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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2106, 23 March 1920, Page 1

The Zulus are great singers, and everything which takes place is the subject and occasion of a song. Their songs are characteristic of the tribe, and songs which are kept in the family, being handed down from father to son. Human eyelashes are said to exist on the marble statue, the Sleeping Ariadne, one of the gems of the Vatican, which was found in 1503. It is the only statue of the human figure with eyelashes known. Of the (1,106,000 men who in the great war fought for Great Britain, from the homelands, colonies, and India, 249,387 were decorated. In 1850 America produced no more than half a million pounds of candy, as against a present production estimated from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds a year.

A striking description is given in the Paris Journal of the execution of live notorious Hungarian Soviet leaders in Buda Peslh. Five gibbets wore erected side by side in the courtyard of the military prison. One of the Bolshevists named Kuvcr at the last moment expressed a wish to marry a girl with whom be was in love. A priest and a registrar were fetched hurriedly. The condemned men had *to walk 100 puces from the (-ells to the ladder .which led to ihe scattold, and all, witli the exception of one named Neumayer, who had to be carried by the executioner’s assistants, met death bravely. One attempted a short speech, saying that he died for his ideas, but he was not allowed to go on. Tcherny, chief of the band known as “Lenin’s Boys,” mounted the scaffold with a cigarette in his mouth. Authorities have never been in a hurry over issuing medals; there are two instances on record when those entitled to rervards have been called upon to wait 50 years for their decorations. For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.