OF PASSING INTEREST.
The world produces a million pounds of silk a week. Oxford university has voted to do away with the Sunday afternoon sermons. The railway companies of Great ■ Dritaiu pay on an average £1,300 a day in compensation for damage. I In size, not counting colonies, the i European powers stand in this order: I.’ussia, Austria, Germany, ; France. United Kingdom., Italy. Several pairs of pigeons which a scientist lias observed in Paris have raised their young in nests made entirely of hairpins collected on the paths of the Luxembourg. I Fort Worth papers are authority for the statement that a conductor of the Chicago, Keck Island & Texas railroad, during the recent rush to jEI Reno, to re;^>: er for government hoincslLiui.s, collected, on one run, 241 tickets on the tops of the
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 13 January 1906, Page 4
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134OF PASSING INTEREST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3619, 13 January 1906, Page 4
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