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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2561, 8 December 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

The average height of Frenchmen is 6ft. 4111., their average weight 1341b. It cost the Emperor of Austria £120,000 to entertain the Czar of Russia for three days. An Arabian, who, it is said, can speak eighteen languages, is employed at an ica factory in Birmingham, Alabama. The Russian Finance Minister is about to issue new credit notes to be covered by gold, to the extent of fifteen million roubles. Gold ore dug from the ground at Dol. gelly, Wales, last month—3o2 tons of it— yielded Hi ounces to the ton. The Nile has fallen thirty inches in a week. The water is now lower than was ever known in Egypt, even Uy tradition. The German Government is at present seriously discussing restrictive measures against tho constantly increasing so-culled gipsy plague. Miss Alice Cornewell, the "Madame Midas" of Hume, has just expended £300,000 on an estate in Wyong, New South Wales. It is found to possess an immeasurable extent of coal. Coboneii's verdicts are nothing if not complete. Thus an Indian inquest report runs, Pando died of the tiger eating him; there was no other cause of death. Nothing was left except some fingers, which probaby belonged to the right or left hand," Thev were two great tenors, and they loved each other with the affection of; which" only rival tenors are capable. They were at Dieppe, and when Mons. went out int'i the sea for a dip, Hignoc B swore a solemn oath in his bei>t Tuscan tlmt he would net bathe " in the yams ocean."