NEWS IN BRIEF.
Drinking glasses called tumblers derive their peculiar name from the fact that they are the successors of little round silver howls, so perfectly balanced that, whichever way they were lipped about on the table, they tumbled iuto position again, and there remained with the rim it} >wards. lire potato had its original home in South America. There Pizarro, the famous expdorer, found it cultivated by the Indians, and it was he who introduced it into (Spain in 15(15. Twenty-live years later Sir Walter Raleigh lirst planted the potato in North America, in the colony of Virginia.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1903, 16 November 1918, Page 4
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99NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1903, 16 November 1918, Page 4
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