General Intelliganee.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 373, 2 July 1903, Page 5

General Intelliganee.

Chicago not long ago since held a "orying contest." Foarteen competitors did the weeping, before two Hundred spectators. Miss Green, a pretty branatto, won with 31 tears is *!».■£■*■». Mn Webb being second wwn Xs tears*

By skipping 110 times in ten minntes, Ethel Jonas, a aeven-year-old g»ri, won the title of champion roneJimper at Pottsville, Pennsylvania Immediately after performing the feat *he fell dead.

A a?,4 p on fe»rf«l thing, AH helpless on the deep, No vessel sear her help to bring, Whilst names about her leap ; A cough or cold is bad enough, Though we can help procure, And never fail to drive them off! With— Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. One of the saddest experiences q* the parliamentary trip fell to $ r Mason alone, when he visited the leper station at Penhryn (says Danedin "Star.' There are ten of these social outcasts marooned upon the naroowrim of this far-away tropical island, there to.remain till the savage seourge has eaten the last remnant of vitality from their wasted frames, They are of all ages down to a little girl of ten, whose fate is as eternally inevitable as that of those much further gone in the cruel stage of the disease. Year in and year out they trear the long days from morn to night unvisited and nncheered, save at long intervals. Flour and biscuits are sent for their use by the Government, and for the rest there is fruit and fish in plenty to sustain the burden of an unloved life. But there is an eleventh soul upon the Island—a mother whose 19 years old son lies dying by slow degrees, and who chose the awful isolation of the leper settlement for life rather than desert her boy in his affliction. Day after day she sits fanning the flies from the poor stricken temple of his body, with that neverending patience and love that are only a mother's. Her task is not for long now, says the doctor, but martyrdom goes on until she, too, lays down for ever the burden of life. Chamberiain's Cough Remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of these diseases over a large part of the civilised world t The most flattering testimonials have been received, giving accounts of its good works; of the aggravating and persistent coughs it has cured ; of severe eolds that have yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive use of it for whooping cough, has shows that it robs that disease of all dangerous results, It is especially prized by mothers be* cause it contains nothing injurious and there is not the least danger in giving it, even to babies. It alwaya cures and cures quickly. W Theyers and Sons sell it.