ODDS AND ENDS.
For every 110 civilians, 380 soldier! commit suicide in Great Britain. A record pine leg, 91 feet long, IS inches square and perfectly straight, was recently landed at Leith. Italy 'and Spain and have fewer houses in proportion to population than nnv e-’ier eonniry. The Argen- ; ■ ' • •'incmr-; ry i: ine, ;i luo been i n*. TO per cent. Britain digs canals more cheaply f’-nn other conn!vies. The average of English canals being £9,000 a mile, aira'iis! 0 Hi.o'iO in France and £15..100 in Canada. l*o!;.; ies have era sed to be the principal root crop of Ireland, if they are to be eompa :- ed with turnips by weight or yield— last year, for example, only about 1,M2,000 tons, against 4,420,000 lons of turnips. The tvisits of Congo elephants are asjj rule very large and weigh on an avernire 0o ■v-unds. Some of them are of ex! raenlivary sire. At the Brussels exhibition a pair of tusks were on show each of which weighed 156 pounds At the Moon sale of coins in London a silver Oxford crown of King Charles T. brought 8745; an Oliver Cromwell pattern gold 50-shi!!ing piece, $700; a “petition” crown of Charles I. in silver, $1,575; a pattern crown in gold of George 111., 1817, $720, and a double sovereign of Edward VI., $1,275.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3577, 26 September 1905, Page 4
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221ODDS AND ENDS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3577, 26 September 1905, Page 4
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