MEDICAL.

How to Avoid Premature Old Age.

The following good advice is given by Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson: The rules for the prevention of senile disease are all per sonal. They should begin in youth. It should be a rule among grown-up persons never to subject children to mental shocks and unnecessary griefs. When, in the sur roundings of child life, some grave calamity has occurrefV-t is best to make the event as light as possible to the child, and certainly to avoid thrilling it with sights and details which stir it to the utmo-t, and in the end only leaves upon the mind and heart incur able wounds and . oppression. Children should never be taken to funerals, nor to sights that cause a sense of fear and dread combined with great grief, nor to sights which call forth pain and agony in man or in the lower animals.

To avoid premature old age in mature life, the following are important points to remember:

Grief anticipates age. Dwelling on the inevitable past, forming vain hypotheses as to what might have been if this or that had or had not been, acquiring a craze for re counting what has occurred—these acts do more harm to future health and effort than many things connected with real calamity. Occupation and new. pursuits are the best prevenattives for mental shock and bereave ment.

Hat© anticipates ape. Hate keeps the heart always afc full tension. It gives rise to oppression of the brain and senses. It confuses the whole man. It robs the stomach of nervous power, and, digestion being impaired, the failure of life begins at once. Those, therefore, who are born with this passion—and a good many, I fear, are—should give it up.

Jealousy anticipates age. The facial ex pression of jealousy is old age, in however young a face it may be cast. Jealousy preys upon and kills the heart. So jealous men are not only imhappy, but broken hearted, and live short lives. I have never known a man of jealous nature live anything like a long or a useful life.

The prevention of jealousy is diversion of mind toward useful and unselfish work.

Unchastity anticipates age. Everything that interferes with chastity favours vital deterioration, while the grosser departures from chastity, leading to specific and hereditary diseases, are certain causes of organic degeneration and premature old age. Thus chastity is provontativc of senile decay.

Intemperance anticipates age. The more social causes of mental and physical organic diseases arc investigated, the more closely the origin of degenerative organic changes leading to premature deterioration and decay are questioned, the more closely does it come out that intemperance, often not suspected by the person himself who is im plicated in it, so subtle is ibs influence, is at the root of evil.

When old age has really commenced, its march to final decay is best delayed by at tention to those rules of conservation by which life is sustained with the least fric tion and the least waste.

The prime rules for this purpose are

To subsist on light but nutritious diet, with milk as the standard food, but varied according to season. To take food in moderate quantity, four times in the day, including a light meal be fore going to bed. To clothe warmly, but lightly, so that the body may, in all seasons, maintain an equal temperature. To keep the body in fair exercise and the mind active and cheerful.

To maintain an interest in what is going on in the world, and to take part in reason able labours and pleasures, as though old age were not present. To take plenty of sleep during sleeping hours, to spend nine hours in bed at the least, and to take care during cold weather that the temperature of the bed-room is maintained at sixty degrees Fahrenheit.

To avoid passion, excitement, luxury.

The Trade in Flowering Bulbs.

