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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 395, 26 September 1884, Page 5

An illustration of the perfection to which lip-reading can be brought was given by a deaf girl before delegates to a recent English convention of the teachers of the deaf and dumb. By the movement of the speaker's lips outlined in shadow on a wall she was enabled to decipher the words uttered, Holloway's Ointment and Pills;— -Abcesses, Erysipelas, Piles.— -Unvarying success attends all who treat these diseases according to the simph- printed directions wrapped round each pot and box. They s\ re invaluable to the young and timid, whose bpshfulness' sometimes endangers life. Though apparently local, diseases of this nature are essentially blood diseases, but a little attention, moderate perseverance, and trifling expense will enable the most diffident to conduct any case to a happy issue without exposing secret infirmities to any one. The Ointment checks the local inflammation and alleviates tha throbbing pains. These directions also clearly point out when and how Holloway's Pills are to betaken, tbat their purifing and regulating .powers may assist by adjusting and strengthening the canstistn.ion. ' It is not a little singular to observe that whilst in England and Scotland, in spite of the increase of population, the year 1883 ; showed a small decline in the amount o_ spirits' consumed by the public as compared with 1882, Ireland not only kept units fondness for such strong drink, but actually increased by 146,000 gallons, in spite of its al, leged poverty and m spite of the gradual de. ' crease of it§ inhabitants, v ttal a *