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_ , A "'single- grain of gold,, after -ha\tng been qonverted into gold leaf, will cover 46 square inches. " < It has b^en proved by .experiments that it fish get beyond, a certain depth in the - sea, "they die,- being unable to support the .pressure -of the. water. In England and Wales about one in four' of the population has an -account in- the Post -Office Savings - Bank ; . in Ireland, one -in ten ; and, in Scotland, one -in: eleven. " -.' , . " ' ■" \ lodine was' discovered in 1812 by Courtois. It is found in several "marine- plants and ''extracted by a simply jjroceas. Its use in m-ed'icine is said -to ' date -from -about 1825, when it .was- first' employed -in th&hospitals of London and" Paris. ■> ... . *
Among the- treasures of -the Haps"burgs inV-the Hof- ~ burg at Vienna is a clumsy .thimble engraved ' A.- V. . W., 1684.' It -is said to be the. parent thimble of the 1 world, and -it was fashioned "of a silver . coin by some ingenious Dutchman, who . presented ' it", to his ladylove. Little three-year-old- Bessie-ran flying- down~the front . steps with an agonising- cry of * Papa ! Papa ! ' Her I father had- started ' do wn-towiC but he stopped . waited: 'What js it," Bessie?' he" asked. 'I want , .to kiss- you good-bye;' she -. said: "Well, I'm waiting .-for the- kiss,'- -he said. 4 I'll give it to: you, 'she, replied, with trembling lips and quivering .chin," ' just- as soon as, I can- make the pucker.' There were some' phases of country iife with which the Jit.tle-^.city rghi had *as- yet only,, one day's-- acquaintance, but- the rights- of property owners aiwfproperty renters were firmly fixed in heivjmind. 'TSLother!' she called in evident "excitement, the* morning after the family had settled for the summer in Sunset View Cottage.- -'Mother ! Just come here and look ! There are somebody's hens-w iping their feet on our nice clean, grass ! ' , . <
- The tobacco crop lor the season in Queensland wilL be about- 265 tons. .' The largest crop in o n e year was 506 tons. Practically all of tlie tobacco was of the . heavier type suitable only for the, pipe, and was grown" --.in the Texas district, near' ihtTNew Wales boxThe, price' will be about eidperTlij; so that a very \&ge cheque is" flue to growers: For the most part the tobacco is taken "-by the Trust-; but twom'anufacturers in Brisbane take between seventy and eighty tons, with a growing traded "owing to the increased .popularity of- colonial tobacco. Pipe tobacco grows about half a "ton" to.-- the acre; cigar tobacco about - three-quarters of a -toni. Only about five acres'* of land were under cigar .leaf in Queensland last yeari but the area will expand jto^fully fifty acres this year. "T-he history of - the typewriter is interesting,' said an inventor. ' The first patented machine, was Henry Mill's. Jt was as- big as -a- bureau, and' made no pop-" ular appeal. This was in England fn lBl4. The first type bar machine was made in America. Its inventor was A. I-I. Beach. The. patent was taken out in ._ 1856. The Beach typewriter was not practical. The . first practical typewriter was invented by -Latham -Shoies in 1567. Stoles had for partners S: W. Soule s and Carlos G-lidden, bub "these two "men' became -dis- • couraged and dropped out". Lt-wasn't fill ;some years later that Shoies got his , machine ready, for the market. Then he took it to r a - big" firm 'of -g^inmakers, -the Remingtons, and ifc at once J began to Wl '"on a large sealer. Shales remained in the employ'" of -the Remingtons up .to the time of his" death. '-" ~ • * The lightest, finest-grained, and whitest bread in the world is that of France, -where . bread-making is regular " - ted by law and is done almost' wholly by bakers. •, Very few servants or housewives of ' France bake - bread," and never except in country places. The material,, size -of loaf, and weight are regulated" by law ahd "any\ buyer may demand' of the bakci that he" shall • weigh; the loaf 'before accepting- it. If.it falls short then,, a- fine follows. " Wheat is. the grain of' which - French , breads are made, and black bread finds no ' favor in this land of dainty eaters. There is no v other country where the .law has 'given so -gre"afc at-_-tention to the staff of life as in' France, and-- ' sour _ bread- is_ not to be found there." If' one likes that he ;/can .\Uifc Germany and eat pumper-nickel; a bread -of .- ry-e, less nutritious " "than wheat, and quite uninviting • ; until , one beoomes accustomed to it. .Germany- is the land' of black bread, as Fiance is of white, and just -as- the people of the . two countries -differ in inteilec1 tual qualities do their breads differ in character.
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 38
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