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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 21 February 1879, Page 4

A New Reading.— He said he rather guessed he knew how to sail a boat— but the gentle zephyrs that kiss the wavelets o'er his watery grave mournfully whisper : "He luffed not wisely." — Puck. It is no use to tell a woman "to trust in Providence and keep her powder dry." She can't do it when the themometer is in the nineties, or when her blood gets warmed up in a heated ball-room. At a fancy dress ball in Paris recently, a lady was seen iv a low-bodied dress of green gauze. She was politely asked by a gentleman what she personated. " The sea, Monsieur." "At low tide then Madame." The lady blushed and gentleman smiled. The electric bell at the Central Fire Brigade station, communicating with the Government Buildings, gave a loud and long alarm this morning. The hose was got out with expedition, but no fire could be discovered. This is the third occasion within a few weeks on which the electric bell has rung without visable agency. "Are yon the saleswoman of whom I bought this handkerchief yesterday?" asked a purchaser as one of the dry goods stores. " I am the saleslady who served you, madam," responded the reduced Empress in banged hair, long watch chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter. " Well," said the customer, " I will take a dozen more, and as I wish to get them to my wash lady at once, I will get you to send them to my carriage around the corner. Mr coachgentlemun cannot get to the door just now for the ash-gentleman.— Boston Com. Bulletin. Stout elderly man, on Margate jetty, to young and gentlemanly stranger who has just saved the former's wife from drowning : " Sir, I wish to show you my gratitude ; but. as you won't accept money, I will make you a present of a piece of good advice. Never eat sausages in summer. I knows what they're made of— l'm a pork butcher." The signs of the times are ominous, and terrifying to contemplate, the nations of the earth are on the watchtower, and all prophetic of a coming storm. It behoves every sensible person to be on the alert, for the dav of action is fast approaching— Health and strength will be the great desideratum. These can both be procured and then maintained .by the timely use of " Ghollah's Great Indian Clues." They are the fines improvers of the constitution ever yet known in the shape of medicine.

— Flohilinb!— For the Teeth and Breath,— A lew drops of the liquid "Floriiine" sprinkled on a wet tooth-brush produce a pleasant lather, which thoroughly clean tea ihe teeth from all parasites and impuitries harders the gums, prevents tartar, stops decay, 'gives to the teeth a peculiar pearly whiteness, and a delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes all unpleasent odour arising from decayed teeth or t<bacc< smoke. " Ths Fragrant Floriline." being composed in pert of honey and sweet herbs, is delicie us to the taste, and the greatest toilet discovery of the age. Sold everywhere at 2s. 6d. Prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493 Oxford-street, London. Advice to Mothehs !— Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting tteth ? Go at once to a Cliemisfc. nnd get abrttle of Mrs Winslow'a frothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor futrerer mmediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to taste. It produces natural quist sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakeß "as ; bright as a button. It soothes the child, is siMt<Hs tbe gums, allays all pair, relieves wind, regulates tbe bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysenery and diarrhoea, wheih r arising frcm teething or other causfe. fold everywhere at Is. IJd t per b.ttie Mauufactory 493, Oxford-strtet, London. Valuable Discovert for the ttAiß.—lf your Hair is turning grey or white, or tailing eff use " The Mexican Hair Renewer," lor it will positively restore in every case Grey or White hair to its original colour, without having tf:e disagreeable smell of most 'Restoreis ' It makes the hair charmingly beautiful, as well as promoting the growth cf the hair on brld spots where the gland are not decayed. Ask your nearest chemist for " The Mexican Hair Renewer," prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493, Oxford-street, London, and sold everywhere at 3». 6d. per bottle.