A suit brought; in an English court by a German nurseryman to recover pay for 150,000 bulbs or " conns " of the lily of the valley, ordered by one florist, gives an idea of the extent of the trade in bulbs in some countries in Europe. At this moment millions of daffodils, crocuses, lilies of the valley, tulips and hyacinths are being pre pared for the retail dealera, and all winter millions more have been forced, in order to supply table and window decorations at a season when outdoor growth would be im possible. The hyacinth trade is an important branch of horticultural commerce. For at least 300 years it has bjsen cultivated, and as early as 1597 Gerard mentions six varieties as • grown in England. Less than a century later the six had multiplied' into many single and double forms, and in the middle of last century the famous Dutch growers of this bloom, "supreme amongst the flowers of spring," offered for sale fifty single-flowered and nearly 100 double-flow ered varieties. One of them, known as " La Reine dcs Femmes," a single white, is said to have produced from thirty-four to thirty-eight flowers' on a spike, and on its first appearance to have sold for more than 1A a bulb, while the " Conqueror," a double blue, brought fully double that price, the " Gloria Mundi " between L2O and L3O, and the " King Solomon " an even higher price. The original of all these plants is not, as many people suppose, the wild hyacinth of our woods, but a scarcely less insignificant form, bearing on a single spike only a few narrow-lobed " washy blue flowers." The improvements in it are due to the skill of 'the gardener, who" selects his breed ing forms with all the care which the grazier bestows on his Durhams and Ayrshires. The result is tha,t it is by no means uncommon to see spikes of hyacinths six or seven inches long, and thickly set with blooms which measure in circumference from seven to nine inches. Dutch growers still maintain their tradi tional eminence as the champion hyacinth rearers of the world. Haariem, . which in the height of the tulip mania was the metropolis of this trade, is still pre eminently the home of the bulb merchants. An area of between 100 and 200 acres is devoted to hyacinths alone, and the crop is reckoned to be worth more than L 30,000 a year to the cultivators of these profitable "crofts." In Covent Garden a single market grower sells from 60,000 to 70,000 pots under glass, their flowering season being accelerated by forcing, so that from Christmas until the season when they can be growh onfc of doors, hyacinths may always be had by those who choose to pay for the Uhniry. The reason why so vast a trade is done in this plant is that the bulbs being rarely grown a second time, enormous numbers have every year to be procured from Holland, Belgium and other continen tal countries which have a reputation for this bulb. The crocus is scarcely less popular. Every year new forms are being introduced, either by hybridisation or from sprouts, The narcissi are al? o coming into note, though most of the rarer forms of daffodils have the misfortune to be nob so well favoured as their spring rivals, the crocuses. Again, though the tulips no longer bring the price they once did, they are likely to grow in the esteem of people who are not to be dictated to by fashion in their choice of their garden favourites. Every one has heard of the ..bemper Augustus," which was sold two and a half centuries ago for 13,000 florins, of the "Admiral Enkheuzen," which TW 5' 000. °ftfce "Admiral Liefken- Bhoek,'valued at 4,000; of the English tourist W ho had to pay the larler sum for «». Admu-al yon der Eycl* " which he had

thoughtlessly peeled with his pen-knife, or of the sailor who ate with his raw herring a bulb worth ten years of his earnings, under the idea that it was an onion, and *' a rather poor one at that." Those days are past. It is questionable if many florists would know a Semper Augustus or an Admiral Liefkenshoek if they saw it. All the tulips sold in the Netherlands do not bring a fourth of the 10,000,000 guilders which a single Dutch town in those days cleared by one year's sale, and a speculator would require to make a very close" corner ' in the bulbs before he could hope to net the 60,000 florins which an Amsterdam speculator won by his ventures during four months. However, the taste has not quite gone out of Holland. A Dutchman will give a better price for a tulip than any other person, and the wealthy merchant of Rotter dam or Utrecht still shows his plots to a visitor with the same pride that men of more conventional tastes exhibit their pic tures. Ten florins will, however, purchase the best bulb in the market. But the tulip mania died hard. As late as 1800 it is said that 15 guineas were given for a Don Que vedo, and as late as 1535 a single Fanny Kemble brought at a London auction L 75, while a Chelsea nurseryman priced another at as. high as 200 guineas, though whether he sold it or not is not mentioned. We doubt whether the choicest specimen ever reared would nowadays bring a hundredth part as much ; and, though we live in days when orchids fetch fancy prices, Covent Garden would have no very high opinion of the man who offered for any bulb short of a new lily the figure which the poorest tulip once commanded.

COST NOTHING.

Story of a Man Who Ate Himself Sicls Because Another Paid for It.

A oußious-looking old fellow, dressed in grey "homespun," was found lying in an alley. When questioned by some one he turned over with a groan and said :

" Go on away from here, now, and let me

die."

'' Why do you want to die ?" '' Because I am a fool." " Come, get up ; that's no excuse." " Yea, it is. Go on'away, I tell you, and let mo die."

