The French telephone authorities have invented a new apparatus which is to be called the “howler.” It is to prevent any one from forgetting to replace his receiver at the end o. a call, and emits a sound resembling tli it of a dog in pain. Poverty stricken England 1 Sir Albert Rollitt. chairman of the statutory Inspection Committee of tne Trustee Savings Bank, in opening •> new bank at Preston recently, said that the total deposits in the savings hanks of the Old Countrv amounted to over £230,000,000. A gander on a farm .at 'llolheach. Lincolnshire, lias made a friend of a cow, and follows it to the field every morning, and also when it comes i"> to bo milked, and tho couple can bo
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)
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