Just because, this is the honeysuckle vine. Potentially invasive, so clearly it's tenacious enough to have survived neglect and reseeded itself if needed.
Thallium is, like arsenic, colorless and water soluble and all those good things - and as I was comparing the two, turns out thallium was one of 743902 things used to treat the symptoms of tuberculosis. Which seems preeeeetty convenient to me. ;) While it caused hair loss with lower doses - thus, its use as a depilatory for awhile - higher doses killed you before that was evident. Discovered in mid-1800s, so a fairly new and spiffy thing. Unfortunately for me, it appears there's now a fancy perfume called Thallium, so finding a good reference image for an antique one wasn't something I could do quickly. (As it was, I went down a research rabbit hole, which I'm not supposed to be doing during November. argl.)
Rat poison, though, led to much better search results, woohoo! Page o' antique poison bottles.
Warned y'all there was going to be Sigur Rós this year, haa. Lyrics and a (probably very loose, definitely unofficial) translation for "Kolniður" here. Google Translate actually failed to sort the title for me, so I'm guessing it's not a common (or real?) word. Roughly, "endless dark" or something to that affect. "Kolniður og myrkur úti, en í mér, ríkir óveður" something like "Endless dark or darkness outside, but for me, there is a storm" (From the two or three words I recognize, that seems reasonable.)
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