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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 October 1907, Page 3

A Massechasetts boy, Nathan Campern, has found a venerable turtle which bears markings made by bis grandfather, now eighty-one years old, which were pot on in 1840, and by his great-grand-father, who marked the same turtle in 1816. On recovering from a severe illness, Mr Garland Bates, who has been town ener of A [aeon, Missouri, for the last quarter of * century, was handed a loea'. paper containing the news ol his death ami an elaborate sketch of hi* life. He ru ao pleased with hi? obituary that he got ont of bed to call on ile editor of the paper, and caught a chill from which he died the sau.e day. A herring lives the shortest time of •By figh when taken out of t!>•• water: cary and eels the greate-t length cf time. Hailstones are in reality drop- of ruin which get frozen into ice by rn-in- a coid current of air on their way t<iwar.N the earth. Nearly 8000 school garden* exist in Austria, not including the sister kingdom of Hungary. They are connected Trith both private and public schools, and are used for purposes of practical instruction in horticulture and treegrowing, and often contain butaaical PWVM Ud be*hivei.