The latest English word in Paris is "struggforlifer," meaning one who has to struggle to get a living. Tme daily opening of the churches in England is being advocated heartily by Lord Carnarvon and the Bishop of Cambridge.
The largest china vase in the world is oleven feet high, is valued at 2000 dollars, and it took eight years to make it—at Hanley, England.
Ten millions sterling will bo spent by the Japanese Government in the next 10 years in the purchase of 15 ironclads and 30 torpedo-boats.
A WHITE marble bust of Apollo, said to be of wonderful beauty, has just arrived in Constantinople from Smyrna, where it was excavated. Connoisseurs say that it is of the time of Praxiteles,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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121Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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