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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 255, 30 October 1901, Page 4

Utilising the Water Lilv.—The watei 7is said to be largely used in some parts of India as a food stuff. The fruit of one jjpecies that grows plentifully in the lakes oi Cashmere is rich in starch, and has much jfe flavour of a chestnut. If the nuts are 'dried, they will keep for a long time, and, hffhen ground, may be made into cakes or or they may be soaked for some / Boars "and then boiled. The seeds of the plot us are also much used for dietary puroses in India. i Foxes Norsed bv a Cat.—A singular; ffacident occurred at Scarclille, Notts. A i ilnan was ploughing in a field, when a fox CBtarted op and bolted away. Reynard had '-.come out of a fox earth, which contained 'five young foxes recently born. Every j encouragement was given to the old vixen tc prelum, bat as she did not, and as the young ' vfoxes were nearly dead and cold, the man .took the cnbs to a cat which had had flattens a few days before. The yonng foxes . 'jWere put with the cat, and she has attended 'fta them in a most maternal manner. ? Condensed Breath on 'Window Panes. j&—lf the condensed breath collected on the t coot window panes of a room where a number of persons l have been assembled be > -Imrned, a smell as of singed hair will show it the presence of organic matter; and if the i condensed breath be allowed to remain on windows for a few days, it will be found, gfon examination by a microscope, that it is k.alne with animalculae. The inhalation of [tt&r containing such putrescent matter causes ' untold complaints which might be avoided ;> by a circulation of fresh air J. • . £i • Death of the Queerest of Cats. —It, -Jl remarkable cat, died at Putnam, Consinectknt, the other day. The animal had and two tails, being in reality one t* cat in .front and two cats behind. Her : enabled her to do many P tricks; she was able to walk at any ana'.' _ without taming, and whenever perpendicula: Awaits were near enough together she coulti ' go op them as easily as she could walk on '(he floor, while it was her favourite sport to .'climb a tin pipe to the roof of the house. She Vas. buried ia a triangular black walnut fcnx, with the simple inscription, " It," and -WBy of the villagers attended the burial, t A Hanging Country.—Great Britain is, .above all others, a banging conntrv. This . shown by some opportune leaflets con- I 'toning official statistics and reports circu4.'bled by the Howard Association. From ■-these papers it is ascertained that during decade 1879-1888 inclusive, 145 of 290 persons condemned to death were hanged, the number including nine women. In Italy no executions have talien place since 1876; pi }n Belgium none since 1863 ;in Holland none £;'*ince 360; in Portugal none since 1843. In [} -Germany and Austria capital punishment is *?" (tiO in force, but it is resorted to with the ¥ jtfaost reluctance. France might also be - placed in the same catego'f, _ for of 683 persons arraigned for capital crimes in 1887 X (the last return available), only a 8 wen: '"•condemned to death, and of tfcse only six •ere executed. . lAHUROA TOWNSHIP. PUBLIC NOTICE. TN reference to the Aburoa Township which we are now placing on the pC we wish to draw attention to the advantages of this property. To acquire freehold In the centre of a fbxboar ia touch with all Foreign Porta of the world, is a rare chance indeed. How many of us have let the chance slip to aoquire freehold situated in a similar ~rfHnn for very little money, which, on looking hack, would now take a good many thousands to secure. Look what Taranaki is exporting at pyamt What will the multiple be in • few years 1 ftlthnngh this is not ordinary property, we open the sections to the public at the ' tow upset ol from £SO and upwards, on terns which will enable anyone to seenre a ' WopertJ that it will be very hard to estiCALLAGEAN & CO., Sole Agents. I A. MAISEY, ARCHITECT. lAßti-B Experience in Birmingham (EngI land), Bydney. and Auckland. ' Drawings, Specifications, etc., prepared in style for any description of buildings. Office: DHYON-STBSKT, Educational Buildings. Ft-'. ! I & I I I Every Hospital in England that uses Bovril (and there are over 500 that do so) gives practical, unassailable testimony to the pre-eminence of Bovril as a strengthening, noarishing, sustaining food. This testimony embodies the experience of those best able to jndge of the real valne of Bovril, of its absolute parity, of its splendid results. And Doctors, Norses, ana Patients join to swell the universal chorusThere is only one m HAMS AND BACON. mHS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY have I just received a CHOICE LOT ol Andrews and Turnbull's First Piize Dairyfed HAMS and BACON. As there is onlj m limited supply, order at once, fa. CO-OPERATIVE STORES. WRIGHT & HUTGHEN v AMD BOLIOITOIB • BWVMAM-aiUOH Siw PLYMOUTH, * A Mhtf *f tkTjim wtil hapt Mmj fcfrv amy sale 4ay. Ntami - ... Tnmhkj (taa»JDui.tillSMt.) JOHN MYNOTT, LAND AND OOMJHBBION AGENT. ICTXW-OOHERS will find it to their ad J3i vantage to call upon the above before In resting. labour Bureau and Registry Office foi Servant)!. Advice gratis. Address, Ourrie-streel n2' JAMBS SANDERSON, ARCHITECT, omaa Koto's Bvudinob c of Devon and Brougham Streets.