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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3608, 9 December 1905, Page 4

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Fifteen hundred pounds hast .been given by Sir John Long “to p:wmote the teaching of the songs of Scotla-nd among the school children of Durdee. Typhoid fever in South Africa, has been spread largely by means *vhich sanitation could not oope with, the germs being - conveyed, into food and water by Hies, r.iuS by the dust* hich pervades everything. The Formosa® g> id mines are - Situated in the neighborhood of Kjeltmg. The output of gold in 1998 was about 112 pounds; in 1899, 343 pounds and for, the first six mouths of 1900, 305 pounds. The gold is aH sent to Japan, Eighteen peasants of the district of Tfcherdinsk bearing the family name of Dyavol (devil) have svwt a petition to the czar asking for permission to change the name to BugoUnbow ((Bod be oved). This request ,wab grantted them.

The Eussian empire contains m ore than 65 independent radical groups,, It is a veritable tower of Babel. FAen with the omission of Bib ria and central Asia, there remains in E.mwa,, in Europe and the Caucasus alone,. ,46-dif-ferent peoples. Poland has a wealth of animal sflf *erslitions. The goat is there considct ved the best harbinger of luck, while t he ■wolf, crow and pigeon are looked up on ns unlucky. The akin of a cat worn ion the chest is alleged to cure consume ption. To cure cataract in the eye, tal e a black cock, make him look at the sui>> look at it yourself, then thnow tlu’ cock on the ground, jump on a fence and crow three times.”