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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2029, 11 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Spontaneous Combustion. Spontaneous combustion is said to bo an impossibility, but a phenomenon that at one time would be ascribed to that cause lias already been observed in the suburbs of Paris. In I*7l a fire occurred in a villa. The reparation was carried out under the direction of an architect, and the house has since been occupied by the same owner. One day he observed that the ceiling of the dining-room appeared as if some of the plaster was about to give way, and, as tbc bulging increased, he called in an architect, lie concluded that a beam must somehow have given away, and workmen were employed to make a" more close examination. It was then discovered that the wood was almost entirely consumed. Some spark may have remained, and during fifteen years the destruction must have gone on by inches, for no other hypothesis was brought forward than one of very slow combustion. The circumstance is so remarkable as to appear almost incredible, although liremen can relate stories of a similar kind.

Intoxication and Hydrophobia Pasteur says that men who haoitually u-e intoxicating spirits an: more difficult to cure it bitten by a mad dog than temperate mcu.