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

The highest trees have the most pointed leaves. IJueeii Alexandra Is an expert photographer. She has a beautiful tea service, eveiv plate, cup. and saucer of which bear's a little picture taken by Her Majesty.

Xear till' (/a-piaii Sea there are sc ciMl -vicinal lives" so called Ij.v tli native*, where natural gas issues froi tlie. gnmiiil, ami lws been alight for agi'i Miiuv church steeples in England ar covered with copper. One of these, i: Exeter, is covered with sheet copper, th metal being taken from the bottom o an old man-of-war. broke up at Devo.i portIt, i.s calculated that between 30,00 ind 40,000 bveeeh loading rilli-s and arw i|iiiiiiti(.v of iimmunitioit have bee smuggled into Afghanistan from th tfuekraa coast during the current yeai Inn-running from South _ l'ersia an iastern Arabia is also active. Buddhism is reckoned to hav 153 WIO.OOO adhcranls. Tire lHimernii .trength of Christianity is 421,000,001 .lohamuiedanisni, 21.'i,000,0IKl; Brahma'! iin, 77.">,000,O00 ; Confucianism, 18,001: 00 ; and Shintoism, 14,000,000. The person who first discovers a wreei n the shore should, providing there alio living people aboard, and, therefor' irgciicv"needed, take possession in per on until the arrival of coast-guards Itherwise prize-money is liable to 1« Mt by the discoverer. Llandudno, in Xortb Wales, one of tin nost charming of seaside resorts, oc upica geographically a unli|uc position, he town having one Bay, as it may be aid, at the front of it, Conway Hay, at In. back, whilst, at either end of its

sea-front rise two grand promontories the ('.veal-ami Uie iTittle Dime's Head. This vcar's drawing of military lots (tiracgau sort 1 was the occasion of a remarkable ease in Antwerp, where six brothers were called. The six men were born in the same year, their mother hacin<v triplets in January, and agam m the following December. The c nsc is unique in Belgium, and probably .everywhere else.