FRESH FROM FRANCS.
' In 1909 the Eiffel tower becomes the property of the city of Pari* and will theta be used for its weather bureau. An employe in a French tobacco factory has invented a machine which makes the head on cigars after they are rolled and does the work of about « dozen hands. , Generally speaking, Frenchmen tire aoichewersof the Indian weed; but in the manufacturing districts where men work 12 hours a day and cannot amok a during that time, they chew. Paris has a municipal department that not only moves large trees from place to place, but takes such as are •ickly to a tree hospital, where they are restored to vigor l and then set out anew. Parisian thieves hare discovered a new method, which has taken the form of abstracting the platinum tubes from the interior of motor cars. Hundreds t>f thefts of this kind have been com* mitted during the past few weeks.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3582, 7 October 1905, Page 4
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158FRESH FROM FRANCS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3582, 7 October 1905, Page 4
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