Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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NOTES AND NEWS
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ing himself. He is a baker, and works from eight o'clock at night to seven in the morning.
As soon as he has finished work he takes out his hounds and goes hunting. When the hunting season is over he spends his days on the banks of the rivers about Kinsale.
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Sleeping is only a habit, and at the most I sleep only five or six hours a month," he added. 'I never yawn, and I forget when I was last tired. Life is too short for sleep. I have never been seriously ill in my life."
Mr. McCarthy owns more than twenty fox hounds, and claims that some of the leading followers of hounds in England have hunted with him. "When the British soldiers were in Kinsale the officers frequently hunted with my pack, and many a good day's sport we had,'' he said. Of course, I could not afford a horse, but my knowledge of the country allowed me to keep up with the pack."
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Kinsale is eighteen miles from Cork city, but Mr. McCarthy frequently walks there and back in the same day.
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There are many methods of producing ozone but only a few have any commercial value. Competent authorities agree that