MANY MATTERS MINCED UP.

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

MANY MATTERS MINCED UP.

' Alcohol as such has never yet been found as a natural original product. It is always formed by art. The first city incorporated in this country with a charter and privileges was New York, which was granted its papers in 1664. The Mackenzie, the principal river of the dominion, is 2,500 miles in length and drains an area equal to one-half 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 district* of the western states the roads are practically lll'l : T.HP’f'i: . A Ciuebi v ii..pv‘ ii out that in the Ui ;l. Sw.!' -. ; r.da there is f.pe/jt, tu-i > i In 1 <, i.m :i m of $15,000 bbo on go’', ■tin the cost oi Uot.hoii.. and i.i.t.i, their maintenance, the wages of caddies and servants, the cost of golfing suit*, •ticks and balls and all other expense*. Most persons arc unaware that the portrait on the new ten-dollar bill, known as the “buffalo bill” because of the rampant figure of a bison in the center of it, is that of a man who committed suicide. It is the picture of Meriwether Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, who afterward made him governor of Missouri territory. In a fit of deep despondency he killed himself when 35 yearsold.