MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1470, 20 February 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sir William Fox, it is said, will be asked to stand for Nelson at the general election.

The Wellington Po-t says that the Native Land Court at Taupo has now settled the whole of the tribal titles in that, district, and a ' ,ialE acres. v*., A Ohicago-Btreet corner lot that was nougui 1 thirty years ago for less than £IBOO, has just been leased for ninety-nine years at an annual rental £7OOO. A. ten-storey building, to cost a round million, will be erected upon it.

Br Estacby, a Vienna physican, has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for having gent poisoned thrushes to a professional rival, which as a supposed present of game, were made into pies and endangered the lives of the whole household. Decline of Man. —Nervousness, Weakness Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured by “Wells’ Health Renewer.” Druggists Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. 2

A gentleman once rode up to a publichouse In the country and asked : “ Who is the master of tin’s house !” “ I am, Sir,” replied the landlord, “ my wife has been dead three weeks.” A modern wit defines the difference between men and women thus : 1 A man gives forty cents for a twenty-five cent thing he wants, and a woman gives twenty-five cents for a forty-cent thing she does not want.

Oatabeh of thb Bladder,— Stinging irritation, inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints, cured by “Buehu-paiba.” Druggists, Kempthorne, Prosser and 00., Agents, Christchurch, 8

A mistress who had just hired a new cook made a tour of inspection after she had kept her a week, and found a policeman in the pantry. “ How did this man get here f' asked the lady severely. “I’m sure I don’t know,” answered the girl, “he must have been left by the old cook.”

Flies and Bugs, beetles, insects, roaches ants, bed bufs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by <f Bough on Rats.” Ketnpthorne, Prosser and Co., Agents, Christchurch, 8

English lovers of summer and longers after its appearance are by a member of the Geographical Society to remember that when the thermometer marks twenty degrees in the shade in Greenland, the Greenlanders go round mopping the perspiration off their brows and asking one another, “ Is it hot enough for you V And they wish a thunderstorm would come and cool off the atmosphere, A Lady’s Wish.—"Ob, how I do wish my skin was as clear and as soft ai yours !" said a lady to a friend. “ You can easily maks it so,” answered the friend. “ How ?” inquired the first lady. "By using Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did it lor me, as you observe ” Bead Advt.

At a certain school in Ireland, the children having read in the Bible the denunciations against hypocrites who “ strain at a gnat and swallow a camel,” were afterwards examined by a bener volent patroness, Lady F—, as to their recollections of the chapter “ What in particular, was the sin of the Pharisees, children ?” said the lady. “ Aiding camels, my lady,” was the prompt reply.

Cubed o* Dbihkihg.-—A young friend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor that had so prostrated hie system that he was unable to do any famines*. Ha was entirely cured by the use of Am. Go’s Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, loot 'iw j the fqr liquor, made his nerves steady, and He has remained a sober and steady man for more than two years, and has no desire to return to his oups.—From a leading E. R. Official. A small butcher in an up eountry town, not a hundred miles from Ballaraf, undertook to supply a family with meat. He sent the following reply to a note asking him to send some pork, which was not strictly '• in his line ” “ Madam, 1 have not heard of a good fat pig since I heard from you j but you may be assured that when I hear of one, I will remember you.—Yours, etc.”

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