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Ducats were Duke’s money. There are forty-eight eye diseases. Cologne has a 200-year-old rose tree. About 100,000 volcanic mountains have been seen on the moon through the telescope. The average duration of ilife in India is twenty-four years. In England it is forty-four years. Taking it year in and year out the coldest hour of each twenty-four is 5 o’clock in the morning. The huge guns of modern navies can be tired only about seventy-five times before they are worn out. To be perfectly proportioned a man should weigh twenty-eight pounds for every foot of his height. There is a well at Scarpa, a village near Tivoli, Italy, which is 1,700 feet deep, all but 26 feet being cut in solid rock.
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Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 12, 23 June 1894, Page 7
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125BITS OF INFORMATION. Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 12, 23 June 1894, Page 7
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