OF PASSING INTEREST.
The world produces a million pounds of silk a week. Oxford university has voted to do away with the Sunday afternoon sermons. The railway companies of Great Britain pay on an average £ 1,300 a day in compensation for damage. In size, not counting colonies, the European powers stand in this or- , der: Russia, Austria, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy. Several pairs of pigeons which a scientist has observed in Paris have raised their young in nests made entirely of hairpins collected on the paths of the Luxembourg. Fort Worth papers are authority for the statement that a conductor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas railroad, during the recent rush to El Reno, to reg>ter for government homesteads, collected, on one run, 241 I -•-** tickets on the tops ol the
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 4
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132OF PASSING INTEREST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3528, 30 May 1905, Page 4
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