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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1027, 21 October 1903, Page 2

Paris lias the biggest debt of any city in the world. It amounts to 400,000,000 dollars. Cats are licensed in Berlin,, and every cat in that city must wear a metal badge bearing a number. In India the native barber will shave you when you sleep, without waking you, so light is his touch. Between 22,000 and 23,000 carloads of oranges will be shipped from them California this year. At Kieff, Russia, 'a Jew said to be 121 years old has died. He remembered having seen Napoleon I. At Hatton Asylum, Warwick, a lunatic who had been thiry-six years in the institution died, havag cost the country altogether £BOO foe- his maintenance. Herrings cured n Donegal last seaton fetched higher prices :n America and Germany than any other kind. During the last five months fourteen pasenger trains have been “ held up ” by, brigands on the Caucasian line. No fewer than 20,000 persons are rejorted missing in London every year. Inly about one fifth of these missiDg perone are ever accounted for by suicides ,nd in other ways. The others disappear com friends for ever. Many of them are wanted ” by the police, which explains rhy they do not reappear.