Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 10 January 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An amusing scene was witnessed the other day on one of the mail boats running from Calais to Dover. The sea was rather rough. A young woman, pretty and rather nicely dressed, appeared to be suddenly taken very ill with sea sickness, groaned and screamed in apparent agony for some little time. At length a gentleman who appeared to be a stranger to her approached her, and asked whether she would like to take a lozenge, which he guaranteed would ease her of her pain. He had often tried it, he said, on people, and always with the most marvellous results. The young lady demurred a little at first, but finally accepted the offer. Never was cure so instananeous. Hardly had she swallowed the lozenge when the fair patient was sitting up all smiles and ordering ham sandwiches and bottled ale of the steward, b'ome passengers were . so struck with the incident that they enquired what was the remedy that had such a wonderful result, and the gentleman, who, as he said, was the agent for the sale of, the lozenges, disposed of a considerable number of boxes of them at lOf. a piece What was the surprise of the purchasers when they saw the young lady and her preserver go off arm in arm when the vessel reached Dover. The boxes were boxes of common jujubes. Mr Snelson says : — ln the live stock returns collected under authority for the information of the ' British Parliament by the Board of 1 Agriculture there appears amongst ! other statistics, etc., this : — Actual number of horses, 2,026,170 ; cattle, 11,843,688 ; sheep, 88,583,988 ; pigs. 4,272,764.