Wit and Wisdom.
Carpet weaving in Pewi* is done i exclusively by womeu. , Spain producei, on an average, •hot > three billion eorips per year, • It hw been ascertained that memory it stronger in smamer than in winter*. , Cadiz is built of atone of. such par* \ white that it lopfcs like a ©»ty of anow. ~ f: Intellect and judgment are strongest ; r in a man between the ages of forty ju»,.' fifty. ' /• 1 Owing to the dry and cold atmosphere* not a single infectious disease is jram t in Greenland. ■* - ' A hone nan pull three tons elf lerel steel rails for every ton be cju> jpnU Oft an ordinary high road. ""%£, The Caspian Sea has onty $Ub V 6£ salt to the ton of water; 0* Btt«« i Channel has 72, and the Desd S- a 187: - . I There are about 1,600000 'employed in the oM* j third of them dcw« in England. 1 I Fraaoe lost 2,900,00(Latt« w Welyard by the attack of the Owing to the authorities at frpe Xte* ™*3BS&i merit faav» »* tßaynjMqfeJfr ofrthepjagpe, Britisn miles 9 9^r^^^^m
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 2 May 1901, Page 4
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180Wit and Wisdom. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 2 May 1901, Page 4
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