A doctor in Yokohama, Japan, has built himself a novel house with a view to guarding against microbes. The walls of this remarkable edifice are made of blocks of grass. They are built hollow, tho interstices being tilled up with a solution of salts of soda, which is intended to regulato the temperature of the interior. The windows are hermetically closed, awl air is only admitted after passing through filters. Colonel Brown, chief embarkation officer at Southampton; fell down the held of the Ortoiio recently and .was killed,.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19110429.2.112
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 11
Word Count
88Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in