Good brandy has.lso per cent, of alcu sol. \ Sleet consists of'a mixture of snow and rain, k Practically ouo-'>venth of Ireland's area- is bog. The average nnlual fall of snow in New York Is 7ft. The average Atlantic fog is thirty miles in diameter. A knife, in the miking, passes through seventy different hands. The snowstorm of January, 1805, cost London nearly £IOO,OOO. A ton of oil has been obtained frojn the tongue of a single whale. In Holland, (Jit average, number of loaths through railway accidents is one » year. ' k While it takes Kngland two yo-~ *■■ build a battleship- it takes Fran years.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 277, 31 December 1909, Page 4
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104Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 277, 31 December 1909, Page 4
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