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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 115, 31 May 1901, Page 4

INTERESTING GLEANINGS. t ! Men Capable of Bearing Arms.—Thi number of men capable of bearing arms ii calculated at one-fourth of the population Great Cafe of Venice.—The great cafi of Venice—Floriana's, on the piazza of St Mark—has never been closed, ni£nt or day, for one hundred and fifty years. Blind Readers.—lt is said that no fewer than 200,000 books for the blind are borrowed annually from the free-lending libraries Id different parts of the old country. Appearance of a Man's Height.—lt is found by calculation tt* it at 328 yards a man has the appearance of one-third his height, at 437 yards, one-fourth; and at 546, one-fifth. /4,000 for a Lady's Tooth.-—M. A. Lenoir, the founder of the French Museum, relates that during the transport of the remains of Abelard and Heloise to the Petits Aujustins, an Englishman offered him too.ooofr. for one of the teeth of Heloise. Wooden Skewers.—The only manufactory of wooden skewers in the world, it is supposed, exists at Toledo, Ohio, whence ,iillions of them are shipped to England. !iey are made by machinery from hickory 'ocks. Between eighty and ninety thousand turned out every day. Thimbles.—Thimbles lined with indiaibber are now employed, and;ue said not 0 fail off so easily as ihe ordinary unlined liimble. They are also warmer to the skin, ■.iid free from the metallic " rust" which 1 .metimes takes the form of verdigris, a subUanceof a poisonous nature. A Quaint Law. —In 1541 the Corporation if Chester ordered, under the penalty of 0 tine of 3s. 4d., that no unmarried woman -:hould wear white or coloured caps, arid that none but sick or aged women should wear a hat unless riding or going abroad into tlu

For the Aged Health for All: Young and Oil We are glad that our blood-purifying and blood-forming remedy is good for all ages. It brings health to pale and feeble children and it relieves the debility and weakness that naturally oome to old age. Mr. Levi Sargeant, of Grenfell, New South Wales, sends us this letter, with his- photograph: I " I have been a terrible sufferer from rhenmatism and sciatica. I have spexit % great deal of money in trying to get rid of tho pain, but without avail, and I have been couflnod to the bed for months at a time. I then tried Sarsapari and began to improve at once. After taking only six bottles 1 felt quite well, and now ant able to go alxiut my work again. I might &ud I am seventy-live years of age." You cannot enjoy good health nnlcs3 you have a daily movement of the bowels. Avar's Pills cure constipation. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass., U. S. A.

H. RETFORD, DEVON STREET, PIANOS & ORGANS, AT LOWEST PHICES. Sole Agent In New Plymouth for the celebrated Wertheim Sewing = Machines, Which, from their merit alone,have gained for them-, selves a world-wide reputation, and are now universally recognised as the nost reliable machines in the market Sole Agent for tba world-famed "TTTHKIILEB k WILSON W Machines., lasy Time-payments, liberal Dlscoot for Cash. C.H. RETFORD. Central Depot.

The City Tailor. DEVON-STREET. NEW PLYMOUTH, HAVING secured the assist \ anca oC First-Class Tailors from Wellington, I am now prepared lo exeoute orders at SHORTEST NOTICE. Customers patronising my establishment can rely on FIRST-CLASS TAILORING IN FASHION. FIT, & WORKMANSHIP All Garments GUARANTEED not toShrink. NO Boy or Girl Labour employed. No Old Stock. Good selection of modern TWEEDS jiN FASHIONABLE SHADES, Charges Moderate. | F.W.Jensen, Ladies' & Gentlemen's Tailor. THE CITY TAILOR, f.WO DOORS ABOVE THEATRE ROYAL