MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1291, 17 January 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The New Zealand Timber Company, Auckland, believing their mill was set fire to, offer a reward of £IOO for the discovery of the incendiary. Flies and Boob, beetle*, insects, roaches, ant*, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chip* munks, cleared out by “ Bough on Bats." Kempthornc, Prosser and do., Agents, Christchurch. 8 The Stewards of the Auckland Racing Club, after considering (he protest by Pilbrow, the owner of Clarence, and the claims of Maxwell the owner of Sunray, re the steeplechaise decided that neither had any claim, but tendered a cheque for £IOO to each. ’ Bough oh Cobhs." Ask fur Wei *' " Rough on o«rns.” Quick reli- f, complete, pmnanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions Kempthorne, Prosser and Go,, Agents, Christchurch, 3 A Buffalo colored clergyman has given notice to his congregation that he wants more money and less shouting in the future. " Yes,” said the wise hotel-keeper, “ we only charge half-rates for children. We put lots of pies and doughnuts before them, and the little deers don’t eat more than one meal out of three. I have no smypathy with a man who tries to keep children out of hie house.” Oatabbh ob thb Bladder—Slinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by “Buchu-paiba." Druggist*. Kempihone Prosser and Co., Ageuit, Ohriftchuich 3 “ Is Mr McJessup at home ?” inquired a man of the servant who bad answered the bell. "Aye, sir!” replied the maid, he is dead, and was buried day before yesterday.” “ Dead, is he—er—well, then I won’t disturq him.” All Right Then. Lady (engaging laundress and nervous about small-pox) 11 1 hope you are very careful about infection.” Laundress—“ Lor, mum, we never uses none of it. We al ways washes the clothes with our’andsl” Cubed of Dminkiho.—A young friend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liqour, that had so prostrated his *yit*m that be was unable to do any business. He was entirely cured by the use of Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away the appetite for liquor, made his nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two year*, and has no desire to return to bis cups."—From a leading 88, Official R?sd Advt. An exasperated editor being threatened with a coat of tar and feathers, said in his next issue: “The people of this town may break into somebody’s henroost and steal the teatheiß, but we know they are too stingy to buy the tar,” A cigar contains acetic, formic, butyric, valeric propionic and prussic acids, creosote, carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen, virodins, picoline and rubedine, and a boy, just after having smoked his first one, will think there’s some more and worse things in it bolides, A Critical Case.—Doctor (who has been sent for at 2 a.ro.) ; “ Madame, pray send at once for the clergyman, and, if you want to make your will, for the lawyer.” Madame (horrified): “Good gracious! Is it so dangerous, doctor V’ “Doctor: “ Not a bit of it; but 1 don’t want to be the only fool who has been disturbed in his sleep for nothing.” A man, "in reduced circumstances,” advertises to let himself out to those people who wish to play practical fokes. Ha will allow cold water to be thrown over him, to be thrown into the canal, to be tripped up in the streets, to have articles sent to him, including coffins and bulldogs, to be sent to streets and numbers that do not exist, to have hi* door-bell r.ing, lo be the victim of mock telegrams and thus serve in a score of ways those human beings who rejoice in giving psia and annoyance to others, Holloway's Pills are strongly reoummended to all perron* who are much reduced ii power and condition, whore stomach* are weak, and whore nerve* are ahatteiel. The be efieial effects of thete Pill* will be perceptible after a few dayn’i tm), though a more estei ded o une may be r< quir dto re establish perfect health. Holloway's medicine act* on the organs of digs*ion, and induces complete regularity in the rtcmnch, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment is both *afe and certida in result, and is thoroughly consistent with obiervation, experience, and common sense. Tha pur fioation of the blood, the removal of all noxious matter from the secretions, and tha excitement of gentle action in the bowels, are the sources of the curative powers of Holloway’s Pills. A Scutch pedestrian, attacked by three highwaymen, defended himself with great courage, flild obstinacy, but was at length overpowered and hie pockets rifled. The robbers expected, from the extraordinary resistance they had exp'-nenm-d, to lay their hands on some rich booty, but were not a little surprised to discover j that the whole which the sturdy Caledonian had been defending at the hazard of his life consisted of no mor»* than a crocked sixpence. “The plague is in him," said the roguea. “If he had had eighteenpence, 1 suppose he would haye killed the whole of us.”