ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, 2 April 1889, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

The latest form of riding habit is one laced down the side. It is said to be safer in the event of a fall. This habit does not look quite. so perfect when the wearer dismounts.

Arsenic can now be taken with safety for skin ailments and for beautifying the complexion? Not in, the crude drug, of course ; that is simply an insiduous poison. But La Bourboule, the arsenical mineral water sold by Ingram and Boyle, 'of 52, arringdon street, contains the chemical in a form diluted and mixed in proper proportions with other chemicals by natdre herself. La Bourboule is obtained in the department of Puy- de-Dome, France at an altitude of nearly 3000 ft. The inhabitants of this district are famed for their clear complexion. La Bourboule is a tonic as well as an admirable skin preserver and revivifier.

A few day* ago a paragraph went the round of the Press stating that an officer who had been made a bankrupt for debts amounting to J6BOO had unexpectedly received from an old brother officer a cheque for the amount, and that the bankruptcy had consequently been annulled. The story, when told in full, ! looks (says the London correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph) •uore like romance than reality. The officer who was in trouble was a Major General, and the gentleman who has befriended him was also an officer. Tears ago the two officers were in the same regiment, and became friends. But it happened that on one occasion they quarrelled, and the estrangement lasted a considerable time. One Christmas; howover, the General received from the other geutleman an envelope containing a simple little Christmas card — a bird with au olive branch in its beak. The General kept this for a year, an 1 the following Christmas sent it in the same way back to # his friend. He also kept it till th6nexfc Christmas, and then once more returned it to the General. For thirty years this token of renewed frendship has been going backwards and forward, and last Chris, tm is it happened to be the General's turn to send it. In the worry caused by the turn his affairs had taken, he

■ 1 ;sorgot about the card, until two or three days after Christmas, it was come upon accidentally by his wiie. She put it in an envelope, but instead of {Sending it in the usual way en- . closed a note explaining why it had been 6verlooked, with a newspaper s cutting referring to the bankruptcy. ? Promptly there came in ieply a cheque for £1,000 with the intimation that as the sender had just come into a large fortune he was only too pleased to corns to his friends rescue, r and that in future he intended to \keep the olive branch as his most cherished possession. ___________ _._________———— »