A lecturer on chemistry said: "To • illustrate how elements that are perfectly I harmless in themselves may become. dei«_ tractive, by combination, take the-caie-of a gun and small boy. What can be more harmless than each of these when alone by itself P or what can be more dangerour in combination P "
Two gentlemen, noted for their fondness of exaggeration, were stating how the? fared at their different hotejs. One observed that at his hotel he had' tea so strong it was necessary to confine it in an iron vessel, "At mine," said the.other, " it is made so weak it has not strength to ran out of the teapot."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3117, 13 February 1879, Page 2
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