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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3572, 14 September 1905, Page 3

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Th« total value of the produce of the fori';-’!, exported from Canada )a.«l yea r was 954.08!) 'T'- N iea.raguji canal is finished Me I borne will be 1,350 miles nearer in .Ww York than to Liverpool hy oilM'a con I The rort, Oinking crisis of the, lust, pen fury nin 1050, when the flank of f!i ;1 1 was .saved from failure hy Ihr !‘ grnncc. Taking ■h. population of Italy as 100, iha i of (he U,n.ited Kingdom is I"'-, of 11 ei inanv, 172; of the United Si ale Tit, anil of Russia. 400. A re";,’ a I (esl of salt-water fire service pave satisfaction. Halt water «x----tingui. he.-, lire much more rapidly than the sprue amount of fresh. Tin’ heaviest precious stone is the zircon, v. huh is -I yk times heavier than an egoal quantity of wafer. The lightest is the opal, only twice as heavy as water. The balloon record has been beaten lately hy a balloon seat up from Paris ■with automatic instruments. It rose fi6,UOO feet, or KJi/t miles, and met with a temperature of 102 degrees below nero. The state of Montana owns more than one-eighteenth of its area, for the govern men i granted to (he stale two seel ions m each 1 owuship for the benchi of ihe public schools and an aggr« ga t-e of OSS.OOU acre.-, for the various slale institutions.

It in a peculiar fa<‘.i that, although ’American roads are inlinilely more wearing upon motor vehicles than are Freueh high wa v -;. the automobile builders of Prance make (heir machines mnrli heavier and stancher than are t.lie majnrity of self-propelled vehicles of American mauufactuni.