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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 293, 5 December 1908, Page 3

Swedish schoolchildren plant every! vear about (iOO.linn trees. liirthdays were celebrate.', as far back rts the time of Pharaoh. Tn Hungry you can travel by rail tit (lie rale of six miles for a penny. The total strength of the railways of the world is stated to be 4J4.11(>0 miles. The Emperor of Japan retains the services of th-irtv physicians and sixty priests. Belgium girls are taught to do housework and 'marketing Ms part of their school lessons.

- Powdered codfish is sometimes used in Iceland to make bread, in place of (lour. I'eiuains of irrigation systems 4.0W years old have heeii excavated in South Africa. X'oarlv all savage races have sound teeth. 'Decayed teeth are mi evidence of civilisation.

A tlreok prisoner who is sentenced tc death has to await two years before Hie sentence is carried out. Some- of the Chinese think thai, women who wear short hair will be transformed into men in the future i -s-orld, , , The Rusian Empire hold the record lof having under Us sway sixty-five Separate ami distinct racial -roups. In Holland it is illegal for a cyclist to a horn, a* this instrument is resewed (or the exclusive use of motor-

ists. T|„. people of the I'nited States read and support as ina-.iy newspapers as England, France, and (iermnny combined. , The Hoods of the Xilc are so regular ill their coming that for hundreds of years they have not varied ten days in (lie date of their arrival.