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Southland Times, Issue 1151, 22 October 1869, Page 3

A New American Life-Saving Appabatus. — An adventurous inventor of some new life-saving apparatus is making arrangements to test his machine very practically. He proposed to he dropped in mid-channel, Between England and France, from the deck of a sailing vessel or steamer, and to be left to his own resources for saving himself, and even victualling himself, until some passing ship comes along. Of course he hails from America, and wonderful tales are told of what has been dine in that country with the invention. A lady received a visit from her doctor. After deluging him with words, she finally asked, " Wlmij atu Ito ttof" " rrocamg but rest." " But my tongue, doctor — just look at my tongue ?" " Well, well, your tongue needs rest most of all." Mrs Arabella Mansfield, a young woman of twenty-four years of age, has been admitted to the bar of lowa. "How many children have I?" asked a woman of a spirit-rapper. " Four." — " And how many have I?" asked her husband. " Two," was the astonishing reply. Mistake somewhere. The following advertisement of an Eating House is from a Melbourne paper: — ''The Physical Basis of Life. Huxley's celebrated essay on this subject is lectured on daily by , who has made the matter a life study. It is also illustrated daily at his tables, where the * physical basis' can be laid in from 11 till 3, in the best cooked and most varied hot luncheon in the city. Some choice Tasmanian meat, lately arrived, will be found out of the common, with fish that will do till the salmon come — and even afterwards." There are 5429 Smiths who receive dividends on various sums in the public stocks. 2478 Browns are also among the distinguished quarter of a million, and 2190 bear the name of Jones. We say their dividends are for " various sums." In Consols alone there are not fewer than 1140 accounts on which the half-yearly dividend is less than 6s. There are 77 accounts on which the dividend does not ' exceed Is, and 25 on which it is Id. In i defence of twopenny fundholders it is right to explain that some of these ! accounts are remanets, no longer claimed of larger sums, and the dividends find their way eventually into the " unclaimed dividend" account of the Government. In other cases they accumulate uutil they form a sum worth applying for. Hollowat's Phis. — Nothing preserves the health so well asan ccasional alterative in the changes of weather, or when the nerves are unstrung. These Pill* act admirably on the stomach, liver, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood that they are most efficient in warding off derangements of the stomach, fever, diarrheas, dysentery, and other maladies, and giving tone and energy to debilitated constitutions. All who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health, cannot do better than trust to Holloway's Pills, which cool, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pills j are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means fail. Thej j are the female's best friend. Goldsmith's Wobk. — The progress of fine art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond Street, and of the City team Factory, 58 and 60, Ladgate Hill. It is enriched and embellished with designs (by Italian, French, ond English artistes) of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or wedding, birthday, or other presents, with their prices. Mr Benson (who holds the appointment to H.3.H. the Prince of Wales) has also published a very interesting pamphlet on the rise and progress of "vatch and clock-making. These pamphlets are sent post free for two stamps each, and they cannot be too strongly recommended to those comtemplating a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require, and* haye it forwarded with perfect tafetgr.