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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 222, 12 September 1908, Page 4

The. loneliest people in Kuropo live ill the extreme nui'lh of Sweden, 10(1 miles from a railway and a day's journey from their nearest neighbour. j The sea-parrot is a si range-looking lisli. almost egg-shaped, with spines all over its tough skin, a little beak like that of a parrakect, and brilliant colour- '" The porters of Constant iuople are said to be the strongest men in the world, and after them the Chilian miners ami the bearers of Northern China. The aslies of the meteorites eaugbl and burnt, up in our atmosphere add. it i„ eslimateil. 1.1)1)11 lons weight tu the fjirth i-vory (linn' year*. Holland'has 10.200 windmills, which exercise all aggregate power equal to that of ,")2.200 horses. The area drained by each mill is. on an average. :110 acres. Manhole Tacoli. a lieutenant in Ihe Austrian anny. declined ;i challenge, stating that duelling was contrary to his religious scruples. He was degraded from his lank, and was ordered to serve bis time as a private.