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Temuka Leader, Issue 1722, 10 April 1888, Page 3

A. rich man was suffering cruelly from Ihe gout, The clergyman of Lis eharch called upon him, and thought he would improve the occasion. "You eee, nay friend," he commenced, " wealth cannot purchase health, Tou would be glad now to sacrifice some of your riches and to be rid of your pain." "No, I wouldn't" replied Midas, in the middle of an awful twioge. "You may gi?e me twice as much gout if you will double my income." His friend collapsed. Darwin records bis real private opinion on the " Origin of Species " in a latter to Lyell: " Our ancestor was an animal which breathed wafer, bad a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull, and undoubtedly was a hermaphrodite." Here ia a pleasant genealogy for mankind ! "If you were to rake hell with a fine tooth comb, you would not find such a lot there an the present Ministry," is the elegant formula employed by a New South Wales politician by way of expressing hii dissatisfaction on certain points with thp policy of the present Oorernmeiit. A Good Housewife. The good home wife, when ihe ii giring her house iti ipiing renovating, ihould bear in mind that the dear inmates of her home are most) precious than many homes, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying the bloodl,'isolating the stomach and bowels to preyest »i d core the diseases arising from apriag malaria and miaima, and she mmc know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Dr Sonle's Amerioan Hop Bitters, the purest and best of maaicines. OoncordS. H. Patriot.