OF ALL NATIONALITIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3573, 16 September 1905, Page 4

OF ALL NATIONALITIES.

Pifteen hundred pounds bias been ;n by Sir John Long “to promote teaching of the songs of Scotland’' mg the .school Dundee, ypboid fever in South Africa has been spread largely by means which f sanitation could not cope with, the I germs being combed into food and water by dies, an A by the dust which pervades evcrythiifr. - The Formosan ;» .d mines are situated in the neighm.rhood of Ke.ung. The output of gold in 1898. was about 112 pounds; in 1 : 89», IMS pounds, and for the first six- months of ,1900, 3G5 pounds, The gold"is all sent to Japan. Eighteen peasants of the district of Tscherdinsk bearing the fami.y name of n ;av«l (devil) have c m, a petition to me cm ’ring fw . sion to uiiitilit'.' name .e iingolubow (God *o This (".quest was granted '■;u: empire contains more tL„ ...cv, pt ndeiii radical groups, it • is a vcc 1 1" ’; ;<>wfr of (label, r.vtn with -hr on.-iaritm oi to be rin and centra Aria there ia i. iritis in llu-vsia, in Euixp; and the Caucasus alone, 46 different peoples. Poland has a wealth of animal superstition-. Tin. goat is there considered tha n.-t harbinger of iuck, while the wolf, crow and pigeon are looked upon AS unlucky. The skin of a cat worn on the chest is alleged to cure consumption. To cure cataract in the tye, take a black cock, make him look at the sun, look at it yourself, then throw the cock on the ground, jump on a fence and crow three times.”