BREVITIES.
Tu Singar. Malay, the time is told by placing two bottles neck to neck, and sand is put into one of them, which pours itself into the other every halfhour. An attendant sounds the hours on a gong. There art only 770,000 natives in all of Siberia.
In Germany 55.000 toils of tobacco are consumed iu a year.
There are no' fewer than 20S dilTerent characters in the Abyssinian alphabet. The greyhound, which can cover a mile in oncminute twenty-eight seconds, In German prisons chess clubs are by no means' uncommon. They are encouraged by the authorities as providing healthy mental relaxation for wellconducted prisoners. When a burglar wants to break into a Peruvian house lie lakes' a sponge and a bucket nf water and moistens the walls, which are covered with only a thin coating n't mud and easily dissolve upon the application of moisture. .
'Horticulturists have discovered that roses and mignonette cannot live together. If the two flowers are placed together in a vase, both willier within half an hour.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 4
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173BREVITIES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 4
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