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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 3

At the present rate of excavation, l'ompeii will nut bo entirely uncovered before the year IU7O. _ , . According to recent statistics, the population of Russia is increasing at till! rate «.f 2,5110.000 annually. Tire police in Australia aye empowered to ell tor private dwellings in which tlK\\ suspect gambling. _ , There is more money 111 in France—in proportion to the population —than in any other country. The most elaborate train in the world belongs to the Kaiser. It cost £200,000, and took three years to build. In seven vears, sleeping sickness m Uganda lias 'killed i|i| less than 20(|,000 out of a population of 1)00,1100, The watch is composed of -ninety-eight pieces and its manufacture embraces more than two thousand distinct operations. , , liimior-selling in England was prohibited as early as the reign of the Saxon King lidgar, who closed hundreds of ale-houses. If a human being continued _to grow t t the rate he does during the first yea: 1 of life, at the age of ten he \vot|ld ft? over 68ft tall. , . . . . When a vessel is on her trial tup she runs four times over a measured mile, twice with and twice against tin tide. Her average speed is thus arrived at. It is estimated that the United King dom consumes the milk of 5,000.000 cow* annually,