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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 3 May 1907, Page 4

l'atea Comil.v Council have voted i'.Vi towards the cost of erecting an asm tural laboratory at l'atea. "It will ho generations before farmei. can be maile to come to meetings aiH discu»s matters," said a leading manager (if a northern branch of the Farmer's union. Whisky was sidling at Ms to 20s a bottle on the Main Trunk line during a recent .sports nn-nii-^ Holland ha- 10,]tii windmills. each draining, m iUI iUlmia i c „,|. ~j- ls an acre, 310 acres of ground. It's almost as easy to achieve fooli.-n----ness as it is to be born foolish.Women as a rule outlive men. The ladies of Algeria tattoo a small Jilue cross m the. middle oi the forehead. Light per cent, more widowers tlmn widows remarry. The Australian drinks 81b of tea a year, the American only lib. Hie publication of ijunday papers !m-> now ceased ill Toronto and Monti-enl. Ail Annan minister created a sen-a tion by praying f or - a il editors and journalists.'in™'.' 'V 1 B ,l ' S( '. v clergyman celebrated his 100!, I birthday the other day. lie was ordained lo the ministry soventv years ago. ' * * An American profe-sor says that we can depend on tile sun for another 30 - 000,000 years. It will then be fhowin" signs of decay. ' A woman in a London (Jourl. accused of lieing drunk aml osl ,]. u - m .;| that she was "subject to electric Ills.'' fx'igh s (salvation Army breakfasts are not so popular since tea, bread, and je , <!loppoil out of the menu in favour of porridge and nJlk. A New V irk woman is suing fur a divorce because lu T iiu.,i>aml pcr.-ists in keeping a colliu in his dining room in view ol his pos.-i'lde ocniise. liaising a libel action is like faking a tlip at the tail of a kite. Von know where you started, but you don't know where you may come down. It is now decreed that whisky sold at future Highland agricultural shows shall be old and strong. ■V women's suffrage play has been writ ten, and is.to be staged in one of the London theatres.

"i.ndies moving in good »oeiet,v" arc now ofl'erwl comniMiioii on insurnm business inirovlueecl l.j' Ilium, llij' number of divorces to marriages in .Japan is as one to three. in Croat IJritain the yearly io--s of wages through id-health is ;Ci 1,000,000. The growth of nails on tile left luiml requires eight or ten da.v» longer than those on ill" right. About iiO.ooo po-tage stamps are found loose in the pillar-boxea of the I nited Kingdom every year, I lie longest record Lair growing on a female hoad was Bft. The longest l)i?a rd ever Worn by a man was 12ft. Russian railways are the most dangerous in the world. Thirty in every million passengers are either killed or hurt. Titty years ago Kngland • imported three eggs a head for its population. Last voar it imported forty for each inhabitant. The phonograph was invented by Edison in 1877, and two years later be produced the ineandescmt electric light. ''Ancient" coins, many of which antedate the Christian era. are made in large quantities in London, nnd fifriri! <ale all over the world. Tt is said that land cultivated by irrigation is more productive than' the land where rainfall moisture ia sufficient to mature the crop?,