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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2483, 9 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Select all fruit trees, plauts, and vines, with special reference to your climate, soil, markets and home use. The Corral in use by the citizens of Belleville, California, in their rabbit drives has seen service five times only ; and in that time more than 10,000 rabbits have been corraled and killed. There are five of these corrals in use in Tulare county, California; and, allowing that each of them has been equally successful in destroying the rabbit pest, we find that over 50,000 rabbits have been killed in the country referred to within the last three months.

The latest craze among the fashionable ladies of America, according to a Chicago newspaper, is to wear a diamond embedded in one of their front teeth ! This remarkable development of feminine vanity is said to owe its origin to a favourite burlesque actress in New York, who thought it would be very delightful indeed to flash dazzling gleams of light upon her admirers every time she opened her mouth. The diamond—of course a very small one—is fixed in a false front tooth two-thirds the size of the natural incisor, a portion of which is cut away and the false tooth "pivoted" on to the real one. Were the gem embedded in a natural tooth, it would apcedily cause it to decay. The tooth sclccted for adornment is always the most prominent, and the lady to whom

the credit of this brilliant inspiration is due is said to have created a very great sensation upon her first appearance with a diamond in li3r mouth. The Now York dentist who aided her to achieve this triumph says he has just received half a dozen orders for front teeth set with diamonds,