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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2346, 23 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

KIP gloves on the hands of sin- f:iir ar--a great leveller. One is unable to toll whether the protuberances on the fingers of the gloves are the outlines of rings or warts. Tuk dials of the Westminster clock are 221 feet in diameter, and contain i'll! square feet each. Each minute is fourt-n inches wide. The only larger dial in ticworld is in Mechlin Church, which is Pi feet wide. The minute hands of the Westminster clock are partly counterpoised outside, making their total length 17i'. A NEW trumpet has ham adopt'd f or the French army. As the trumpeters now march in front of the regimen*, and the mouth of the trumpet Ins hithert > be-n turned from the soldiers tint folio v, thy have often heard the animating tones indistinctly ; now the mouth of thitririnpct is to he turned toward the in. n at the back of the trumpeters. Tin- n-w trumpet is tievir to be sonnd-d • x pt * >r the attack or for victory.