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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2757, 24 November 1887, Page 2

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Wednesday's cablegrams chronicle •. the. destruction at New York of . tho. wonderful menagerie of this. famous veteraii showman.,. • Numerous,. anecdotes are told of his wondroiiH , ability, especially in, tho direction of turning everything. iiito a financial speculation. Barnum, as a showman, iibstainpr himself-irdiii' Dfll ihtoiimtfawg ' drink, he insists that every member o ~y his shalklso'. abstain duringß such tiino.as : hfi.oi' she .'is engaged' joiv'', Some : few years ago" Barn am, when Ciohdor#, wfts asked by a journalist ' i\i ' . ho was arranging to bring his big' .. showrtoithat country; Barnum ropliw with, a merry twinkle in his eye, "Well. .1 guess your country aint big enough "to : hold '.it. 1 . Very few. men have taken'more money in tho slww busi-. tlian this same. Barnum, aud fie ■ lias won and lost several .big fortunes. Some years ago an. ambitions JAuth, , wlio wanted to make his pile \Spthe easiest and quickest way, was sent' to Barnunj'for. advicej Who, in reply to . the question, " What do you consider made your fortune," said very pithily, " Young man, I made my'fortune with brass and printers' ink." Barnum used to carry round with him his famous" Lightning Changer," . an individual whose mechanism was ft side show in itself. The man sold two shillings admission tickets. He'would receive com, make change and deliver tickets to half a dozen persons at a time. The rapidity of his hands .was so great that their movements could not be analysed. It seemed to ,the dazed observer that he did but make a continual "scooping" movement of tho money into the wagon behind him; but wiih all his swiftness he never made an error in change. The struggling,' fighting crowds would • swarm about him, thrusting in ,their two shillings and fending off the press about thorn. Men would cling so tightly to their coin that he would have to bring his fist down ." h&jg" upon .their fingers to out, There; is a story related of him that a inan once shoved in a pile of penny pieces to him for a ,l You,doii t come that'," safd... tho, Lightning Changer, glancing at the pile and showering out tickets to other hands. "Tako that away, will you?" shouted the changer, sending the pile in a scattered shower among.... the crowd; "there's 'only, one and elevenpence halfpenny in that pilo 1"

TO THE EDIXOB. through your; columns to acquaint lw : people of the Wairampa of the fact that Tarn giving.up the clothing portion o{ my businc'Ba entirely, and conseoueutly ainmpw selling mens', joutli'ii and boy'i clotliing at whatever it will fetch', at 1 am determined to vdnlisc 011 it at all • - : Yours Truly, ■ J. 'IHORBUKIf, Clothier and Outfitter.- corner and, Manners St.-; Wellington!?

TOal (Juostioas I Ad lite most eminent physician Of any school, what in the best thing ij tho world for quieting and allaying all irritation of the nerves, and curing all forms . of nervous complaints, giving natural, ohild. /, like, refreshing sleep always ? • And they will tell you unheßitfttiiiglr. - : "iopie form of Jlopi 111" ,^-i , - CHAPTER I, ' Ask any or all of the most eminent pliysloiwM " What is the best and only remedy that can be relied on to cure all diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs; such asJßright'a disease, diabetes, retention, and inability. ..toobtain urine, and all the diseases and JP* ments 'peculiar to women"— ' '**{> And they will • tell you explicitly ani. emphatically " Bucliu," Ask tho same physicians " What is tho most reliable and surest cure for all liver diseases and dyspepsia, co istipation, indigestion, billiousness, mil. aria, fever, ague, &c.," and they will tell you . Mandrake! or Dandelion! !11 ■:: Hence when these remedies are combined, i with others equally valuable,. " ; . J .And compounded into ®r.: Soule's Amerij^n 'Hop Bitters, such a wonderful and id. ; ous curativo power is developed, whiqSHrsa I varied in its operation's thatnt)..disease' or ■s' ill health can possibly exist i or,, resist' iU :'f power, andyotitis . ... . f-'

Harralesg for the most frail women, weftbr est invalid, or smallest child to u&e. • /' ' CHAPTER 11, j "Patients 1 / ' Almost dead or nearly dying" - For.yearspand given up by-.physicians, ' Bright's and other kidney diseases, liW complaints, severe coughs, called consume. '.' ' tiori, have been :cured. jlre Women gone warly craiy 11111 From agony of neuralgia, nervouwm wakefulness, and various diseases pecraj&u ■, to women, ■ People drawn.out .of sliape_ fr6m ting pangs of rhcpatisaii' inflammato^'aoil chronic; or suffering froii) sorofula. -J' ; Erysipolas I •.' ' '• "Saltrhoum, blood poisoning, indigestion, and, in fact, almost all dlMa&g fra'l" _ ' ; j. ~ •Nato is hoir to . ■)' ' Have been onred by Dr, jJoule'g Hop ■ Bitters, .proof of which canity, found in every neighborhood in the tn'oWii world- ' " • • gennme-'without a bunch of p#eo hops on the while label, and Dr. Soule'saaaw blown on' the bottle. Bewim of all the vik 1( • poisonous, stnfi made to intimate the abort. 'i; . v . h . ..; it J:

..'iinrcß m -amw -TOm.w.jw» .vtf. daughters Bay,<" flow much beferftjffll : : ;inf»iiice he used Dr SoiilaV AweroM f/ Hop Bitlera He is gottiug waUiftw his-loiig suffeung from a diAeaßs tfftelircd incurable, and wo are bo glad, hi tiqed yqu&JJiltera.' 1 A.lady of BothWfcw. N.Y.—Utica Herald. y,l M v