Pocket-handkerchiefs are now made out of thistle down. The Irish officials report that no notorious informers have proceeded to Australia. The Rev. J. Jasper, a negro theologian and astronomer, is going from America to England to prove that the sun moves. An artesian well-boring near Lake Macquarie, N.S.W., has resulted in tapping water which rises 30 feet above the surface. A Frenchman has invented a gas by which he can kill a’l the rabbits in Australia. He has offered the patent to the Victorian Gvernment for £2OOO. M. Waddington who has just received the appointment of French Amb*s-ad rin London, w-*s educated in England, and is of English extrac'ion. Things are coming to a pretty pass in Kentucky when a preacher has his salary docked for ‘time lost on a trip to fight a duel in a distant part of the State.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1345, 21 August 1883, Page 4
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142Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1345, 21 August 1883, Page 4
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