la accordance with Siamese custom, the body of the recently-deceased Crown Prince was tightly bound up, the chin resting on the knees. It was then placed’ in an iron urn, which was put into a magnificent urn of gold, studded with precious atones. This was placed on a golden pyramid 9ffc high, iu a building adjoining the grand palace. Hera the body will remain for a year, and then be consigned to the flames. About 130 persons suffered from poisoning after -eating soup presented to her customers as a Christmas box by the landlady of a public-house near Birmingham. One death occurred, and at the adjourned inaueat,' a specialist reported that tho soup- was found to contain the bacteria of sewer-gas, which increased at the rate of 10,000 a day. Their presence was said to be due to the soup being allowed to cool in asbbiler within 4ft of an unfcrapped drain. "it has been reckoned that the seeds o! one kind of thistle alone would bo sufficient to choke tho whole face of the agricultural land in Britain in about three years if it were suffered to grow untouched.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10651, 11 May 1895, Page 6
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