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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3

The largest piece of glass ever made in the United States is now on exhibition at Louisville. It is 15ft. long and lljft. wide. It has been calculated that to make the 950,000 tons of paper annually required for the supply of the world, 430 days’ medium flow of water down the river Thames would be needed. There is bad news for smokers. Two wellknown French chemists have published an analysis of tobacco smoke, in which they find, first, prussic acid, and secondly, an alkaloid of an agreeable odour, but very dangerous to breathe, and so poisonous that one-twentieth part of a drop destroys animal life. This alkaloid appears to be identical with collidine, which has previously been observed In the distillation of organic substances. Mistress: “ How many times must I call you?” Bridget: “That depends on how many times yez wants me.” Mistress: “I have called you over and over again. Bridget I Bridget! ” Bridget: “ Och! I thought yez was aft her thrying to get the correct way of spakeing it ’ ” J uer bus be !. added to the collection in LUdi BrasseyV “use at the Fisheries Exhibition* a casket co£. + lining the eighty-four guineas which were in Lord Nelson’s pocket at the time he received his fai<jl wound at Trafalgar. JB Germany possesses the oldest priest in the world. He is 108 years old, and been eighty-four years in sacerdotal ordßs He lives at Dupel, enjoys excellent heaKu and fulfils all his religious duties with most scrupulous exactness.