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Patea Mail, 2 December 1880, Page 3

Tiio average woman’s waist measures 80 inches—the average length of a man's arm Is 50 inches. How admirable arc thy works, oh nature !

How America is beating Australia. This year -100,000 immigrants will be landed in the States, moat of them English, Irish, German, and Scandinavian, in the prime of life.

A speculator says to his fond wife : “Good bye, sweet love, till dinner time If stocks go up yon shall have that coronet of diamonds.”—“ But if they go down ?” —“ Then we will borrow a dollar of your brother.”

Proctor says the ocean contains about 2,500,000 tons of water. This tallies with our figures the last time we weighed it, but there have been several heavy rains since.—American paper. The Taranaki Hews says—“ It will be satisfactory to our readers to learn that the late sale of lands on the Waimatu Plains have yielded the magnificent sum of £BOOO to the New Plymouth Harbor Board, and the coming sale will in all probability yield an equal sum.” A curious discovery was made the other day in going over the effects of (he lato Sir Robert Burdett, brother of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In various parts of the house were found over £270,000 worth of bank notes. Most of the money was found pinned between the leaves of books and slipped in among bundles of old papers. At the wedding of Edith Pender, the registrar, being under the impression that she had been married before, asked her if it were not so. Surprised at receiving the answer “ 'N'o, ” be exclamed, “"What, never?” .Well, said the bride, “hardly ever.”