" Have n't you been drinking ?"

" ]No, I hain't teched a drap. Go on awny and let mo die, I tell, you. A man that ain't got no more sense than I have ain't fitten to live. It's dangerous for him to walk about."

" Come, tell me what you-did."

With an effort and another groan he raised up, leaned back against the wall and said :

" If I tell you will you go on away ?"

"Yes."

" Wall, I'll go yo whuther or no. Early this mornin' I come inter town an' met a fel ler that I knowed. He asked me to go round an' take breakfast with him. I had dun eat breakfast, but as it wasn't no expense to me I concluded that it wouldn't do to let the vidults go to waste, so I went with him. I eat a long handled shovel full uv butter cakes and drunk four cups uv coffee, argyin' all the time that it want costin' me nothin'. Airter I got through I went knockin' 'round an' "putty soon met a feller that eat dinner with me while he was a candidate last sum mer. He said that it was gefctin' putty well along in the day, but that if I'd go 'round home with him he'd skeer up soraebreakfast. I started to say no,but ricollectin' how he ate at my table, I went with him. On the way he got a lot uv these here great long sausages. Wall, I stored away about two pounds uv them 'sausages, eat about my hatful of biscuits, an 5 drunk three cups af coffee. By this time I was putty well tilled itp, but shortly afterwards one uv the boys that lives out my way told me that ho had found' a saloon whar they put out a whole lot uv vidults an' let people eat all they wanted to, so, as: it didn't cost nothin', I went 'round. I let in on a big, dish uv sour potatoes an' raw cabbage, an' made myself at home. After I got through with that I went to dinner with a feller because it didn't cost me anything, an' eat putty hearty. Then I struck out an' eat a few apples that I slipped out uv a waogon,an\then'l eat a piece uv cheese that 1 found in a" saloon, just because it didn't cost anything. About this time the Old Boy commenced to overtake me, an' I dodged in here an' drapped down, an' I hope I'll die before I git outen here, fur, as I said jist now, a man that ain't got no more sense than I have ain't iitten to live. When I think that I have eat myself to death jest because it didn't cost anything, it makes me so mad I don't know what to do. Oh, how I do suffer all over I"—" Arkansaw Traveller."

Sketch of Mr Gladstone.

The following interesting facts concerning the physique of Mr Gladstone are given on good authority :—A medical gentleman who knows him very well states that he is still one of the strongest men physically in the whole gentry of England. It is a marvellous thing to see him stripped to the waist, so superb is his frame, so notable i 3 the absence of an ounce of superfluous flesh on the hard sinews and muscles. This gentleman adds his belief that there was scarcely a man in. the House, young or old, whom Mr Gladstone could not whip with his fists if he tried. This is an interesting illustration of the value of exercise. The modern feeling is that if a man cultivates his muscles it is at the expense of his mind. No doubt there is some truth in this idea, as applied to a naturally indolent or moody man. He will only do so much work, and if he does it with his hands he will not do it with his head. But with a man who has a liking for labour, and Mr Gladstone is fanatically fond of it, the one only fits him for the other. He could have gone into the Brook Farm Community and / extracted from its manual exertion strength and eagerness for mental work. And so now, at his advanced age, and almost a solitary active survivor of, his generation, he not only rivals in physical strength and endur ance robust men who might be his grand children, but probably does as much mental and literary and public work as any other man in Europe. He is already two years older than Disraeli was at his death, and so far as can be judged he is a stronger and morecapableand industriousmanat seventy eight than hjs great rival was at sixty. Disraeli disdained exercise. ■ •

Daring Cycle Feat.

