The Americans are rapidly civilising the Philippines. The first breach of promise case has been heard, and has resulted in a verdict for the lady, Tomasa Beyes. The sisters of the late Queen Draga of Servia intend to purchase a villa on Lake Zurich and make themselves comfortable there (says the Berner Folkszeitung.) By the employment of certain rays a Bohemian inventor has discovered a means of cancelling stamps much more quickly than by the present method. While being led through the streets of Paris, a horse bit the shoulder of the groom so hard that the man died from loss of blood on his way to the Hospital. Skeleton of the mammouth (elephas primigenus) have hitherto only been found in Siberia but a large one was dug up the other day at Hont, in Hungary. According to the official report, the total attendance of readers at the public libraries of Westminster for the year ended jiast May is estimated at 2,862,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 992, 11 September 1903, Page 3
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