MISCELLANEOUS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 45, 5 December 1913, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

■»«» BAYONET FOR A BEGGAR. ' A Gentry at B:-cst, en peeing i ati anger approach his -x;st in the darl fired twice m the air. The man c»n tinned his advance* and fie sentry rai: h'tn through the bodv with his bayonet. The man was then found to be an inOffensive beggar. SOON MY FORMER SELF. "About eight years ago I had brass ■poisoning, winch caused liver trouble." writes Mr W. A. Peez, Anuat, N.Z. "I could not sleep nor eat, and wasted to a shadow. After taking Chamberlain V /'Tablets for a short time my health was greatly improved, and 1 have had no return of my trouble. ! a:n now in good health, and reckon 1 owe it to Chamberlain 'g Tablets." Sold by G. W. Hutehins, chemist. SUICIDE BY LIFEBELT. A coppersmith of Cambrai (France) named Albert Bancourt, a prey to neurasthenia, committed suicide by tying a liftbelt to his feet and then* letting himself drop into a eanai. His head and chest were thus kept ■under water, while the rest of his body was supported in the air. BREATHING DIFFICULT. "It gives me pleasure to recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to my customers," writes Mrs Alice" Morrison, corner Carr and Fitzgerald streets Perth, W.A. '< My children, Horace and Gwen, were always getting bad colds. attended by difficult breathing, and 1 had many a sleepless night until 1 tried Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Xov,- if they get a slight cold 1 give them a dose of it, and the cold is no more." ISold by G. W. Hutchius, chemist. BETROTHAL OF "SNOW BIRD." Born further north than anv other wtnte child in the world. Miss Mario Peary, daughter of "Rear-Admiral Peary, the explorer, is engaged to bo married (says the 'New York World) to Mr Donald MacMillan, who was with Peary on his dash to the Pole. Miss Peary, whose mother was the first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition, received in addition to the name .Marie that of Ah-nigito, Eskimo for "Snow Bird. 1 ' IS A NEW WOMAN. "I was subject to colds on the chest," I says Mrs Cecilia Covne, Wellington street, East Perth, W.A., "and knowing how serious that class oi cold is tried every remedy that I thought would benefit me, but without results. I had begun to despair when i was recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedv. After taking a couple of bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I began to feel a new woman, and now would not be without it in the house." Sold by G. W. Hutchius, chemist.

IKING ALFONSO'S HOMAGE. When King Alfonso and President Fomcare were returning by train from loledo to Madrid in October last theKmg noticed a sword that Governor Lyautey, the French military Governor of Morocco, was wearing. "Surely that is a sword with a (history, general," he said. "It is not of 'modern design." . "It belonged to mv grandfather, sire, ' replied General Lyautey. "He was an officer in the army of Napoleon I." The general drew his sword and handed it to the King, who read out slowly the names of the great battles engraved on the blade and kissed the blade gravely. He then handed back the sword to General Lyautey, who, deeply touched by the graceful act, saluted and returned it to its scabbard. • GOT VERY WEAK. v "My boy Jack was very bad with •diarrhoea," writes Mrs M. Lee, Forbes, N.S.W. "For quite a fortnight he was ill, and got very weak. My husband bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy, and to our surprise one dose completely cured him." Sold by G. W. Hutchius," chemist. "LITTLE JIM'S" COTTAGE. The cottage "old and mean'.' which was described in the plaintive poem •'Little Jim,'' attributed variously to Edward Farmer and "Anon.," has been sold by auction at Atherstone, in Warwickshire, for £5-5. Standing on land bought recently by the county council for allotments and .small holdings the thatched building had been condemned as unfit for habitation. The poem be-; gins: The cottage was a thatched' one, The outside old and mean; Yet everything within that cot Wa« wondrous neat and clean. I The night was dark and stormy, The wind was howling wild. And a patient mother watch'd'' Beside the deathbed of her child.