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Evening Star, Issue 20137, 30 March 1929, Page 3

WONDERFUL FURS MADAMi: .MK.NKPK I! F/I'UUN INC. I,a dy readers will lie pleased to learn ihiit .Miuhime Alonere iinil Co.. Lid., the noted Inr traders, are dm; in Dunedin next, weelt, wlit'ii they will hold an exhibition ot rare and beautiful Unssian end Canadian Pur Coats. Pridge ami Opera Wraps, ete., in 1 he (Jneen’s Ihdldings. lor POl'l! DAYS ONL’i. commenving TI'KSDAY Next. Oyer 'MU.UUO north ol Inis will he exhibited, all ol which will be sold under New Zealand Wholesale Prices. This r> a rare opportunity for ladies to procure a rnagnilieent imported Inr at a price usually charge/.! fur common rabbit,—[Advl.J

Ur I’aul R. lleyl, of the United States Bureau of Standards, at Washington, announces that the earth is some 592,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons heavier than had hitherto been known. Five years ago lie set about the task of weighing Liter earth lo get a result more exact than the estimate of six sextillion— the figure six lollowed by 21 ciphers,—ton?, arrived at about thirty year.-, ago. “Do vott over work in the garden?'’ Inctttircd n friend of a financier. “Well,’’ remarked the latter reflectively, ” J sometimes water my stock's.”