MANY MATTERS MINCED OF.

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

MANY MATTERS MINCED OF.

Alcohol as such boa never jet bean found as a natural original product, It is always formed by art. The first city incorporated in this country with a charter and privilege* was New York, which wa* granted its papers in 1664. The Mackenzie, the principal river of the dominion, is 2,500 miles in length and drains on area equal to one-hall of the United State#. The country roads of the United States do not compare favorably with those of any nation in Europe. During the spring season in many districts of the western states the roads are practically impassable. A (jiubtc paper figures out that in tlu Ui.ittd States and Canada there is yearly the enormou.' sum of Sis.ooo,ooo on golf. This includes the cost of clubhouses and links, their maintenance, the wages of caddies and servants, the cost of golfing suits, sticks and ball* and all other expenses.

Most persons are unaware that the portrait on the new ten-do Her bill, known as the “buffalo bill" because of the rampant figure of a bison in the center of it, i» that of a man who committed suicide. It is the picture of Meriwether Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to Preaiden t Thomas Jefferson, who afterward made him governor of Missouri territory. In a fit of deep despondency h* killed himself when 35 years old.