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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 35, 6 March 1909, Page 4

Something like 0000 miles of noli a'e sot nightly in the Xortlt Sea iu tlm herring-fishing season. During the past year no loss tlia'.i £7,742,910 has been contributed lo 707 charitable institutions iu London. Iu Sweden the license law forbids anyone to buy flrfcik without purchasing something to eat at the same time. In the Bavarian Eoyal Family there have been twenty-seven eases of insanity during the last hundred years. Owing iu the friction ol the tides, the earth is gradually losing speed. The days are now half a second longer than they were iu 1802. The greatest incubator in the world is at Batary, near Sydney. It accommodates 11,400 duck eggs or 14,080 liens' eggs. The inventor of absinthe sold liu secret for a trifle to a mat), who disposed of it for £IO,OOO to a third person, who made millions out of it. In the foursr of seventy-five year?, 'from 1783 to 1857, the kingdom of Xaples lost at least 111,000. inhabitants through earthquakes, or about 1500 a vcar. out of au average population of 6,000,000, . , ...... . . .