The average expectation of life is now four years greater than it was fifty year,s ago. A person between tho ages of forty and fifty, according to calculations, can now anticipate living to the age of seventy-two. The only cavern in the world in which the wind produces musical sounds is believed to be Fingal’s Cave on Stafi'n Island, one of the Hebrides. During a visit there Mendelssohn was inspired to write bis overture, 1 The Hebrides.’
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Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 11
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77Untitled Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 11
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