MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1176, 10 May 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A very accurate physician sent in a certificate of death the other day with his name signed in the space reserved for ‘ cause of death.’ A debating club lately discussed the question, ‘ Whether a rooster’s knowledge of daybreak is the result of observation or instinct.’ Catarrh of the Bladder, stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar complaints, cured by ‘ Buchu-paiba.’ New Zealand Drug Co., General Agents. • Yes, Miss Frost, I always wear gloves at night; they make one’s hands so soft.’ Miss Frost —‘ Ah !do you sleep with your hat on V Ladies are like watches—pretty enough to look at ; sweet faces and delicate hands, but somewhat difficult to ‘ regulate’ after they are set a-going. _ Flies and Bugs, beetles,insects, roadies, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jackrabbits, cleared out by ‘ Rough on Bats.’ New Zealand Drug Co., General Agents. A convict, sent to prison, was asked what trade he preferred. He said that if it was all the same to them he preferred to bo a traveller. Aristocrat, Pauper, Debtor. The aristocrat is supported by h's ancestors, the pauper by his contemporaries, and the debtor by posterity. Wells’ ‘Bough on Corns.’— Adc for Wells’ Rough on Corns. Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. New Zealand Drug Co., General Agents. 8 ‘I have no patience with a man who can’t remember a thing any longer than it’s being told him,’ exclaimed Jones, impatiently. ‘Now, I can carry a thing in my mind for a month if need be.’ A careless boy swallowed a revolver cartridge the other day, and his mother dosen’t dare to ‘ wallop’ him for fear he’ll go off. Despairing Bankers.— The number of suicides among the brightest and most capable of business men, bankers and others, will be reduced to a happy minimum as soon as the specific virtues of Hop Bitters are known. As all men who work with their brains and neglect to rake the needed exercise, the food taken does not nourish ; and dangerous debility, physical and mortal, ensue. Read Advt. Why he is Silent.—' Charley,’ said Mrs Younghuaband, ' why is it you never talk with me as you did before we were married? 1 notice that you talk‘fast enough with other women.’ ‘Dearest,’ replied Charley, without taking his eyas offhis newspaper, ‘don’t you know that people talk to conceal their thoughts? I have nothing to conceal from you. lore.’ In another moment he was deep in the stock market reports, while something that sounded very much like humbug trembled on the lips of Mrs Younghusband as she slowly left the room. Holloway’s Pills.— The stomach and its troubles cause more discomfort and bring more unhappiness than is commonly supposed. The thousand ilia that settle there may he prevented or dislodged by the judicious use of these purifying Pills, which act as a sure, gentle anti-acid aperient, without annoying the nerves of the most susceptible, or irritating the most delicate organisation; Holloway’s Pills will bestow comfort and confer relief on every headachy, dyspeptic and sickly sufferer, whose tortures make him a burden to himself and a bugbear to bis friends. These Pills have long h«en the popular remedy for a weaE stomach, for a disordered liver, or a paralysed digestion, which yield without difficulty to their regulating, purifying, and tonic qualities. One littlfe favor.—He had never told his love, their acquaintance had been a very short one, and whin suddenly he had placed Ms arms around her neck, and imprinted a kiss upon her rosebud mouth she was naturally startled. ‘Sir,’she said, this is insufferable.’ ‘Forgive me! ho cried,’ ‘ 1 was made to act thus, I beseech you, pardon me !’ ‘ No, I can never forgive you, never. Yon have forfeited my*friendship. Yon must leave me at once and for ever.’ Vainly he pleadedJ she was obdurate. So glaring an offenco could not be condoned. And so he said he would go. His whole lif-a would bo embittered, "for be felt that her image could never be effaced from his heart. ‘ 1 will go,’ l>e said sadly, ‘but before I leave there is one boon that 1 would ask. I feel I am not unreasonable in desiring and expecting that you will grant this one little final favor.’ ‘What js it?’ she asked gently, touched by his emotion. ‘ Won’t you please take your arm from around my neck.’