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Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 3

Lady jockeys form the latest innovation in the. Slates. An exciting race against time, for a purse of 2,800 dollars, recently took place at Minneopolis, between a Miss Jewett, of that place, and Miss Cook, of California. The latter rode 8 miles (changing horses every mile) in 20 minutes, and won the dollars ; her rival being thrown in the race and badly hurt. Ti-mrir.—A curious and astounding calculation has been made by an American physician. Dr Farrali. lie estimates that not less than half a ton of pure gold, worth half a million of dollars, is annually packed into people’s teeth in the United States. At this rate, all the gold in circulation will bo buried in the earth in three hundred years. He also calculates three million of artificial teeth are annually supplied, and that only one person in eight has sound teeth. The diggings of the future will probably be the cemeteries of to-day. Chinese on the Pacific Slope arc refused letters of naturalisation. A stag is often obliged t run for deer life.