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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 102, 23 January 1918, Page 5

A nurse giving evidence in the Shoreditch County Court, London, said sho was standing in a tramway-car, having given her seat to a soldier, "as' most women do nowadays." For an Aberdeen Angus five-year-old cow, belonging to Lord Rosobery, £GO9 was paid at a salo at Aberdeen, and £588 was paid for a seven-year-old cow of the same herd. London is mentioned by Bede as tho metropolis of tho East Saxons, in tho year 604, lying on the banks of the Thames, "tho emporium of many people coming by sea and land," Weighing 21b. 13J0z., a potato grown on a Wandsworth (England) allotment, was the winner of the first prize in the Vacant Land Cultivation Society's Competition. The full moon is 8.7 times brighter than the moon in first quarter, and 10 times brighter than in last quarter; the latter because the last quarter shows more dark patches than the first, A Danish inventor, it is announced, has discovered a procoss for making newsprint paper from seaweed. Tho now process is said to entail.half the cost of making paper from wood pulp, ,' Venetian gondolas are- black, in, consequence of a'law passed 300 years ' ago compelling uniformity of colour. It i was passed to restrain . the oxtrava- j ganco of ornamentation then prevailing.