Notes and Events.
The old query atlFTome is, has any one ever seen a dead donky or postboy ? In Longman's Magazine there is a little i>aper in which the circumstance of some one having seen a donkey dead is reported. The matter of interest in this tale is that the donkey died from a broken heart at the loss of his master.
. We have just come across a description of the population of Chicago —there are 400,000 Germans, 210,000 Irish, 110,000 Scandinavians and 100,000 Slavonians.
It is reported in Scribner that the strata now forming on the sea-floor is written in bits of coal and ash which are cast from our steamships as they pursue their* way over the ocean It is likely that already in the track of our transatlantic commerce, not a square rod would fail to give a trace of this waste from our coal.burning engines. As this ma. terial is not attached by the marine animals, and is very little affected by other agents of decay, it will doubtless be preserved in the strata of our time.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 October 1892, Page 2
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181Notes and Events. Manawatu Herald, 15 October 1892, Page 2
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