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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 109, 7 March 1891, Page 4

A travelling show recently exhibited a Knake's -km, to which the following interest ng 1«" 'm j was attiched i " Skin of the rVrpenl that temi ted Eve in the -Gir'den of Eden It was killed by Idam Ihe day after the Fill Vdnn hit it with -a e/al)-, the (races of whicfi are still left* 'J his' skin was pirt of fhe mht*utince of '-.^dam, and was p.eserved in his family m Asia. The genuineness is attested b} -doctors of divinity, whose seals are at--tafehebV." Marriages between lep°rs are allowed in the 1 island near Maiacaiho. whicii ~Berves as the leper colony of Veneaueli, State sanction for these marr a^es was -{riven after much discussion many \ears ago, in 'the belief that there cnuld be no -offspring from such unions. For a long « time this theory remained uneontradicted by experience ; but in the last 14 or 15 years it appears that there have been two berths among the lepers. Neither child lias shdwnany symptom of the dreadful malady of the parents; and recently, _ according to the United St tes Consul in Tenezuela^one^of these children, havm*: '3iyed to the age of 14 in the lepV lslind, lias been allowed to leave and enter see on the cprtific ite of a competent Tjoard of inspectors that he is perfectly liealthy._ i- Ceitainly the best medicine known m -^SANDEE^arid Sons' EucaliPti Extbact. '""Test its eminenfly poweiful effiecs in ' Rough's, cold^, influenza , the relief is hi* ' JBthntaneous. ~ln Serious cases, and jc/^""ci,Bents of all kinds,,, be they wound-. burns, ..scaldmgs, bruises, sprain , it is r "tiie safest remedy— no swelling — no in* % -tarnation. t Like surprising effects pro* diiced in croup, diphtheria, bronchus, 'in'fl immationof the lungs, swelling, &c ; -diarrhoea, dvsentry,, diseases of the Kids neys j.arid urinary organs In use at hospitals and medical clinics ill over the « globe; patronised by His Majesty t lie King of,ltoly ; crownea with mcd il nnd ' 'diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in tin appioved '<r«y'ticle. and reiert all others — Advt " [Received by cheque," is a qualified ""form of acknowledgement of jMjment "flinch most people i'e^ard aslmmless, but it appeals, from a decision of Mi lerr, in the City of London Court, th it -danger may lm k in these simple words. A city firm had f^warded a receipt to s« customer in this form., but it haopened ~ihe cheque was drawn by an aeent in i ot was returned dishonouied Unier =these circuuist inces the question was -whetlier the firm Yind a. rlirht to <sii<> their .^ustomer. The Judge decided thit they vJiad no lemedy but that of suing the Wgent on his dishonoured cheque in ■vu.n it was .urged, that the goods had been supplied to the customer and not to the a^ent, "If ihe plaintiffs," said Mr Commissioner Kerr. ' chose to accept a piece^of paper, 1 cannot help it " The obvious moral is that those who accept a cheque drawD by an agent will do well towuuhold the receipt till the cheque is cleared