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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2593, 23 February 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

TIIEItE aro 11,48(5 females commercial travellers in the United States. In Russia last year 80,000 dramshops were done away with by law. TiJH prize fur a new font for the Milan Cathedral, -10,000 lire, has been awarded to Signor Brent.im, a Milanese. Florence, which was ouco ono of the cheapest of European cities in which to live, is now ono of the most expensive. The (i-erman East African Company has lost i.'350,000 by the troubles in Zanzibar, and is for the time practically ruined. A new English game called "naval blockade" has recently been invented, which is said to bo as intricate and fascinating as chess. Till-: Capo Argus prints some articles strongly favouring the importation of poor English boys and girls into the Cape Colony. Colonel Duncan, M.P. a noted English soldier, died recently from painters' colic, traceable to sleeping in a house newly painted. The appearance of the Linpress Eugenie is described vividly by a Paris correspondent as follows :—A fragile form, veiled and robed in black, a pallid face and snow-white hair, and the infirm gait of a rheumatic invalid—such is the imago now presented by her who was the most famous beauty on earth, and the world's queen of fashion as well, some thirty-five years ago.