The youth pf London light their cigars with a new invention, called poudre de feu. It consists of pyrophorus, which is preserved in a small tin case, with a narrow orifice. When a smaU quantity of this dark powder is poured out on the end of a cigarjand wreathed on gently, it becomes incandescent, and lights the pipe or cigar. ' A New Use pob Photogbapht. — A new , phase of photographic usefulness was seen in the recent Brewster Sessions at South Shields. The lnwvers supplemented their own descriptive .bility, and endeavored to convey to the bench a better idea of the appearance of the houses whose claims they were advocating, by producing photogrrphic views of the premises and the neighhorhood.
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Southland Times, Issue 635, 22 February 1867, Page 3
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119Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Issue 635, 22 February 1867, Page 3
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