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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1543, 24 November 1883, Page 4

Prince Bismarck's bust for the monument on the Niedenvald, on which Professor Schilling is now working, is nearly completed. Tlio latest accounts state that the Chancellor sees Very few visitors. He bathes daily, and strictly obeys the prescriptions of his doctor, which seem to agree with hiin. He is beginning to look better, though still jaundiced and aged. An old gentleman has just died in France at the ripe age of seventy, leaving behind him a log book of all that he lias drunk for the last fifty years; His habits in this respect were verv regular, bis daily allowance being four litres of wine (seven pints), a couple of glasses of absinthe before each of his three meals, and twelve' petits verres' of cognac, rum, or some other spirit, "to drive away despondency," The total for the half-century thus comes to Wine, 127,827 pints; absinthe, 109,5G6 glasses; spirits, 2!g,132 glasses. The old gentleman boasted that he had never had a day's illness in his life, The total exports from the United States to Font!) America during the lust liscal year were £4,761,600 as against £9,365,800 from France, and £16.119,200 from England. Stockport, England, has a Sunday school which comprises in its membership 400 teachers and 4500 children, and nearly 96,000 childrenhave passed through the school since its commencement, The singing is led by an orchestra with 16 violins among the instruments. The spread of education has already marked results in the country districts of France where once ignorance reigned supreme, If the discontent at added burdens and duties can bo allayed, France will soon be numbered among the European countries which have decently instructed common folk. Scotland, out of a population of 4,000,000, sends 650 students to her universities, while the two great English universities have but 5000 students, Germany, out of a population of 43,000,000 bas 22,500 univetsity students.