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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2668, 17 August 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

) . ■ p In Germany the public schools are all ' taught by men. " London has IG,OOO hansoms, and you can 3 go four miles for a shilling. , The majority of the working men at i Buenos Ayres are Italians. | TCatsek Wiu.T.ur advises the Sultan to , cede the Island of Crete to Greece. I T)u. Agnkw says a healthy woman can kill herself in about a year by horseback ' riding.* Pakis has-1000 rag-pickers. They live in a section of the city by themselves. 1 The enlargement in Russia's trade in cereals is next to America's in its remarkable rapidity. News has been received of the total destruction of the wheat crop of the Argentine Republic. A Munich firm has made a carriage propelled by gas which it generates from benzine or analagous material. j An osprey, or fishing eagle, now becoming a rare bird, made its appearanco on an estate near Musselburgh, Scotland the other day. The Illinois Legislature has enacted a law making it unlawful to sell or give to minors any of the " flash " literature of the day. Last year, when the price of potatoes was very low, a Dundee farmer put in a lot of them among chaff at the bottom of a silo. When it was opened the other day they were as fresh as when thoy were dug. Private letters from Paris speak of tho rush and crowd at the Exhibition as something that takes away the pleasure of a visit to the great metropolis. Prices have advancer! and good manners have declined. OiinisrixK Nii.sson'k finances may be judged from her 'competition at an auction with the agent of the Louvre. To his bid of Rr, 000 francs for a Madonno of Mabuz she offaled 10,000 francs and gut it. , The Colombo Garden Ceylon Tea con l;iiiis fragrance and pungency, demands no acquired taste, but after a first trial will bo 1 liked, adopted and pronounced the best Tea ' by one and all. Wholesale only at Brown, ' Baurett & Co. i