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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 80, 26 August 1870, Page 3

The following cure for chapped-and frosted hands is one of " Tom's -Hints to .Miners "in the 4 Cromwell Argus Keep a tin of oatmeal in your Hut. In the morning wash your hands with oatmeal and brown Windsor. (Never use common yellow soap: it poisons the After you have wiped .your hands, pour a little dry oatmeal on to the hand, and shake hauds with yourself, so'to speak, that the oatmeal may ill up the chaps and cracks. It' the day is: frosty take a matchbox of dry oatmeal to your claim with you and occasionally through the day rub a little over the hands. To men who suffer with chapped hands, and who too -frequently torture themselves with hot sealing-wax, or scar their hands with cobbler's-wax, &c., &c., my recijpc will be invaluable. Lay in a stock of oatmeal, say 31bs., and three cakes of orown windsor. Persist in usin * oatmeal with your soap ' every time;- you wash your bauds, aud on frosty days rub your hands >vit i dry oataieaLoccasionully through the day; and however bad yout' hands may be, you will Hui them not only healed but invulnerable to frosts for tne remainder of tin* win* ter. - - A?* important resolution was recently monrod in tlia House of Representatives by tue lion. Mr. Trarevs, a well-known colonml barrister, proposing to allow " the ver lict- of a lu ijodty of t\vo-thirls of a jury to oe accept©.!." Messrs. M.iin, Fox, aa.l Vogel wero the only aociv© opponents', and the Wellington coiTenpon ieut ot cue ' Dciily Times' represents that- Mr. Main maie the best apeech'on V.iio occasion winch, ho liai ever done in the House—resulting iu ths motion boiy» negatived oa a. of 27 to 25.