Records show that dwarfs have been known to live to the patriarchal age of ninety-nine years, whereas giants nsually die while comparatively young. Statistics prove that neariy twothirds of the letters carried fey the world’s postal services are written, sent to, and read by English-speaking people. It is reported that in alluvial deposits of Madagascar there have been: found skeletons of ostriches which when alive were fourteen to fifteen feet in height. In the Russian cavalry aluminium shoes for horses have been tested, Each test was made with one aluminium shoe and three of iron. In every test the former outlasted the latter.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 721, 7 April 1922, Page 9
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103Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 721, 7 April 1922, Page 9
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