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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1183, 2 November 1894, Page 13

In the Antwerp Zoological Gardens, which are veritable gardens very beautifully kept, there is a heliotrope grown from a cutting struck in 1849. The plant is remarkable forits size. It is about six and a half feet high, and its stem is nearly eight inches round. The top is bushy, and when covered with flowers the perfun e fills the air for some distance around the plant. Mark Twain asserts that all modem jokes are . derived from 35 original jokes which were originated in the days of Socrates. Several of the originals, a little frayed, are still floating about. The finest tomb in Great Britain is un doubtedly that of the Duke of Hamilton, i n the grounds of the Duke’s seat. It costover <£200,000. sL . Snakes are trying all they know to o-eb into New Zealand. In Blenheim the other day a hotelkeeper found one which had come m a bunch of bananas. At least <£144,000,000 worth of British property is always on the sea,