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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 234, 26 September 1908, Page 4

While in 1800 there were eighteen species ol humming-bird in Trinidad, there are now only about live. A lioinan camp, a Saxon temple, ami three cathedrals have ill turn occupied the site of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. A vouth was discovered in Tans w:io had J.ccn deliberately starving himself for forty days owing to an unfortunate love alVair, " In Siberia travellers often carry soups in sacks, Tin- soups aiv. frozen solid, and keep for an indefinite time. Milk also is frozen and sold .by the pound. A denlist's parlour has iieen installed on the 'ltalian liner Principe di Udiii". Others than ancient mariners will mieline to thmk that seafaring is getting too civilised. On being asked whether he thought ■„ 1,,,,,,.,- to .Ik- a boy or a girl, a pnn, in a Sludlichl Council School wrote Unit it was better to ihe a boy, as one could then grow imo a King- ~ , . When a ladv recently applied for a separation in the New York Courts, ner husband's counsel .produced a drap-i's l,i,| 1: > ~.,). long, which ho said was only one of the many sent to the lady s husband. . ~ , \ ih-whclor ami spinster in the liedworth' district of Warwickshire (ling.) have been engaged for more than fon.y vears. mid evei"now there is no imli-a-iion tli.t the marriage will take place .at an ourlv date. I \ Xnrlhamplonshire schoolmaster v»ecntlv received the following note iroin . a pupil's mother:—" Honoured sir.I.lohnnv can't come to school to-day. I Yosler.lav another hoy threw a stone I into his'eve, and he ean'l see out of 1 it Will vou see into it!" 1 Between 1)0.001) and 40.000 tortoises •' are imported into Great Britain annually.