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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6689, 25 September 1882, Page 4

Edison's last is a lady's brooch with a tiny electric lamp in it. “ Knowledge,” reviewing Miss Kingsford, M.D.’s book, “ The Perfect Way in Diet," writes :— •* Pouchot says that all the details of man's digestive apparatus, as well as his dentitions are proofs of hisfrugivorous (fruiteating) origin. Professor Owen agrees that the close analogy between apes and man demonstrates his frugiverous nature. So also do Cuvier, Dinnmus, Lawerence, Bell, Gassendi, Flourens, and a host of other authorities. Yet another belief is as common as it is erroneous—namely, that ‘ flesh food contains the elements of physical force, and that to be strong, robust, and endowed with muscular energy it is necessary to partake largely of animal food.’ Yet no flesh-fed animal rivals instiength the herb-eating rhinoceros; in endurance, the horse, the mule, or the camel. A gorilla feeding on fruits and nuts is more than a match for the far heavier lion. ‘The buffido, the bison, the hippopotamus, bull, the zebra, the stag, are types of physical power and vast bulk, or of splendid development of limb. Only in ferocity are flesheating animals superior (?i to those who find their food in fruit and herbs. ’ ”