MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1141, 19 February 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A lady teacher in a Sunday school had occasion to illustrate a lesson on faith by the story of a child who was told by his father to drop from an elevated place into his arms. The father could not be seen by the child, yet, when commanded, it diopped. Upon the teacher asking her class what was shown by this story, a bright little fellow immediately replied, 1 It showed that he had a lot o’ pluck.’ Dumley was making an evening call, and a nice little boy of the family had been allowed to stay up a little later than usual. ‘Ma.’he said, during a lull in the conversation, 1 can whisky talk V ‘ Certainly not,’ said ma. 1 What put that absurd notion into your head V ‘ Well,’ he replied, ‘ I heard vou say to pa that whisky was telling on Mr Dumley, and I warned to know what it said.’ Don’t Die in the House. — ‘ Rough on Rats’ clears out raia, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers. New Zealand Drug Go., General Agents. _ 1 A learned professor in America has felt it his duty to consider the feasibility of a railroad In the sun in its financial aspects, and he finds that the scheme could not be made to pay. ‘Take a railroad Horn the earth to the snn, with a train running 40 miles an hour, without stops, and it would occupy about 265 years to complete the journey. The fare at u penny a mile would be 372,009d015.’ “ German Syrup.” —No other medicine in the world was ever given sm-h a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed /ree of charge by Druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia, and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result has be°n that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggists and ask what they know about it. Sample Buttles 6d. Regular size 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any case. 1

An old lady from the country recently visited the metropolis, and attending the theatre one night complained in one of the scenes that the light was too dim to see the acting properly. ‘ Won’t you try this glass V asked a gentlemen next to her, handing her his lorgnette. Hastily covering the suspicious looking object with her handkerchief, she placed it to her lips, took a long pull, and then handed it back in great disgust, saying, ‘ Why, there ain’t a drop in it!’ Holloway’s Ointment and Pills.— During every break of wintry weather exertions should be made by the afflicted to recover health before unremitting cold and trying storms set in. Throat ailments, coughs, whevzings, asthmatical affections, shortness of breath, morning nausea, and accumulations of phlegm can readily be removed by rubbing this fin Q derivative Ointment twice a day upon the chest and neck. Holloway’s treatment is strongly recommended with the view of giving immediate ease, preventing prospective danger, and effecting permanent relief. These all-important ends bis Ointment and Pills can accomplish, and will surely prevent insidious diseases from fastening on the constitution, to display themselves afterwards in thsse disastrous forms that will probably embitter life till death itself is almost prayed for.