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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 15, 4 July 1899, Page 1

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An immense fissure three miles long, and from 4ffc to 16ft in width has recently appeared m. the earth on an Indian reservation in America. A lantern let down to a distance of 150 ft; has failed to reach the bottom. One experiment the Hadfield Projectile Company carried out lately, in which only one shot was fired, cost .£lOOO. The shell pierced 10m of Harveyised steel armour, 9in of wood backing, and penetrated 30ft into a sandbank behind. In India every town of any size has its own ice factory, some of them capable of turning out from 500 to 1000 tons of ice a day. And, the same • thing holds good in Egypt and the Southern States of America. Thousands of Egyptians at the present day live in tombs, eating, sleeping, wooing, loving, laughing, dancing, and singing : doing all their household work among the mummies and sarcophagi. One of the attractions' iti_ London game 'shops is bear, especially beat hams, and it is now i usual to seea frozen bear hung out as a draw. It's not equal to " prime Canterbury," of course, except to people -who can chew, and like a leathery chew at that. l The custom of wearing roses in their hair by the Lancashire Regiment on. the anni\ersary of the Battle of Mmden originated in a curious manner. On the c(ay r of the battle, August Ist, 1759, the men passed through a field of roses, each man plucking a rose and placing it in his bonnet, waarmg the flower dtrmg the fight. This commenced the custom, which obtains at the present da.y, of wearing roses on the anniversary of the battle. If.you like the Advertiser kindly show it to your triends and suggest that they should order it at once ; the price is only 2s 6d per quarter, paid in ad» vance. Parchment on the best banjos is made of woit-skin. About 1.500,000 persons are em* ployed in the coal mines of the world. " Just m time" is the brother of' "Just too late." Eecently a spot was discovered on the sun which is said to be 30,000 miles in diameter. The first pawnbroking establishment was opened in Bavaria in 1198. Lon-_ don did not have one till 1361. Five thousand cits', of Capetown express a hope that the Imperial policy towards the Transvaal will not be relaxed. Beef is the most nutritious and strength- giving food. It can be eaten, continuously longer than any kind of meati The cemeteries in and around. London cover 2000 acres, and the land they occupy represents a capital • of £20,000,000. The N ew Prince of Wales Dry, Dock at Swansea, erected at a cost of and oym of the largest docks in the Bristol*Cfrahriel, being 450 ft. long and 120 ft. wide ? was.sopenecj lately in tb.s presence of a large, assemblage. Society in London is all disturbed by the question whether a lady should recognise a gentleman while-heis hay« ing his Jboote^blacke^d-T^ fctaf^V