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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 23 November 1907, Page 4

Nearly eTery Japanese follows the profession of Ins father. Over one-eighth of the vapor in the atmosphere is within GOOOft of the surface of tile earth. I A caterpillar is so greedy that in one month it usually devours 8000 times its own weight in food. The average duration of the reign of English monarch: for the la*t six centuries has lx>en twenty-one years. j Roasted coffee and ground cofTcc beans mixed with honey are used to restore broken down horses in Germany. A piece of leather, with tiie assistance of the latest machine;, can be transformed into a pair of lmots in thirty-four minutes. A (ouri-t agent put the number of Ami-rican vi-itor- to Knrope this vear .it inn.mio. and he c-timates that tlicv -p>-nt CH.fHKMwn. The rapid progress made by Japan in engineering is illustrated by'the const met ion of the cable ship Ogasawara Mam, recently completed at Nagasaki dockyard from the plans of Professors Sbiba and Sayehlro,