Ten thousand tobacco-plants can be grown to the acre.
Jules Bernas. a flute player in a music-hall in Paris, fell in love with one of the singers, a nd declared his alTi'dion. She received his declaration with laughter, whereupon the discomfited flautist returned to his lodging and prepared to die. He dressed himself in evening clothes, and his fellow-lodgers heard him pla.\ ing various doleful melodies on his (lute. Then he filled the instrument with sulphuric acid, which he drank, with tho result that he died within an hour. On the tal.de M. i.ernas left a note, which read : "Marie, i love you. As 1 have lived l>v mv flute, so shall I die."
Thi' old tfentk'iunn was very angry : there could i>« no doubt about thn.t, Threatening; the other with his list, hu shouted, "[f your brain was put in a mustard seed, it would have a.s much room as a shrimp, in the. Atlantic !"
Architect, WESLEY BUILDINGS, Hamilton, Waikato.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 118, 24 December 1908, Page 4
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161Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 118, 24 December 1908, Page 4
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