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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2924, 11 April 1891, Page 3

Krupp, the Prussian eruninaker, lias an annual income of about £300,000. Locusts and drought have reduced the maize crop of the Kin de la Plata districts in South America to one-fourth the yield of lash year. .Professor Bramaun, one of the physicians who attended the Emperor Frederick in his last iliness, ling been ennobled by the present cmueror. The Emperor of (iermany is an amateur photographer. This may have been one reason why Bismarck was so ready to take to the woods. Mrs Shaw, the famous whistler, is still in Sfc l'tjler.sburg making herself famuus and rich. She has t-et the Czar whistling to keep his courage up." In Great Britain during ISOO, it is computed, the consumption of tea for each person averaged 5 S-lOOths pounds, "exceeding that of any previous year. JTheru are about 2500 women in the United States who hold diplomas from medical colleges. The first woman physician was Elizabeth Blackwell, who gradu a ted in IS IS. The building of the Finance Ministry at Home, a gigantic edifice, put up in 1.570, threatens to collapse, being faulty in construction. It will cost £'100,000 to make the necessary repairs. A prize tight in Portugal is something like u seige. Tw»- pugilists there recently engaged in a prize fight for I,l'J 7 rminds. They fought six hours a day, stopping at noon to eat and smoke.