Australian waters contain 1291 species of fish. It is said that th,e largest organ in the world has been built by "Walck, of Ludwigaburg, and placed in the Cathedral of Riga. It measures 30ft in width, 32ft from back to front, and 65ft in height. It has not less than 6826 pipes, distributed among 124 sounding stops. The petrified wood, which is abundant in Arizona, Wyoming, and Rocky Mountain regions, is utilised in San Francisco, where there is now a factory for cutting and polishing these petrifactions into mantelpieces, tiles, tablets, and other architectural parts for which marble or slate is commonly used. Archdeacon Parrar recently stated that " there was many a working man, many a cabman, many a labourer, many an artisan, who spent every day of his life on intoxicating drink a sum which he, the preacher, could not afford, and which he should think it criminally luxurious and disgracefully extravagant to spend."
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7524, 14 April 1885, Page 6
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