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Patea Mail, 15 April 1882, Page 3

People who eat fast should order their coffins, insure their lives for the benefit of their families, and never start on hazardous journeys. It may be their last. More apopletic fits are brought on by fast eating than by anything else; more indigestion and dyspepsia is the result of rushing down food than of the food itself; more constipation is brought about by bolting meals than by the meals themselves. Speaking of the success of his “John Ploughman’s Talk,” Mr Spurgeon confesses that it has amazed him. “Our book,” he says, “is simplicity itself, and quite devoid of genius—only a number of proverbs strung together-; and:yet here it is in a new edition, selling still after 300,000 have gone forth. A remarkable use is being made of potatoe. The cleaned peeled tuber is macerated in a solution of sulphuric acid. The result is dried between sheets of blotting paper, and then pressed. Of this all manner' of small articles are made, from combs to collars and even billiard: balls, for which the hard, brilliantly white material is well fitted.