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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2185, 14 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

The smoke from the bowl of one’s pipe is blue, because’, coming direct from tlie red-liot tobacco, it is very highly oxidised; but tho smoke from one’s lips is gre3', because it is highly watered and hydrocarbonized. In Tasmania no person under 13 \-ears of age is allowed to smoke in a puhlio place. Nearly everybody smokes in Jaipan; the girls begin when they are ten 3’ears of age, and the boys a year earlier. Tho searchlights to be fitted to His Alaje.st3’’sbattleships now being built on the Clyde aro of extraordinary power. It will bo possible to read a newspajier b>’ tho light of ono at a distance of about 18 miles. The projector of these wonderful lights is no less than 48in. in diameter, and the illuminant is the electric arc. Tho apparatus is directed by moans of electric motors, instead of, as previously arranged, by hand. One curious fact about these and similar projectors is that a. mail standing quite closo in front of the lens is not dazzled by tlie light, whereas one standing 20ft. away is so blinded that lie would be unable to see that tlio first, man was standing in the light at all. The nearer man, however, would find his position untenable, as tlie heat from the projector is intense.