The most illiterate country in Europe is Roumania. The last census shows that, out of a population of about 6,000,000, nearly 4,000,000 neither write nor read. _ _ . Thanksgiving Day in the united States is nominally 'appointed each year by the President; but the same day is invariably chosen—the last Thursday in November. The Tsar lias -presented the volunteer, fleet cruiser Kherson to Prince Nicholas of (Montenegro'. The vessel can' he readily converted into a kind of -unarmoured cruiser. _ Discussing the new German taxes in the ltcichstag the oxample of England was pointed to. The Prussian Finance (Minister replied that death was not gratis in England. • Norwegian fir makes the best masts. Next come, ; m order, the spruce fir, American white pme, and Scottish pine. \
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2409, 26 January 1909, Page 3
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