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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 194, 21 September 1909, Page 3

In 1858 the first Atlaatic cable was •«i'4aid. , . The first balloon accent was made m '^1783. -< there are 77,683,084 teres in the i j British Isles. _ »' 5' Banknotes were first issued in China gym b.c. < 'European porcelain was first manaSi lWtnred in Dresden about 1708. I world's record high jump for a torse ig 7ft Bm. ' 'Western Canada last year produced 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. During ten years France will spend f£liojooo,ooo on naval construction. .■ Great Britain possesses over £31,000,DOO' Worth of shares in the Suez Canal. took Captain Webb 21 hours 45 minutes to Bwim the Channel in 1875. Great Britain has spent £95,000,000 in nar«l construction in nine years. Neptune takes over 160 years to make one complete revolution round the sun. By nibbling matches, mice recently Caused a serious fire in a post office h : England. n It has beien estimated that it took the gj«fetre4in from which the Niagara Falls !•. originate Ho less than 85,000 years to iol|ow out the first three miles of its JE LATEST AND THE BEST Bfly for Chest Complains is Dr ioMj Nerr Discovery for Coughs and '•lt '-4sures when: all else fails. " land & ObUfciable every