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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3582, 7 October 1905, Page 4

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A German tourist in. Cowe WritM that the usual trill of faro consist# of dog meat, rice and beans, A Turk holds that the day begins exactly at snnset. At that time he acts hia clocks and watches »t the hour of 12. Vladivostock, which' 40 years ago consisted of four Chinese fishermen’s huts, is now a flourishing city of 50,000 souls, and Khabarovsk and Blagovestchensk are not far behind in wealth and population. Corea is believed to be rich in gold, ■but it all belongs to the king, who gets 25 per cent, of the gross earnings, and’ v/hou! consent for mining under takings; is; hard to get. Nevertheless; about $3,500,000 of the metal was scoured last year. Tho Chi c ose have the idea that milk revives j.tie, youthful power!, and that it luik s,peci;a virtue, as a winter food for old people. .Pictures and charactent illustrating i his Idea, as well as the vain-, of it for baby food, would without doubt increase the sale of ’American. roiljc in China, as one of the co.'icuh .-uiggcsts. Arab music has been described as the singing of a prima donna who has ruptured her voice in trying to sing a duet with herself. Each note starts from somewhere between a sharp and a flat, but does not stop even there, and splits up into four or more portions, of which no person can be expected to catoh more than one at a time.