BITS BY THE WAY.
Hippopotami are polygamous, and se : ze their mates by force. Colour blindness is more than twice as common in men as in women. Xapoleon called Constantinople " the Key of the Work.'." Dartmoor convict prison was originally built to receive prisoners of war during our struggles with Xapoleon. The iridescent fire in the opal is cue to the water in the gam, opals being simply a mingling of silica (flint) and water. Shrapnel, so called after their inventor, the British General Shrapnel, are thin cases of tough steel containing a lnrtre number of bullets—in the British artillery 203, and in the French and German 300.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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108BITS BY THE WAY. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 161, 31 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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