; Paris streets aro cleaned daily ; mostly by women. New Hampshire has advocated the (Vustralian ballot'systetn of votinp. The census returns just completed allow the population of tho Indian Umpire to 285,000.000. •Jewish emigration from Bessarabia is fapidly assuming tho dimensions of a general, exodus. ' The knotit is being u<ed again in Russia by tho Governors and local magistrates with the utmost liberty. [ In a Swiss Canton the municipal authorities havo decided that all employers must share profits with the laborers. It is stated that there aro ICO members iu the Jiuglish House of Commons who abstain from the use,of intoxicating liquors. At Startford-on-Avon, last year, 20,000 visitors from more than thirty countries paid to see thb home of Shakespeare. In Silesia, Germany, children of five years get fifteen cents for pasting 1,000 match boxes. Some ouly do 1,000 in a weelc. The year IS9O began with a price of 1%1!00 per ton for whalebone. Two thousand threo hundred pounds is the quoted prica for this your. A system ot oiectric cabs havo been introduced in Stutgart, and with such, suuuess that tlie'cab horse is likoly to be relegated to other fields of usefulness, The proposal of Baron Hirsch to found li colony of 300,000 Russian Jews in the Argentine Rebublie has been rejected. So has a similar application to Uruguay. A dividend of one penuy iu the pouud of Tua is equal to 10 per cent. This is the saving effected on every purchase of Arthur Nathan's packed Teae at 2s and '2a 6d per lb. Good interest fot your money. 91
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2989, 10 September 1891, Page 2
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