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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 59, 3 April 1909, Page 4

l ? ranc« has three-fifths of an nrio of forest to pach inhabitant. Xew York "has moiv ivstnmaTrf* than any other city in the worhl. All the coaling: of ship* at Kingston, •hnnaiea. is performed l*y women. Some of l)i«' Thibetan lakes j;i the Himalayan mountains are 20,000 ft above sea itivcl. Xew ZealawTs" woalth is £*29tf per parson, and is the highest of any <*uintry in the world. Katies havr» l*»en scon Hying at ft. height of fiOOOft, and storks and buzzards at 2000rt. Although tho mining industry of Tndia is in Us infaTiey, mnployment is gtvon 10 152,000 miners. Nearly cveryfioclv smokes in; •laptui. The girls begin when they are teen years of age. and the boys a year earHor. Laplanders are the shortest people in Europe, the men averaging 4ft Uin. the women 4'tt 9i*n. A murder and suicide were announced by a postcard which was received by Mr. l-'rauk T'erkiiK of Birmingham, from his brother-in-bi w in Burton, whose name was (Joodreid. The postcard began:] " Klorrie is dead, and I do not 1 iiinV< lier husband will be here much longer." Mr. Perkins went to Burton, aad found hi* sister's body on a couch and hvr husband banging from a hook in the veiling. It is supposed that* the man strangled bis wife and then 'wrote the postcard, mid returned and lfcuigetl himself,