SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 46, 8 April 1899, Page 3

SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Salvation Army — Harvest Festival on Sunday. C. A. Wilson — Enrolling members for - shorthand class. Waknafce Football Clvb — Meeting tonight. Library Hall — Kinematograph this evening. A. Jones & Co. — New advertisement.

It hss been stated that George Sutherland has won over £700 m puzes during the past two seasons. A new cork pavement is f avomably regarded by the municipal authorities in several cities. The last two descendants of Christopher Columbus are said to be occupants of a poor house in Cadiz. In the Bank of England 60 folio volumes or ledgers are filled daily with* writing in. keeping the accounts. Aa m^eaious mechanical device pastes paper labels on 100,000 cans in 10 houis. Down a shoot rolls a ceaseless procession of cans, and each can pick up a label as it passes. The codfish industry of Newfoundland is the largest of its kind in the world, and ha» been in existence nearly four centuries. The annual export amounts to an average of about 1,350,000cwt. Nearly everybody smokes in Manila. It is a common sight, after sundown, to see a father out for a stroll with his wite and children, and everyone of them over the age of five years suaoking a cigarette. The longest bridge across the Danube is 1900 ft in length ; Waterloo Bridge, over the Thames, io 1380 ft; Westminster Bridge, over the Thames is 1160tt ; the Saratov Bridge, across the Volga, 4872 f t; and the Freiburg, in Switzerland, 1095 ft. The sum of £100,000 is to be expended in improving and extendiug the approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge on the New York side.