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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

It is predicted that when Don Pedro dies an effort will be made to overthrow the Brazilian throne and establish a Republic. A aosß at Heldersheim has been known since the year 1079. This perfume purveyor is, uo doubt, the oldest rose in the world. Princess Eugenie of Sweden sacrificed her family jewels to build a hospital upon an island off the coast, where pour cripples might be nursed and healed. Talk about "adding insult to injury !" Mr Gladstone has presented to a church in Flintshire the money he received for his reply to Robert G. Ingersoll. The reason that France refuses to sign the Sugar Bounty Convention is that it fears being crowded out of tho South American markets by the United States. On the Volga river in Russia, the longest stream in Europe, there are 7,000 vessels at work, and 200,000 men work on it handling 5,000,000 tons of merchandise per year. A Scotchman in Green Bay has been fined ten dollars for playing the bag-pipes, and he wants to make it an international affair. He calls it a " blow "at liberty. The curio dealers at Kyoto, Japan, have decided to open a show-room near the Kitano Temple, whero "no article will be admitted that is less tluui one thousand years old,"