MISCELLANEOUS.
A white (Jjiiliii id on vie* at the R >yal Aquarium at \V«.*»t ninistjr, England.
The laughing plant grows in China, and is si« called Ixvaase ils seeds pro* •luce effects like those produced by laughing gas. Th • flowers are of ft bright yellow, un I the seed pods are soft and woolly, whiie the seeds resemble small •> :i. k 'leans, and only two or three grow in a pod The natives— Chinese — dry ami pulveriso them, and the p>wder, if taken ia hiii ill doses makes the so'»erest person I.ehave lik*' a rircn? clown or a madman, for he will sing, dance and laugh most »ioist«Tousiy, and cut tbo most f.itttiisti.'' capers, and l>e in an uprnirioti'lv ridiculous condition f r about an hour. When t'u; excitemm t ct-asfs the exhausted exhibitor of these antics fitlis asl» ej», v»d when he awakes he has not th>' slightest remembrance of his frisky doings.
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Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 11 June 1886, Page 2
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154MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1716, 11 June 1886, Page 2
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