MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 622, 20 March 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

One hundred ’and eighty-seven suici les were recorded in Paris! dining the past year, a notable [increase since 1784, when the capital was in a terrible state of anxiety because there had been four i» eighteen months. There "were also one hundred and twenty-one attempted suicides, making a gross total of three hundred and eight. Drowning appears to be the most favourite mode of putting on'end to this life, and numbers one hundred and one ; seventy-one persons blew their brains out, sixty-nine chose hanging, poison numbered seventy-nine, and forty were put down as various. The gigantic gooseberry and the toad in a lump of coal are well-known forms of literary “ padding” when news is scarce; but the San Francisco Bulletin finding the gooseberry pall upon its readers, and even the toad grew stale, has struck into a new line, capable of endless variations and ad - ditions : —“ On Thursday a notice appeared in the' dayliesj. that an owner was’wanted for a fine silk umbrella, then at the police station, and taken on the preceding day from a disreputable character. Before 11 o’clock on Thursday morning 3,7411mcn, 1,311 women, 55 boys and girls, and 14 Chinese]had applied for it.” Joaquin Mill, the Californian poet, ac cording to the New York Christian Union, loves his countrymen but little, and is consequently admired in proportion to his scorn. He was recently staying at Geneva, and as he himself confesses found the town too full of Americans. - .for his liking.- Determined to quitthe place, he drove to the nearest steamer, ■ and .went on board. “Whore do you wish to go?” asked the ticket clerk. “ Monsieur, take me to some place where there are no Americans,” replied the poet. The clerk looked at him for a moment, Then helplessly up ami down the lake, and away across to Mont Blanc, and finally .shook his head. Suddenly, however, a,new idea seemedto strike him, and he lifted up his eyes towardslleaven. Dr. Bright’s’ Piiosiiodyne ■ Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c., whose cases admit of a permanent cure by the new remedy—Phosphoilyne (Ozonic Oxygen)— which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers throughout the Colonics from xvbom Pamphlets, containing testimonials, may be obtained. Caution. —Be particular to ask for Dr. Bright’s Phospliodyne, as imitations are abroad ; and avoid purchasing single bottled ,the genuine article being sold in cases only. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— In cases of chronic indigestion, disordered disordered liver, and general debility, these Pills are wonderfully effective. They indeed have so general and powerful an effect on], the whole [system that they clear away or ward off most of the hills that flesh is heir to. They cleanse the bowels, purify the blood, correct hilliousuess, give tone to the ' stomach, excite a healthy appetite, produce sound sleep, and increased, energy to both mind and body. The admirablepropertics of these far-famed Pills are too highly appreciated to require lengthened encomium here, as they are resorted to by rich and] poor of every"nation. The cures they effect are not temporary or.imperfect, but are seen in a marvellous and most beneficial change throughout the entire body, which enables it with renovated powers,to resist the approach of all future attacks.