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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1010, 1 August 1883, Page 4

There was a famous problem among the ancients which ran as follows :—“ When a man says, ‘1 lie,’ does he lie or does he not ? If he lies he speaks the truth ; if he speaks the truth he lies. ” Many were the books written upon this problem. OrySippus favored the world with no less thanisiz* and Philetus studied himself to death in his vain efforts to solve it. A f thrilling scene was recently enacted at Bideau Hall, whither a delegation of Iroquois chiefs had gone to complain to the Governor-General and Princess Louise of Encroachments upon their reservation • it Caughnawaga, near Montreal. Having transacted their business and been promised Redress, the Indians were asked to'trace their ancestry for the . Princess. When she learned that some of the delegation were descended from chiefs who had fought on the side of Great Britain in tjie wars with France and the American colonies, the Princess’s enthusiasm knew no bounds, and she shook her dusky visitors warmly by the hand. The cost of stopping a train of cars is being guessed at by experts just now in a very ' interesting way. The Railway Gdseffe reports a discussion on this subject, in which the conclusion is reached that the actual cost of stopping an ordinary -train,is, about 30 to 60 cents. An afhusing story is told of a trial where experts (testified that it costs two dollars to stop s train. They established the fact. Then the counsel on the other side produced the company’s time-table, with a filU list of all the stops, including stations,, took the total number of its calculated the., total stoppages of all the trains for one year, multiplying thfe result by two dollars —the experts’ estimate of cost—and demonstrated that the stoppages alone had, if the estimate was right, cost the company three times as .much as the entire amount of its operating .expenses for the year. This reduction: to a solid basis of fact upsets the two-dollar theory. A Glasgow boy had been summoned, as a witness in a case before the Municipal Court. His mether took great pains.in instructing him as to his behaviour, Eh d was particularly solicitous as to at once, without a moment’s hesitation, whatever he might be asked to. The bout of trial arrived, and Jock, in his “ Sunday claes,” set out for Court in spirits;. He had not been gone long, when he returned sobbing bitterly. The foßdWng colloquy ensued; “ What’s wrong wi’ ye, laddie 1” “ Nae muckle.” “Ay, ; bnt what’s wrong wi’ ye?” “Nae miiokle, I tell ye.” At length his mother succeeded in eliciting the truth. “ VVeel, they tuk flie into a big room wi’ a chiel wi-* white pow [head] sittin' his lane, an’ a lot o’ mair chiels sitiin’ below him, an’ the.ohielwi’the White pow axed me ma name. I ■» An’ I telt’ him * Jock McNab.’ An' he, telt’ me, ‘Jock McNab, baud up your han’ an’ sweir.’ Aii’ I put up ma ban’ an’ said, ‘Dr-—your een, sir;’ an : they put |ine oot.” —Glasgow Times. For. general debility and prostration Hop Bitters will do you wonders. Prove it by trial. See.— [Advt.] ... 6 Gorged Livers, Bilious conditions, constipiles, dyspepsia, headache, cured by “ Wells’ May Apple Pills.” 5d and is boxes at drtiggists. , Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, Australasia. 2 HbtliOWAY’s Pills,— Weary of Life Derangement of the liver is one of the most dangerous--of diseases, and the most prolific source of those melancholy forebodings which are worse than death itself. A few doses of thesC poted Pills act magically in dispelling low spirits, find repelling the covert attacks made oh thefidrves ; by excessive heat, impure atmospherei>! over-indulgence, or exhausting excitement. The most shattered constitution may derive benefit fiqm Holloway’s Pills, which will J dispfdered action, brace the nerves, increase the energy of the intellectual faculties, and icyive the falling memory. _By attentively 'Studying 1 the instructions for taking these Pills, and -mrolicitly' putting them in practice, the moskidesponding will soon feel confident tf a perfect resoveiy.— [Advf , v;;v -■.