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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 174, 9 December 1876, Page 2

The following is an infallible method of discovering the day of the week on which a given day of the month any number of years previous occurred. To the number representing your age at your next birthday add one-fourth for leap years ; this amount divide by 7, and the remainder counted back from the day of the week on which your birthday falls during the present year will give the day of the week on which you wore born. For instance, on your next birthday you will be 24 years old. This divided by four, and the quotient 6, added to 24, gives 30, (lie amount, which divided by 7, the number of days hi the week, gives 4 weeks and the remainder of two days. Now, if your birthday in 187G comes on Monday, count hack (wo days, and you have the day on which you were horn, Saturday. The following appears in a late munhnof the British Medical Journal under the heading “Specific against Hvd.uphohia” Dr Gray valla of Krivo Onero, J'edolia, for wlmse tru d worthiness P;o----fessor Gnbier, of Paris, vouches, declares that after a series of trie's, which he describes at length, ho his found that after having had opportunities of treating at least one hundred cases of mm bitten by rabid dogs with th 1 z ritliiu n spinosmn he has nev-r in any bn" of these cases, failed to ward off hydrophobia. He gives some startling examples. For an adult, the dose is sixty centigrammes of the dry powder, .repeated three lira -s a day and continued during six weeks. Children under 12 take half that quantity. The dose for animals is much larger. A herd of thirty oxen had been bitten by a mad wolf. He gave three ounces of the powder with bran daily to each of the animals ; none of them suffered from the disease. These are examples of which Dr. Gray valla says he has a hundred others. I feel satisfied (writes the “ Intelligent Vagrant”) that the Rev. Mr Sma'ley was not thinking of me when he talked about, newspaper writers, who only mentioned tlie pulpit in order to point impious puns and profane jokes. My object is always to assist rather than retard the spread of practical religion, and it is with this in view that I mention a circumstance which occurred here last week and which is a pleasing instance of conversion. Mr and Mrs Oldstick had not gone to church for many a long year, when suddenly Mr Oldstick won a sweep of £25 on the Melbourne Cup. Meeting him in the street two days afterwards, and congratulating him with a certainty of being asked to refresh myself at his expense, he accepted my congratulations, and said that he had bought Mrs Oldstick a prayerbook and a hymn book, and had taken sittings at church, where he purposed regular attendance in future. „Nowthere is, neither wit nor fun nor pun in the above, and if there be impiety or profanity in it, all I can say is that the same., may arise from .the fact that barring, names, the story is simply true. ; Quoth “ Atticus ” in the Melbourne Leader : —“ A pound sweep was got up on the Cup race by some commercial gentlemen two or three weeks ago, with 225 members—£lso to go to the first horse, £SO to the second, and £25 to the third. One of the sweepers, who fortunately for himself, :was a regular church-goer, drew Timothy ; and several of the other members who knew more of horses, prat least the state of the betting market, tried to tempt him in sums from £1 to £5 do sell his chance. But on Sunday week he was startled by hearing the text of a sermon given out, exhorting Timothy to hold fast, which sounded to him as if the words were “Hold fast to Timothy,” while he fancied that the eyes of the minister under whom he sat were fixed straight on him, and that' the words . were addressed personally to himself. Looking at this as something in the light of a miraculous tip, he 'declined every offer, the event justified his faith. He held fast to Timothy, and had the •satisfaction of receiving on Tuesday evening a cheque for £25. But after such direct monition from the pulpit, he was rather disappointed at his horse not coming in first,” rt; ; ~ ~, ~