A daring cycle feat has been successfully performed at the Granite City by Ralph Temple, of the American bicycling team, for a wager. He undertook to ride on one' wheel along the parapet of the New Pier, which is about two feet wide,'twenty-five feet above the sea level, and five feet from the roadway on the other side. ' The intrepid rider made an attempt about half past six p. m., dressed in his racing suit. In cciae1 he should fall over into the sea, being an expert swimmer, and the tide running in, he calculated on being able to reach land again. W. J. Morgan had a rope attached to the hand'e bar, which he held slack in his hand for the purpose of saving the machine in the event of the rider falling. A start was made 220 yards from the lighthouse, and .the bicyclist moved rapidly in that direction. After going about a hundred_ yards, and making an ascent of eighteen inches, owing to an elevation in the wall, he nearly ran off into the sea, and shouted to his companion to look' out. He, however^ ; regained his equilibrium, and. proceeded to the light house, which he reached in safety, and was taken from his one wheel none the worse for his bold; feat. ' The . rider was loudly cheered by the croiyd of onlookers.

LITTLE FOLKS' COLUMN.

MINDING THE BABY.

I will say this of Dorothy, Though only six, she tries to be Useful and kind, as children should, And always keeps the baby good.

He pulls out drawers, and overthrows The chairs, and tray of nice clean clothes, That nurse has washed, and views the pie, All scattered, with a roguish smile.

If nurse is cross with him, and speaks, He cries till tears roll down his cheeks, But soon is good again when he Is comforted by Dorothy.

On hands and knees the boy can go As quick as possible, and so He crawls right off across the floor, And laughs with glee outside the door.

Then, pausing on the landing, he Makes for the stairs, and Dorothy Is in a moment on his track And brings him, flushed and struggling, back,

Though our small tyrant cannot talk, And tumbles when ho tries to walk. He knows who loves him best, and he Holds out his arms for Dorothy.

Tommy, who wants to prove things that he hears: Mother, do you think our big dog Lion would save a little girl's life if she fell into the water ?—Mother: I dare say he would, dear.—Tommy (enthusiasti cally) ; Oh, then, do frow Topsy in.

" I'm glad to say that our child is a generous little body. The other day her grandfather gave her a penny to buy her self some candy. As she was going out she discovered a little beggar boy on the front steps. She stopped, and looked first at him, then at her penny, then looked down at the ground, apparently lost in thought. Finally, with the sweetest smile on her beautiful face, she stepped up to the forlorn child, and, laying her head on his shoulder, said, in a gentle tone, * Here, little boy, take this penny and go and buy yourself a suit of clothes and some dinner.'"

At a school in the Midlands, the master told the boys of the third class to write a short essay upon Columbus. The following was sent up by an ambitious essayist : — " Columbus was a man who could make an egg stand on end without breaking it. The King of Spain said to Columbus, ' Can you discover America?' 'Yes,' said Columbus, 'if you will give me a ship.' So he had a ship, and sailed over the sea in the direc tion where he thought America ought to bo found. The sailors quarrelled, and said they believed there was ho such place. But after many days the pilot came to him and said, 'Columbus, I sec land.' ' Then that is America,' said Columbus. When the ship got near, the land was full of black men. Columbus said^ 'Is this America?' 'Yes, it is,' said they. Then he said, ' I suppose you are' the niggers ?' ' Yes,' they said, 'we are.' The chief said, ' I suppose you are Columbus.' ' You are right,1 said ho. Then the chief turned to his men and said, ' There is no help for it; we ax-e discovered at last.' "

HUMOROUS.

A man advertises to restore oil paintings. Wonder how many he has stolen. Hanging is too good for a painting that is badly executed.

The man that wants the earth doesn't seem satisfied when the grocer gives it to him in the sugar, j |

" She wants a new part," said an actress's friend to a dramatic author. " Yess," he replied, "anew character."

Laundrymen are the most humble and forgiving beings on earth. The more cuffs you give them the more they do for you.

