A kind of spirit, equal in strength to Scotch ■whiskey, is now manufactured in India from toffee pulp. '' A cont mpornry points out that borax, is a certain exterminator of cockroaches. We (Hock) remember some years 'since being shoWn the effect p! an application' of ppWdered borax opfcside the holes of these insects' in an old house in the Strand. They were destroyed literally hy thousands,
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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66Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2692, 3 October 1871, Page 3
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