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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 December 1907, Page 3

MEWS IN BRIEF. The descendants of Coufuacius han inhabited the same spot where tin ' sage was born, the family continuing i in unbroken Jim- for 2.">00 years. j Madame (,'alve, tln- great singer, hail model farm in the Department of Aveyron, Kraii;! 1 , According to lite Ma'. ..;>d.;ns of Southern India, pulverised diamond is the least painful, the most active, and the most certain of all poison*. The British professional classes are the tallest adult males in the world. The average is oft !)%i 11. Richard Bell. M.P., represents in Parliament over half a million railway servants. King Oscar of Sweden is the only reigning sovereign who does not smoke Will 'Crooks.' M.P.. nf one time attended a poor-law school. At Ihe busiest season Blackpool in often invaded by 210.(100 Lancashire workers in the course of a single day. Harbour works have lieen decided on at llotierdam which will give the por! ihe largcKt harbour basin in the world. Mr. -lames Pollitt. a chorister at N'cwt'in Heath, has been singins in church -ince he \va« eight years old. He is now '■ : "M v-one. P.agnincs have been u=cd for the (tiwl tin"- at Home by (be Salvation Army A band of pipers is to be introduced In Loudon. "Modern needles first eamo into tise in 1515.