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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 17 August 1907, Page 4

Two rings an: employed in the marriage ceremony of the lireek Church one of gold and the other of silver. liigamists in Hungary are compelled to submit to an odd punishment., ihe man who has been silly enough to t:i.:rry two wives is legally l'orced to live with both ut' them in the same house. llclouaii, in Egypt, is said to be the oldest health resort in the world. King James 1., mounting a horse that was unruly, said: "The de'il tak* my sanl, sirrah, an' ye be na quiet, I'll send ye to the live hundred kings in the o' ComomnS. They'll soon tame you.'* I'ur private engagements., M. Paderewski receives fees varying from 200ga lo fjilOgs. That grand old crimson rose, General Jaeoucininot is still a very popular variety in America. One nurseryman alone, at Richmond, Indiuia, ocers 40,000 plants at U0 ]>er ihousand. Vi'auee has a 10 per cent tax on theatre tickets, of which the proceeds go to relieve Hie poor. Of the 1203 bishops iu the Roman Catholic Church, 130 hold sees i» the Ikilish Kmpirc. Tfie vine will not grow at an altitude oi mure than iJJHIOi't above the sea. 'lhe oak is not found at 3350. and the fir at I TOOOl't. |

ttmls two thousand years old have been known to sprout. Washington, -the capital of the United Spates, has the widest streets in the world. Tin' largest sum left fur charitable purposes las! year is the late Mr Alfred Itril/K CI.SOItjoOO. | Agrieultutt! grvs employment to l/.Knh.i'H:) iitii France, or ono-fifth jof iiic populafinn. j \o:irly seventy trains are now running [Oll iSi-itUh railways at booked speeds of fifty-six wiles au hour or more,