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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 502, 15 August 1902, Page 4

Tho weight of tho Eiffel Tower is estimated at 7000 tons. More than 2000 people make a living in Paris by fortune telling. The Queen-mother of Italy will visit the Holy Land in September. The Russians mako a palatable drink from the sap of the walnut tree. Three copies of tho Biblo written on leaves of fan-palm are in the British Museum. People in India don’t fancy soap. The average consumption is loz. to each person annually. ■ Grey has been decided on by the Kaiser as tho color of uhe German army war uniform.

Southern Rhodesia’s gold output in May was the highest recorded, being over 19,5000 z. Not more than 10 per cent, of domestic sorvants in England keep their places over three years. A curious perquisite of Danish Ms.P. is tho right to a free Turkish bath anywhere in the kingdom. Fifteen persons who were injured in the Ibrox Park football disaster are still in hospital at Glasgow. Small chemical firo-extinguishers havo been placed in the trains on the Central London Electric Railway. Grey horses are longest lived. Creams are decidedly delicate, and are seriously affected by very warm weather. Mr James Shand, who brought tho steam firo-engine to its present state of practical utility, has died, aged 79. It takes 2800 silkworms to make a pound of silk, and these worms eat 1561 b of leaves before they spin their cocoons. Sanguinary fighting is reported to have taken place in the Lake Chad district between a French column and Mahdists. Mme. Rejane’s (the celebrated French actress) salary for her approaching six weeks’ tour in South America is 4)15,200, France, with her colonies, covers about 3,945,000 square miles; just 200,000 square miles more than the territory of the United States. In an hour 487 omnibuses have been counted passing the junction between Oxford Stroet and Tottenham Court Road, London. Cholera is increasingat Shanghai. Thirty Europeans have been stricken, and fatal cases aro occurring daily among the natives.

Manchester will shortly possoss a municipal telephone system, the corporation having decided to apply to the Post Office for a license.

In the courso of some alterations at Gorleston pier-head, traces of an older structure have beon discovered bearing the date of 1414.

Shorncliffe first became a military camp during the Peninsular War. Since the Crimean War it has had a permanent garrison of 5000 men. Instructions have been given to the recruiting agencies in London to make special efforts to enlist men for tho four regiments of Foot Guards. A French force has ju3t concluded a successful march through the Touareg country in tho Sahara, where previously two expeditions have been cut up. Croatian newspapers report that the Servian fortress at Belgrade has been secretly re-built, and armed with French guns, contrary to the Borlin Treaty. An engine capable of developing a speed of 30 miles an hour in 30 seconds is being constructed by tho Great Eastern Railway (England) for their suburban traffic. One thousand five hundred and thirty persons are employed at the Opera in Paris. Of this number only 55 are singers whoso names appear on the programmes. Despite evory effort to obtain additional horse-power, none of the French submarines is strong enough, it is alleged, to make headway against the ocean currents. “ I always quote the American Army as being to my views the best army in the world,” writes Lord Wolseley to a naval and military journal in the United States.

The Italian Minister of Marine has decided to dispose of 16 men-of-war which are considered obsolete. They will be replaced by the vessels in course of construction.

As a punishment for striking his superior officer, Lieutenant Marchioni, of the French Army, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and dismissal from the service.

11 1 greatly regret to inform my friends,” a good old farmer announces in a Hungarian paper, " that owing to intervening obstacles the birthday of my beloved wife will not take place this year.” In presenting Ostend with a magnificent golf links, and extending the local racecourse accommodation, King Leopold of Belgium has practically made the town a free gift of £32,000 from his private purse.

Owing to the general prosperity of the steel trade, the Carnegie Company and another Pittsburg firm have voluntarily increased the wages of their employees 10 per cent. Mr Chamberlain has informed a correspondent that Canada has contributed 7300 men and Australia and New Zealand 22,000 men for service in South Africa,