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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 109, 14 February 1872, Page 3

Worth Knowing. —At this season when diarrhcea is very prevalent, a simple remedy which our informant states he has used for years in his own family, and given with success to many diggers on the West Coast gold fields is worth knowing. Tt is cochineal reduced to an impalpable powder, and given in a liquid sucli as a little tea without milk but sweetened with sugar. The dose for an adult is as much as will lie lightly heaped up on a shilling, administered once a day for three days. It relieves the distressing pain in a short time after being taken, and ns it does not cause the discharge to cease too suddenly. danger from inflammation is avoided. Our informant says that lie lias given it to i 'ant in arms in small doses, and lias never known it to fail, two, or at most three doses, being snflicicnt even for severe cases. For children the dose must be in proportion to the age of the child.

Jt is complained that people go to the opera in full C -ess in New Orleans, and there cat pea nuts.

Fashionable virtue is described as a flirtation with your friend’s pretty wife, while you pretend to be seriously in love with her elder sister.

Miners and others arc enabled to economise bv the chear-skllixg smallI’ROI’IT system carried on at the Cash l’alaecs. and it is well that all should know that- a genuine system of MARKING AND SEELING ALL THE GOODS AT VERY LOW prices is strictly adhered to at the Cash Palaces. Men's and youthC and boys' clothing of every description, and men's, women's girls’ and boys' boots in the greatest variety Believing in the broad principle of no favour in business, the proprietor of the Cash Palaces takes his stand, and only depends on the quality of the articles and the lowness of the prices being the inducement to cause miners and the public generally to find it an advantage and a Loan file saving to them when they patronise the Cash Palaces —A DVT For the Holiday Festivities. —Just arrived by the •Hero." from .Melbourne eases of new and fnMiicnnblc Boots and Clothing: also. IS eases, direct from London and Glasgow, by the ship ’Chile’; and •1 cases of Boys' and Youths' Suits, and Elastic-side Boots. This splendid selection was ordered expressly for the holiday season WarmoU's Cash Palaces.—Adv,