On the authority of the Scientific American it may be mentioned that not less than 3,200,0001bs of glycerine are produced by the candle factories of the United States and utilised every day in America, and yet so late as the year 1854 it was run off into the sewers as a waste product. “You appear to have lost your stomach,” sarcastically remarked a boarder to a man whose plate he passed along to the carver for the sixth time. “ Bedad” exclaimed an astounded Irish waiter', “ it’s only the bottom of it he’s lost.”
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Patea Mail, 9 March 1882, Page 3
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93Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Patea Mail, 9 March 1882, Page 3
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