FRESH FROM FRANCE.
In 1909 the Eiffel tower becomes the property of the city of Paris and will then be itsed«for its weather bureau. An employs in a French-tobacco factory has invented a machine which makes the head on cigars after they are rolled and does the work df about a dozen hand*.
Generally speaking, Frenchmen are not chewers of the Indian weed; bntin the manufacturing districts, where men work 12 hours a day and cannot smoke 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 sickly to a tree hospital, where they are restored to vigor and then set out anew.
Parisian thieves have discovered a new method, which has taken the form of abstracting the platinum tubes from the Interior of motorcars. Hundreds of thefts of this kind hove been committed during the past few weeks.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 4
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154FRESH FROM FRANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 4
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