The ninth wonder of the world will turn out to be " a church choir that never had a quarrel." The cheapest excureipn you can make is to the realms of fancy—no return ticket is required, and a collision won't kill you. He : They have dropped their anchor. She (on her first trip): Servo them right. It has been hanging over the side all day long. " Does the razor hurt, sir ?" asked the barber. "No," replied the customer, "the razor doesn't hurt, but my face does, awfully." There are lots of people who mix their religion with business, but forget to stir it up well. The business invariably rises to the top as a result. A gushing poet asks in the first line of a recent effusion, '' How many weary pilgrims lie ?" We give it up, but experience has taught us there are a good many. ■A lady who was troubled with sea-sick ness exclaimed :—" I don't see what these horrid troughs of the sea are made for." "For the horse marines to feed out of, madam," said a fellow passenger. "Can you tell me, Billy, now it is that the chanticleer always keeps his feathers so sleek and smooth?" "No." " Well, I'll tell you. He always carries his comb with him."

A critic, in noticing a discourse on " The Sayings and Doings of Great Men," re marks, "It is sad to observe how much they said and how little they did." Irishman (relating his exploits): " I walked up bouldly to wan o' the inemy and cut off his legs wid me sword." Listener: " Why didn't you cut off his head ?" Irish man : "That was already off."

As an instance of the remarkable cheap ness of Chinese labour, we note that in Chinese courts of justicewitnesses " can be hired at ten cents apiece to testify on either side of the question at issue, or on both sides at fifteen cents."

Graves: Did you ever notice that even the worst of men Us spoken well of by people when he dies? — Merriman: Yes, I've noticed it; but why do you ask me that ?— Graves : Oh, I merely remarked it.—Merri man : Is that all ? I thought perhaps you were not feeling well. Mind your stops.—Parasol: A protection against the sun, used by ladies made of cot ton and whalebone.—Straps : An article worn under the boots of gentlemen made of calf-skin.—Kites': Light frames, covered with paper, sent into the air by boys with tails on them.

"What is the origin of motion?" asked a celebrated lecturer. Well, there are many origins. A call to dinner will bring men to their feet in a secondhand a spider down a girl's neck is the origin of some of the loveliest motions the world ever saw.

Things One Would Bather Have Left Unsaid.—Sick Husband : " Did the doctor say that I was to take all that medicine ?" Wife: "Yes,- dear." / Sick Huuband : "Why, there is enough in that bottle to kill a mule." Wife (anxiously): "Then you had better be Very careful, John." " You see," said an Englishman, who was handling his dinner with a wonderful ap petite, to a Scotchman who was dining at ■the same table, "I take a great deal of butter with my fish." "Ay," answered Sandy, "an a deevilish deal of fish to your butter." •

"Look here, waiter," said a man in a city restaurant the other day, "is there any difference in your roast lamb and roast mutton ? I don't detect any." ' " Oh, yes," said the waiter. " You will notice that yesterday, when you had roast lamb, I gave you als (3d cheque. To-dayi when you had roast mutton, I gave you Is cheque. There's the difference."

Two honest farmers in riding along together encountered a large number of clergymen; and one of them said to the other, "Where be all the parsons' coming from?" To this his friend replied, "They've been at a visitation." The other, no wiser than before, says, " What's a visitation ?" and tho answer he received was, " Why it's where all !th6 parsons goes once a year and swops'their sermons:" His friend, on being thus enlightened, quietly remarked, " Dang it, but oor chap mun get the worst on it every time,"

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1887.

