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Temuka Leader, Issue 2089, 23 August 1890, Page 3

A sew and very chrrming use of the phonograph baa been thought of in connection with the forthcoming Stanley marriage (says a Home paper of July 11th). Colouel Grouraud has presented to Mr Stanley a phonograph as a wedding present. There are only four phonographs in England. Three will be in Westminster Abbey during the wedding service. Qne will be placed Iq the Tower, to recprd the full sound., of ..the.. ; wedding bells. The second phonograph will be placed by the organ to note the music and the Wedding March; The third will be placed in the choir, and give the hjmn. as sung by the voices. These records will be presented by Colonel G-ouraud to Mr and Mrs Stanley, so that at any time hereafter the wedding bells, the organ, and the voices will sound as on the 12th July, 1890. One of the moat interesting chapters in an American new etory book of natural hißtory, called " A Froze* Dragon, " tells how animals and reptiles spend the winter. Tt says: In Ceylon th,e oropodiles hibernate aa ao many fiabes dicing the dry Benson, lying in their .hardened caves sometimes for two seasons without evidince of life and their sudden appearance has often given rise to stories of spontaneous generation. Thus, travellers have encamped on a dry barren country that did not show the slightest signs of life, A shower counes, and coveiß the' depressions with water, and in half aa hour the air resounds with the hoarse cries of frogc, while the splashes tell of larger forms that have been asoused by the welcome rain. A party travelling ia the East once camped