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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2534, 6 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Tiikkk is great distress in Montenegro, 40,00!) persons being dependent on charity. SiniißiA has its first university. It is situated at Tomsk, in the province of that name. A Turkish journal in Constantinople publishes figures to .show that 112 men and KiO women of Christian or Jewish faith have professed Mohammedanism during the past year. Tjik reader of proprietary medio.ine advs often wonders what reply is given to tho surviving victim who makes bold to go to the medicine man and demand the "jp jOO reward for a case we can't cure." This is how one of them came out. " Doctor," complained the patient, "I've swallowed your cure for five years, and here lam not cured a bit." The doctor looked at him pityingly ns ono who had not at all comprehended the spirit of tho offer. •' five years! My dear sir, you've only just got started. Come to mo after, say twenty years, and I'll talk with you."—Buffalo Express. Pim'.akikg of volunteer lady nurses in time of war, a soldier says :—Some of the nurses are wise, and some foolish ; some few careless! most over anxious that their patients should eat—should rouse themselves when lethargic, and sleep when inclined to look about and talk ; and all of one mind that the patient should be constantly bathed with water or with Bcent. " Poor fellow !" one lady was heard to say, while, tears of compassion stood in her eyes, " poor fellow, you are suffering! It will relieve you if I wash your face." The young fellow said nothing until his nurse had sponged bis face, and then he turned to the wall with a groan, and muttered: "That's the ninth lady as has done it to-day."