GERMAN INTERESTS.
Qeman companies now have Six gleaners plying regularly on the liver Yangtse between Shanghai and Hankow. The German peasantry have a curious instrument called the nagelfelge or nail violin. It is a circular frame of wood in which are set 60 br TO iron pins, played with a bow. The custom of writing foolish begging letters to the emperor has be•omt so prevalent in German schools that a warning has been sent out that It must atop or finea will be inflicted. The authorities of Aix-la-Chapells fwently sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment a man who carelessly threw away a lighted match in a forget near that city, although no damftge was caused by the act. It is the practice in Berlin when any poor person dies ami 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 beds are collected, and are then lent to the jrarf poor.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 28 December 1905, Page 3
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165GERMAN INTERESTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3613, 28 December 1905, Page 3
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