Czar is a Russian rendering of Cesar. The first navy to use torpedoes was the Austrian. Britain's Lee-Enfields will send a bullet two miles. Cambric was invented by an inhabitant of Cambrai. At sea an incompetent sailor is called a "marine/ 1 The Romans used to coat their oysters with honey. There are eleven thousand apartments in the Vatican. Germany lost only 50,000 men in the Franco-Prussian war. Baby alligators may bo bought in London {or about £3 10s. ''Grog" is one part of rum mlTftl with three parts of water. The red grouse is the only bird that is exclusively British,
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1916, Page 12
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102Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1916, Page 12
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