In Switzerland there is a law, it is said, which compels every married couple to plant six trees immediately after the ceremony, and two on the birth of every child. They are planted on commons and near the roads, and being mostly fruit trees, are both useful and 'ornamental. The number planted amounts to 10,000 annually. A man in Hartford has stopped his newspaper because his name was printed in a list of advertised letters, and his wife, happening to see it first, went and got it for him, and found it was from a young lady, who complained that he didn’t meet her at Worcester as ho promised.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 647, 11 September 1874, Page 3
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