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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3026, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

There are nearly 10,000 professors of music in London.

A large fire and quick boiling are groat enemies of good soup. Towels with handsome bright borders should never be boiled.

Out ot 250,000,003 people in :■!! India less less than 11,000,000 can road and write. The arm with which the policemui holds his club gradually grows longer than the other.

It is now impossible to obtain in Er.-inco a bottle of pure cognac brandy under 25 francs.

Tho words in common use by the ordinary individual are estimated at from 1,000 to 3,000.

"A genuine patriot," said an election orator recently, " must iit all times be piepared to die for his country, oven though it should cost him his life !"

Considerably over half the crime of Paria is coirmitted by criminals between fifteen and twenty yenrs of age. There have loan 12,000 such cups within twelve months.

Ono of the novelties at the Chicago World's Fair will he a miniature Venice. Houses will be built mit in the lake and connected bv canals similar to chose in c ! ie Venetian city.