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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 224, 24 February 1874, Page 3

There arc, H is thought, about 8000 girk employed in America in the manufacture of paper collars, one-fourth of whom are under fifteen years of age. The youngest children bend the collars and perform many other simple details of the -work. The swiftness and skill attained by some of the older girls in counting and putting up the collars is truly astonishing. One whom I saw at work counts and boxe3 20,000 in a day of ten hours. Another, whose business it is to paste lining on the button-holes of the collars, three on each, lines 5000 as a day's work. The making of paper boxes employs at least 10,000 children.— Paper-Makers' Journal It seems to be possible for water drinkers to be intemperate as well as those who drink alcoholic liquors. From a Grevmoutk paper we learn that a miner has recently been admitted into the Eeeffcon Hospital "suffering from debility caused by excessive drinking of cold water, and exposure." Holloway\ Pills and Ointment.— The most effectual (Jure for Gout and Kheuraatism.—A frequent cause of these complaiufcs is the inflammatory state of the blood, which usually attends bad digestion, producing lassitude, anil great debility, thereby indicating the want, of a proper circulation of that fluid, and the impurity of the blood thus induced greatly aggravates thnse disorders. Holloway's Pills are of so purifying a nature, that a few doses taken in time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism, but whoever may have an attack of either should use Holloway's Ointment also, the searching properties of which, combined with the effects of the pills, ensure a certain cure. The Ointment should, at least twice a day, be thoroughly rubbed into the parts affected after they have been sufficiently fomented with warm water to open the pores.