GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2208, 4 June 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

YOUTH IX THE NEW MINISTRY. A marked feature of the now British .Mini.try is the predominance' of comparative'youth( writes Mr 11. W. I.nev), The Premier himself is only nil— a mere chicken compared with illustrious predecessors of recent date. The only members who have passed, the a•'<''of Hired score years and ten are choired in the House of .holds. Mr Morley boms' seventy and Sir Henry Howler seventy-eight, have gone to join Lord Ifipon, who has reached the ago of full four score. Next to these are Lord Carrington (sixty-live) and the Lord Chancellor (sixtv-two). “Too old at sixty’’ is with'one exception the rule of members of the Ministrv still in the Commons. The exception is Mr. Buchanan. But lie escapes because lie does not look bis age (sixty-two), and preserves a retiring attitude. Mr Birrell is getting on, being fifty-ohrlit. Tin- average age 0 f Cabinet Ministers is Hie mid-forties, the very prime of physical and intellectual life. The Foreign Secretary is forty-six. Mr Lloyd-George. ,Mr MaeKetina, and. Mila V. Harconrt, are forty-live. The new Minister of Education .is thirtyeight, whilst Winston- Churchill, the youngest Cabinet Minister, though not the least influential, is thirtyfour. This is a strong team to drive. ORIGIN~OF DISEASE. Nine-tenths of the principal diseases which to-day afflict tho human raco have their rise in a common, ordinary, little cold. T’lio history of most cases of disease of this character is very much tho sumo. Tho cold comes, and is neglected. It moves down from nose to throat,from throat to bronchial tubes and lungs, and when it doesn’t end there, in consumption. Its after effects aro sure to weaken tho kidneys, liver, and heart. This is all accepted, and taught in tho medical schools of today. It is well for you to remember it.' An equally important fact to remember is that tho proper and only scientific treatment for a cold in any stage is Dr. Sheldon’s New Discovery for Coughs, Colds, and Consumption. This medicino will euro any kind of a cold or cough, and will prevent all tho dangerous after effects of lung and Throat Disoases. It is guaranteed to cure. Try it. Price, Is 6d and 3s. Obtainable at A. W. J. Mann’s, chemist, agent. A BE COR I) OF FRACTURES. Air A. Hciler, of Gilgandra, who hid his leg fractured last Sunday while boxing, has-a unique record for accidents (says the “Sydney Morning Herald”), flo is but twenty-five years of age, and has already experienced nineteen breakages, u hen nine months old he broko his wrist; at two years, ruptured the muscles of his thigh, and broke his collarbone, and h efiuctured his eollar-bouo again when three years old; at four years he dislocated his shoulder, and fractured his collar-bone; for each twelve months, when five, six, and seven, ho fractured his collar-bone; also rupturing the muscles of the thigh; liis shin was fractured at ten, his instep at eleven, and at thirteen lie received a sprained ankle; at fifteen lie had the cup knocked off an elbow, a similar accident happening again at sixteen; and at nineteen his instep was again broken. Both of his jaws wore broken at twenty-three, and within the last six months ho has had both legs broken. For Children’s Hacking Couglit at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Is Gd and 2s P A