NEWS IN BRIEF.
India has 3,000 Post Offices, and 2.0U0 letter boxes. There ai c said to be 40,000 commercial travellers m the United States. When Queen Elizaberh died, three thousand gowns were found m. her wardrobe. The building of St. Paul's, London, occupied thirty-seven years. Forty years ago steel pens were sold afc 5s 6d per gross ; vow they can be'obtained at l£d. The ladies are all opposed to the telephone. They don't care to have a young fellow whispering m their ears with his mouth twenty miles away. In Providence, Rhode Island, 220 lamps are lit and extinguished m less than fifteen seconds, by. an electrical system controlled by one inaiu Statues are so rare m Russia, that those which -have been erected puzzle the country folkj who' think thorn idols. The "WairoaFrce Press" had to suspend its publication on last Saturday, owing to wounds received by i's compositor on the field of— criekefc.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 47, 23 March 1878, Page 3
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