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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 11

“ Do you want to know how to smote t and smoke, and yet keep t.ho room clear i of all the fumes and odours of tobacco! < How to smoke in the dining-room, the . drawing-room, your wife’s bedroom, without leaving a single tobacco cloud or a single tobacco smell in the air? Well, 111 tell you.” Here the salesman took down a small ring of platinum. “ All you have to do,” he said, “ is to set this ring over a lamp and let it get red hot. Red hot, it will consume the smoke of a dozen cigars, keeping the air quite clear and 1 sweet. With one of these rings in use' there is no ground for forbidding a man to smoke any where. It has long been known that platinum consumes tobacco smoke. 1 wonder that no one everj thought of the wonderful platinum smoke absorbing ring before? ” , 11 would be interesting to know if any i part of the world beats Ireland in the average length of life of its inhabitants. ■ It is shown in the census of 1905 that on j an average the people of that island live to the age of fil.B years, which fa very nearly double the mean duration of human life as it was computed a generation ago. Sweden and Norway are regarded as very healthful countries, but Iceland takes the palm in longevity, the mean duration of life in Sweden being 50.02 years and in Norway 49.94 years. Some of Iclennd’s earthquakes arc nerveracking, but on the whole the lives of most of its simple ami industrious inhabitants slip along with fe.v incidents that unduly stimulate or depress the pulse. The little island enjoys many of the advantages of civilisation and avoids most of its drawbacks. —“ Science Siftings.”