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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 136, 13 April 1901, Page 4

A good camel wiU travel one hundred mi'es a day for ten days. The preparation of. human hair for the market gives employment to 7,000 Parisians.

There is an immense garden in Chin a that embraces an area of 50,000 square miles. It is all meadow laud and is filled with lakes, ponds, and canals. In some parts of New Zealand orange*growing is a very profitable industry. Sometimes the crop from an acre of trees amounts in value to more than £2OO.

A dark, g'oomy, blue sky denotes wind, but a bright blue sky indicites fine weather. Generally, the softer clouds look, the le-s wind, but peihaps more rain, may be expected, and the harder, more “ greasy,” rolled, tufted 1 or tagged,, the stronger the coming wind will prove. Half a lemon makes a good substitute for a bar of toilet soap, and an orange* cut in half and rubbed on a sooty kettle; makes very good shoe*blacking, which takes a fine polish.