was at Craveline in 1654. Three thousand people were killed. Cleopatra's Xeedle is 66 feet high, ana weight 140 tons. The Luxor monument in Paris, also a single stone, is 76 feet high, and weighs '240 tons. The death-rate in the navy is only 10'4, compared with 19'6 in the British mercantile marine. Eighty per cent, of all eggs sold are hen eggs. Sixty men emigrate from England tor every 40 women. l-'ranee exports 450 million sardines, weighing in all 20,000 tons. Seven in every 10,000 people who die in England are murdered. Germany has the record number of insane—lo6,ooo, against our SI,OOO. The average weight of salmon caught in British waters is eight pounds. Between 1850-IS6O one and a-half million people emigrated from Ireland,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 248, 28 October 1901, Page 3
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