THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12, 19 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

The Dunedin Evening Star says:— There is a rumor in the* city that a well-known chemist drew a good geegee in a* recent gallop in Australia, and won £IOOO from “Tattersalls.”

MILD DERBY satisfies the exacting smoker for it is not too heavy nor too light. Fragrant, cool and satisfying. Try a plug or a tin. y

An old lady, wishing to pay a compliment to the preaching of the new vicar, told him, “Really, sir, we didn’t know what sin was until you came to the parish!”

A witty writer remarks that when a man thinks himself a genius he lets his hair grow long, but when a woman thinks that she has a mission in life to fulfil she acts contrariwise —.she cuts her hair short.

There’s a power of consolation in a pipe of fragrant MILD DERBY PLUG or CUT. Cool, satisfying and soothing, it is the host of all tobaccos. Try it. V

The rhinoceros, although still numerous in some districts, particularly in the north, has undouhetedly decreased considerably of late years in the more accessible parts of the East African Protectorate, says a colonial report. A man had just tried on a pair of hoots at a shop in the Rue Royale, Brussels, when someone entered, istrnck him, and ran into the (street. The assailant was immediately followed by the indignant customer, who failed to return and pay for his purchase.

You will value the old briar as never before if vou fill it once with MILD DERBY PLUG or CUT. It has that rich “nutty” flavour so much appreciated by pipe smokers. x

“Go into the street and call on anyone in the King’s name to serve,” the coroner directed his officer when the jury at an inquest at Hackney (London) was one man short on March 29. One minute later a man named Dick Turpin filled the vacancy.

Some remarkable features were disclosed early this month in a case at Swansea, Wales, in which a young woman was granted a summons against her husband, by whom she had been deserted. The woman stated that when she was married her .husband was not earning more than 9s a week, and that- the last money she received from him was only 4d.

The man who likes medium strength tobacco should trv a pipe or two of MILD DERBY. It’s tip top.. In tin.; or plug. There’s nothing, to equal it. ■ x

The Welilngton Rugby League has oceived an unique offer of the ser-

vices of a local lady “goal-kicker.” In a communication the League has received it is suggested that the lady goal-kicker should give exhibitions prior to ahd.'during the interval of Saturday's matches. The female goaler, it is stated, would also he prepared to challenge any footballer to a competition, provided she is concedes 10yds. handicap. The League aas decided not to accept the offer it present.

H'cklard lady’s .recommendation 1 : “I have found Tcnking’s Linseed hmu Minn a splendid remedy and so delightfully soothing to a sore chest, and (idII recommend it to all ray friends.” Have you a hacking cough ? Nothing so sure to cure as I'orudng’s Linseed Emulcion. x

A South Hillend farmer who kept a grip upon his grass seed supply last seaeon until recently, when he placed it on the market, is now reaping the benefit financially (says the Southland Times). The prices ruling last season did not attract this particular tiller of the soil, and to-day his transaction has amounted to an advance of 9d per bushel and a fairly large monetary increase where close on 100 sacks of seed have been passed aver to the merchant. -

Photographs have often been taken with the aid of microscope through the eye of a water-bee is to say, the compound eye eonsi'siting of many facets, each of which acts as a lens and is capable of forming an image. The outer covering of the eye is mounted flat on a slip as an ordinmicrograph taken through it. The m icrograph taken through it. The fulfilment of the same task in the case of the eye of the hee is a much more difficult matter, owing to the hairy nature of the insect. Mr J. Watson, a member of the Solhorne Society, has taken a most interesting j series nf pictures of a human being, j each of which has been produced I through one of the facets of the eye of a hee.

New Jersey is contemplating the greatest suspension bridge in the world. It will connect New Jersey and New York, and will cost £BOO,OOO. It will he 8330 ft long, 17oft above the River Hudson, 20-1 ft wide, and the steel towers from which the cables will be lump; will be 000 ft in height. The central span of the bridge will be 2800 ft long. The bridge will have two tracks for subway trains, two for elevator! railways, and four for tramcars, with two Ilfift drivewavs and two 80ft side-walks. It will stand higher than any other' bridge in the world, and will be exceeded in length only by two others— the Manhattan Bridge over the Fast River, at New York, which is 9000 ft, and the Tay Bridge, in .Scotland, which is 10,779 ft. Its shorter length is dne to the fact that the land on both banks of the HmVon is at the point suggested high, necessitating comparatively short approaches. For children's hacking cough at night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, 1? Gd. 2s 6d.