ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 453, 23 November 1880, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from our Exchanges.)

A Detroit physician asserts that for a hot weather drink nothing equals buttermilk, and for the laborer is tho best known. It supports the sj-stem, and even in fever will cool the stomach admirably. It will cure dysentery more quickly than any other remedy known. The physician also states that, if drunk moderately, and taken in the early stages of the complaint, it will certainly cure any case of dysentery

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How smart American showmen are to innke a full house the following example will pro'ye :— A circus proprietor informs the public that his unrivalled performing elephant will, on its own hem-fit night.

gave a reci a' of popular music on a splendid Braid piano. 7'he house of course itcrowded, everybody being anxious to hoar the new virtuoso. Towards the end of the'performance a beautiful new piano is hroKght into the centre of the arena. The elephant, after saluting the audience in its usual graceful manner, advances to tbe piano, lifts with some difficulty one foot, places it on Ihe keys, but all on a sudden howls fearfully, frightening not a little the expectant audience. The elephant's master approaches, and examines anxiously its eyes.and throat in order to discover the cause of this emotion. Having made a very careful examination he orders the virtuoso to retire, and announces to the greatly astonished audience that he regrets that theielephant cannot play on the piano, being overcome by emotion on having recognised in the keys the tusks of his own poor mother !

Says a Timaru Paper :—Here is a fact worth knowing. A member of the Btaff of this journal had the luck to upset a kettle of boiling water over one of his hands. The -accident would probably have disabled him for a week or a fortnight, but it occurred to him that some years ago he saw a similar feat performed during a scientific lecture, by Professor Huxley, in the Polytechnic, London. The next moment ho applied the Professor's remedy, and to "his surprise the pain almost instantaneously disappeared and instead of the skin dropping off,his hand acquired its normal appearance. The remedy is a simple one, namely a strong solution of washing soda. Jut burns and scalds it is simply infallible, and as its cost is nominal we would recommend every family to have a bottle .of it ready prepared for cases of accident or emergency.