decent person uoght not to know: for instance, how his children would taste if they were boiled. —Mr Bernard Shaw. Mercury completes a trip around the >un every *s days, which gives the 1 tie planet a year that is shorter than a spring or a summer on our own earth. Since the planet travels an orbit inside ours, it passes between til 0 earth and sun every 116 days.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20783, 18 April 1939, Page 9
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