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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 6

The inhabitants of Charlesworth", near Glossop, aro enjoying the curious experience of listening to a stammering cuckoo.- At first it was thought it had not found its note, but time has gone on, and, undoubtedly, it is tho bird's natural note. Its struggles Ito get out its call are causing much amusement. Last year tho total miantity of fish landed in English and Welsh ports exceeded that of any previous year. Tho landings surpassed those of 1912 by more thau one and a half million hundredweights, and in value by .£1,260,000. Tho total value, says the annual report on sea fisheries, issnesd by.- the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, is moro that .£10,000,000. Many sightseers stood outside St. Paul's Cathedral recently watching the operations of workmen high up at tho base of the gilded cross at the top of the dome. Tho men were engaged in washing a year's accumulation of London's grime from tho gilt. Once a year Iho gilt needs a thorough spring cleaning, but regilcling takes place only once in a quarto of a century. 0 sing a song of one and six, In Hay, July, or June, For such a song will givo you tone, Whene'er you're out of tune. Whene'er you sneeze and shiver so, And seek some soothing cure, Just oond a soon so no ono and six; For Woods' Great Peppermint Curo!— Advt,