It is not so much the salt in sea-waj.er that is valuable to bathers as the iodine and bromine. The number of deaths that occur on the clolie amsnnt to (17 a minute, anil the births to about till or 7(1 a minute The skeleton of an average-sized mall weighs about 21)11).; that of a woman of average size about (ill), less. China "and .lapan produce Ipio to* of silk annually: but about (10 pei i< nr. of this is retained for home inc. England has 144 churches tor cvei> St, 1- '"similar "'^;:,;:rt-e f that,nove.a»,,- ■ XT^^'A^^^ The most eostlv war in the world wis (be American Civil War. It cost th, North 1.200 and the South SUP mil ions. The blood thrown out by the beau travel- seven miles in an hour, or 4.2.'-.-„n„ miles in a lifetime of seventy years. The so-called "Debatable Umil «/; that part of Britain between (he hand the Sark. It. was planned by l""" Kmrlaud and Scotland. \ curious custom prevail- in *''" '■ If a man meets his .wife in the -treer. he ignores her I .resence, and pa-es lid if she were a stranger. Feuding about 8(1,000 small vessels the commerce of the world is earned on liv -10.100 vessels, of a total tonnage „f about twenty-five millions. . \C red carriages were first used in England in 1580.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 216, 5 September 1908, Page 4
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223Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 216, 5 September 1908, Page 4
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