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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 200, 13 August 1908, Page 3

Sound trawls at tlio rate of 1,142 ft. per .second, A whale's) greatest speed is from ten to twelve miles per hour. Living is forty per cent, cheaper in London than in New York. Five hundred fires are caused annually in London by lamp accidents. Electricity has only been in use as a motive-power for about. twenty-five years. About twice as much po\v<T is required to stop iUi express train as is necessary to start one. Oysters can only live.in water which contains thirty-seven -parts of salt to every 1,000 parts of water. Tn Norway there is a law forbidding anyone to cut down a tree unless ho plants three saplings in. its place. Every German soldier must learn tj swim, some of them being able to cross' a wide stream, carrying all their clothes, arms, and ammunition.

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