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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 41, 13 March 1909, Page 3

About 1,200,000 people are always] afloat on Hie seas of the world. Married couples in Norway may travel by rail for one fare and a-fyilf, One mile of ttdol falls averages 130 loll* of metal and 145 tons or iron. Seven members, each of whom draws .C-ISO a year, constitute the Swiss Cabinet. Servians dislike fair hair, and even the white lock's oi old ago are dyed to a (lark shade. In 1336 the Danube river was frozen to tlie bottom, and remained so for a Ion" tlmo. In Copenhagen the Salvation Army holds the monopoly of the street shoeblacking business. Some' 000.000 tons of ice are produced in Norway annually. . Of this, London purchases one-third. All the Russian railway stations keep complaint-books, where passengers may enter complaints. i Twenty-five per cent, of women cam their own living. Married men commit suicide more frequently than bachelors. Kinj; Clcorge of Greece is the poorest i of all European monartflis. I Kteel for penkWves is tempered, at 4?0(lo«j (for table-knives, at !530dcg; ami for saws, at SOOdeg. I Railway fares in India 9X& the lowest in the world, ..