A flower cut in the morning will lasS twice as long as one cut in the 'day! then the sun is shining upon it. Fully one-third of the textile goods manufactured in France arc the products of female labour. Lead-pencil casings annually consume the product of 4,000 acres of cedar trees. Buffalo and camel races arc among the amusements provided for guests at Egyptian hotels. In China an inferior upon horseback, meeting a superior, dismounts and waits until the other has passed. Persia has no distilleries, breweries, or public-houses, and native wine is the only intoxicating beverage used. If a Chinaman dies while being tried for murder in his country, he is considered guilty. In the British Isles the average du l ration of human life is 44 years-, in India among the natives it i* 24 years. According to scientists, not a single microbe exists in mountain air above the height of 2,000 ft. Of the 11,483.000 .lews in the world, 8,376,!;f)9 are. in Europe. In the Russian Empire there are about G,'210,800,
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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 67, 31 January 1918, Page 4
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