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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3574, 19 September 1905, Page 4

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A German tourist in Corea writes that tiie usual bill of far* consists of dog’ meat, rice and beans. A Turk holds that the day begins exactly at sunset. At that thtne he sets his clocks and watch*® ®t the hour of 12.

Vladivostoclc, which 40 years ago consisted of four Chinese fishermen’s huts, is now a flourishing oily of 60,000 souls, and Khabarofak and Blogovcstchensk are not far behind In wealth and population.

Corea is believed to be liafe ia gold, but it all belong* to the king; who gets 25 per cent, of the groM earnings, and whose eonssat lor xnihiog undertakings is hard to got. Nevertheless about 12,500,000 of the met*) was secured last year. The Chinese hire the idea that milk revives the youthful powers, and that it has special virtue as a winter food for old people. Picture* and «ho*a*ters illustrating this idea, as well &* the value of it for baby food, would without doubt increase the sole of American milk in China, as oo* of the consuls suggests. Arab music has been described u the singing of a prima donna who has ruptured her voice in trying to sing a duet with herself. Bach note starts from somewhere between a sharp and a flat, but do*s not stop even there, and splits up into four or more portions, of which no person can be expected to catch mow than one at a time.