The namber of dpgs in Great Britain on which the 5s annual Ift* was paid in the financial year 181fl-72» was 1,127,914. Thi.shows a tax paid on a dog (at least six m ntbs old) for every 23 persons. There has been a dog tax now for 76 years. It may be of use to note, the Banffthre Journal says, that a little instrument has neon constructed which tests, in an easy way, the purity of milk. It consists of a small glass tube, which, when insetted in the milk to be tested, floats at a certain height if the milk be pure, a r id sinks deeper in proportion os the milk is diluted with water,
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Evening Star, Issue 3199, 22 May 1873, Page 3
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117Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3199, 22 May 1873, Page 3
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