MANY MATTERS MINCED UP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 4

MANY MATTERS MINCED UP.

Alcohol as such hat never yet been found as a natural original product. It it always formed by art. The first city incorporated in this country with a charter and. privilege* was New York, which wai granted its papers in 1664, The Mackenzie, the principal'river of ■the dominion, is 2,600 miles in length and drains an area equal to one-half of the United States.

The country roads of the United States do not compare favorably with those of ariy nation in Europe, During the spring season in many districts of the western states the roads are practically impassable.

A Quebec paper flgtupaa out that in the United States and Canada there is -pent yearly the enormous sum of v i 5,000,000 on golf. This includes the coat of clubhouses and links;; their maintenance, the wages of caddies end servants, the cost of golfing suits, sticks a nd ball* and all other expense*.

Most persons are 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 s man who comroll!. :! suicide. It is the picture of Meriwether Lewis, a famous explorer and once private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, who afterword made him governor of Missouri territory. In a fit of deep despondency he killed himself when 35 years old.