Page 2 Advertisements Column 2

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 392, 12 November 1903, Page 2

MEDICAL INCOMES. The incomes made by famous physicians are always a matter of interest. The «Family Doctor' give 3 a list of English physicians of note, most of them more than a quarter of a century dead, whose incomes were considerably above ,£IO,OOO a year. Most of them made vary little money during the early part of their careers. It was Osier who said that during the first tea years a practitioner in a large city could scarcely expeot to obtain more than bread and water, with perhapß bread and butter during the second ten years, and the cakes and ale later.

The Few of Draughts —The dread of the draught amounts in a large proportion of men and women to a monomania, and the slightest snspioion thereof suffices to render them wild with terror. If the persons who know by experience that a draught means a cold would only try the experiment, commencing in favourable weather, of throwing open wide their windows to the air by night as well aa by day, they would soon gain an immunity to cold which would surprise and delight them. ' : Patient: 'l'm much better to-day. doctor. I really feel as if I could stand almost anything.' Dcctor: ' Glad Jg hear it. Permit me to present my bill. _- Patient has.a xelapsfi*

What is declared to be a diamond fallen from the sky was last month -placed on exhibition in the American Museum o£ Natural History. It is a diamond em. bedded in a 40 lb. metorite, which was discovered in Arizona. Tests; proved the substance to be a genuine diamond, and iriolite and daubreelite, which proved that its origin was not terrestrial, were both f onnd in the iron whioh eacaaed the