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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1409, 9 April 1912, Page 6

One of the most extraordinary freak societies ever known has just been started in Vienna by the Baroness Mohu. It is known as the "Big Feet," its object being to spread the theory that big feet are not •only healthy, but beautiful. Tho first petrol-propelled tram cars use<l in England on a track have just been inaugurated at Morcambe,-- when a. largo number of experts gathered to witness the trial of the new system. The cost of fuel le stated to be only a penny per.mile. Tn curious circumstances a. fine now jchool has been built at the little town of Fcodorina, in Russia. The townsfolk erected it from the proceeds of a voluntary tax of one penny per glass of vodka consumed, which they imposed on theinEolves for a whole year. At a. wedding that took niace recently at Colombo, Cevlon, the bridegroom dressed up as tho bride, and the latter as tho form'w, and the ceremony was gone through without (he two people concerned beine identified. Their friends are now cinestioning the validity of such a m.arriage, A coffin-tramcar is going to appear shortly in Paris. The cemetery of Vinciennes is full. urn! 11 n ™' burial ground has been matle three miles out. This is too great a distance for the ordinary funBral8 r al procession, and the municipality has Fciiveil tho nroblom by having a special colli n-tra men r ronstruc'.wl and laying down a lino right to tho gates of the cemetoryi