The London Lancet reports a case of dejiruin trethVna in a young girl caused by chewing tea leaves. The territory of Moresnet, near Air-la Chappelle, on the bonndary line between Prussia and the Netherlands, is an independent community,-and has the curious distinction of being the smallest State in the"world. It contains only six square kilometers, and when originally recognive'd as an independent power, had only fifty squalid Jhuts, the inhabitants of which worked some zinc mines. It now, however, has eight hundred houses, and it« people, are quite w«ll-to-do. Its administration is conducted by a Burgomaster and- ten Councilmen. Each inhat)itant pays six francs a year, which keeps the school and. roads in repair. There is no military service, and the standing army, consits of one mas, who i» the policeman: This is really an ideal Sepublic for it has no' poor and no rich.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 7 May 1887, Page 4
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