DID YOU KNOW THAT— 
Italy has 400 princes and 4500 dukes. 
One mile of railway takes 270 tons of 
rails. 
The average life of a London house is, at 
the outside, two centuries. 
India’s revenue is now £49,000,000, and 
exceeds expenditure by nearly £2,000,000. 
Francs grows 1,600,000 tons of apples 
yearly, and makes 240 million gallons of 
cider, 
The cost of the present Government 
inspection of Chicago tinned meat is no 
less than £600,000 a year. 
In Turin a paper used to appear nine 
years ago which was printed in luminous 
ink, so that it could be read in the dark, 
New York has thirty-nine suburbs in 
New Jersey, and five in New York State, 
with a combined population of over 
1,000,000. : 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
at $ 
STATUARY PAVILION, BALLARAT -GARDENS. 
Canada’s trade with the United States is 
now nearly three times greater than her 
trade with the mother country. 
WHITING & CO. 
DYERS, CLEANERS, & PRESSERS, 
268 Rundle Street East 
(Two Doors from Charlick Bros.) 
ALL KINDS OF WORK DONE, viz., 
Gents’ Suits thoroughly cleaned and pressed 
at 5s. 6d,; dyed any color. 7s. 6d. 
Ladies’ Garments, all kinds, cleaned and 
pressed, 5s.; dyed, 7s, 
All kinds of Silks, Feathers, Gloves, and 
Hats Cleaned and Blocked. 
French Cleaning a speciality, 
All Repairs neatly and promptly executed. 
We desire to say that we are prepared to 
guarantee our work equal to anything in 
the City, and to do all kinds of work at 
Reasonable Prices. 
Give us a trial and prove us. 
offered. 
” 
iGo to the 
Dimond Sudias 
For Good Work and Up-to-dato Photo- 
graphs, which include 
POST CARDS from 5s per doz. 
PARIS PANELS, 15s per doz, 
CABINETS from 10s 6d per doz., in< 
cluding a beautiful enlargement 12 x 10. 
BRIDAL GROUPS & FAMILY GROUPS. 
Our Picture Frames are the Best and 
Cheapest in the City for Artistic Mouldings, 
and an unlimited supply of colored Plates, 
Engravings, Etchings, etc,, at the most 
Reasonable and Ridiculous Prices ever 
Pen cana eT} 
Norr Appress— 
DIMOND BROS., 
150 Rundle Street. 
