GERMAN INTERESTS.
German companies now have fllx steamers plying regularly on the river Yangtse between Shanghai and Hankow.
The German peasantry have a curious instrument called the nagelgeige or nail violin. It is a circular frame of wood in which are set 60 or 70 iron pins, played with a bow. The custom of writing foolish begging letters to the emperor ha# become so prevalent in German school* that a warning has been sent out that it must stop or fines will be inflicted.
The authorities of Aix-la-Chapoll# recently sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment a man who carelessly threw away a lighted match in a forest near that city, although no damage was caused by the act. It is the practice in Berlin when any poor person dies and leaves no heir to have the bed disinfected and stamped by the official stamp of the town council. In this way a large number of bed# are collected, and are then lent to tie very poo#.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3608, 9 December 1905, Page 4
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165GERMAN INTERESTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3608, 9 December 1905, Page 4
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