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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2147, 17 November 1885, Page 2

A paper by Francis It. Conner, in Frazer's Magazine, on'" Leon Say on the prosperity of Trance and the State Purchase of Railways," shows the extraordinary resources and growing wealth of France, which are statistically put forth, and may be thus summed up;—A reduction of public debt to the extent of 64 millions since the war of 1870-1; a growth of the public revenue of eight-millions, accompanied by a reductionof six millions sterling of taxation in two years, and an investment of the minor savings of industry to the amount of six to eight millions sterling per annum. .** . Signer Vecci and wife, wlwHere arrested with Signor Dorides, Editor of the Moniteur de Rome, for selling to a foreispi Power the plans of the Italian maritime defences, have attempted to commit suicide. The Ressegna says that Dorides intended the plans for France. An inebriate Scot, on his way to the police station in charge of the man in blue, suddenly collapsed and fell at the lamp-post. With a sweet smile he said, "I'm a' richt now Jean, blow out the candle." lA'.n • A novelty in drill in the is a race between. cavalry offi^rs! and a railroad train. In a run of Bixty : seven miles recently, the horsemen won. They would have won in a canter against a New Zealand train. They have been having it so waym in Arkansas that a baker is said to havo fallen into a red-hot oven and caught cold. There is no exaggeration about this, of course. The Yankee journalist always sticks to cold facts. • A Lovely Chaplet.-A late' fashion report Bays; "Nothing ca*jvo prettier than a chaplet of hop vines«R blossom," A rocent medical review says: " Nothing can be a better: renovator of the health than American Hop Bitters'. They aid in all the operations of nature; toning up the stomach, assisting the food to become properly assimilated, and promote healthy action in alljthe organs, The dictates oi fashion, aB well as.the laws of health, alike favour a right applicationrf hops." - Read: :#!V