General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4680, 7 January 1884, Page 2

General News.

At a race meeting at Alexandra Park, near London, recently, in a Selling Bace, a head only divided first and second, while four ran dead heat for third place, only a head behind the second. This is bringing handioapping or luck to per fection. How ever, this finish will be memorable as an exhibition of horseman* ship between Cannon,] Archer, Fordham, Groater, and Luke. A rose farm is a now Georgia industry. Two gardeners in the vicinity of Savannah planted three acre 3 in rose trees. This year they sold 22,000 trees to persons in the North, and had orders for 30,000 which they could nofc Jflll. The trees met with a ready sale at from lOdol to 2Odol per 100. Sir Bernard Burke in his "Beminish cences," tells how Sir John Sofaaw of Greenoek, who was a Whig, lost a hawk which was supposed to have been shot by a Jacobite neighbour, Bruce of Clack' mannan. Th.c wife of Sir John Scbavr suggesting a reconciliation between the two lairds, if the latter would offer an apology. She received the following reply :—■" For the honored hands of Dame Margaret Scbaw, of Greenoek.—Madam, [ did not shoot the hawk. But sooner than have made such, an apology as your lady^ ship has had the consideration to dictate, I would have shot the hawk, Sir John Schaw, and your ladyship. I am, madam, your ladyship's devoted servant to com* mand, Clackmannan." Weils' "Bough on Cojwb."—Atk for Wella' «Bough on Oorni." Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Oorni, warW bunionß.-~Mose«, Mom ana Co.,- Sydney, Ageqtg, *'

The Bad and Worthless are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true-of a family medicine, and it. is positive proof that the remedy imitated is of the highest value. As" soon aa it had been tested and proved by the whole world that Hop Bitters was the pureßt, beßt and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitation? •prang up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to induce eufferiug invalids -to use their stuff instead, expeetiag to molif money on the credit and good name of H. B. Many others started nostrums put up in siir.ilar style to H. 8., with variously devised names in which the is ord "Hop " or ?' Hopa " were used in a way,to induce people to believe they were the same as Bop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or cures, no matter what their elyle or name is, and especially these with the word "Hop" or "Hops" in their name or in any war connected with them or their name, are imitations or counterfoils Beware of them. Touch none of them. Uee nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr Soule's name blown in the glass. Trußt nothing else. Druggists end Chemißts are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.