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Pnblic Notices. IJEW ZEALAND FROZEN MEAT AND • STORAGE COMPANY, Ltd. Head Office : Railway Whaef, Auckland. Works at Waitaba. P.O. Box, 113. "" ' Telephone, No. 106. Do. Acid Works. 119. Do. Butter Department, 275. Joseph banks, Managing Director. W. BEAMISH A. MORRISON, . Secretary. PRESERVED MEATS. This Company begs to direct public attention to its various Manufactures of Preserved Meats. The reputation of our "PEACH BRAND is now thoroughly established, and our sales have reached proportions which, we may safely say no other Colonial meat-preserving establish ment is able to approach. Our Goods are now to be found ix all THE BEST MARKETS OF THE WORLD. The high-class quality of meat that we are in a position to command enables us to pack an article which at all times gives us the pre feren over American meats. Thi is admitted by the Admiralty and leadin merchants. We may mention that the whole of our pre parations are manufactured on the most modern and approved principles, under which the use of Acids is avoided. SALT BEEFand PORK Packed in Kegs, Barrels and Tierces. Special attention is drawn to this line, which we are making a specialty, and which—with our facilities and the cold air process—we aro able to cure in mild pickle, the necessity of cut ting to small piece 3 being obviated. QUALITY; CURE, AND FREEDOM FROM LARGE BONE GUARANTEED. ALWAYS "I ~T f^i ~T7\ 7 f ALWAYS ON HAND./ X V_y Hi- - (ON HAND. COLD "STORAGE For Butter, Meat, and Poultry at Usual Rates. GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORED AT LOWEST RATES. During the Season Cold Storage for Game is offered at the following special rates:—Phea sants or Ducks, Is per brace; Teal, Plover, Quail, etc., Cd per brace; Hares, Is each; for any period not exceeding one month. Tf) TN consequence oi fnierior (j(Q OS JL • jaW Kg Butter having been put up jjaj r^ Lie—J hjr in imitation of and sold as our £^j FH bad " Shell" Brand, to the injury of L 1 «q |—| f\\ our reputation and trade, we «»- have arranged that in future NH O every half-pound pat leaving r™^ T~\ our establishment shall bear the words Ld2 O FREEZING COMPANY 0 on the margin surrounding the P*saj "Shell." To ensure obtaining Q Ej~3 a really choice article, and to Ey avoid disappointment, look for r"^ OS the words " Freezing Company" H p- BRSd £&j in addition to the "Shell"brand. f»V Should anything supplied as our Butter fail to give satisfaction, send Post Card to Glanville and Ellyett, Managers of Department, and a messenger will be sent to investigate. Delivered through the town daily, or at Depart ment Premises, Railway Wharf. TIMBER STATIONS, COUNTRY STORES, AND SHIPPING SUPPLIED with Butter in Kegs, Tins, or in fresh Pata in Boxes. GLANVILLE~~ANr> ELLYETT, Managers of Department. 1860. # AUCKLAND ROLLER Tt/rHLS, JC\> IVJL AND BISCUIT MANUFACTORY, FORT-FTREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z. (Office at the Mill). J 0 HN1 L A M B HAS FOR SALE: WHEAT MEAL in sacks, 100's 50' sand 25's; PREMIER FLOUR, in sacks; STANDARD FLOUR, in sacks; QUEEN'S FLOUR, in sacks, 100's, 50's, and 25's; Royal Flour, in sacks, 100's, 50's, and 25's. SHARPS, BRAN, FOWL WHEAT, OATS (whole and crushed), CABIN BISCUITS, FANCY BISCUITS. Flour and Biscuits packed in air tight tins for Islands trade. Ask your grocers for the Auck land Roller Mills' Flour, and encourage local industry. THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS Show the Utility of LAMB'S PATENT PORRIDGE MEAL., Auckland, June 11,1887. John Lamb, Esq. Dear Sir, —It has been on my mind for some time now to drop you a line about your Patent Porridge Meal. I believe you are awaro I have suffered considerably from injury to thestomaen from tea-tasting, and having consulted my medical adviser, he strongly recommended Porridge for breakfast, which I have taken until I heard of your Patent Porridge Meal. I may hero nay the Oatmeal soon caused unplea santness, sourness of the stomach, and pimples and spots, with irritation, on the surface of the body. From this I was glad to get away, and at once took to your Patent Porridge Meal. With it I find none of the irregularities com plained of above, but a most palatable Porridge, and the whole system free from unpleasantness or irritation. I can strongly recommend, it, and certainly think you should do a large trade in such an excellent article.—Yours very truly, (Signed) FREDK. VVHITEHEAD. Industrial School, Kohimarama, Auckland, June 2,1887. Mr John Lamb, Sir,— "We have now been using your Patent Porridge Meal at this school for two months, and I consider it but right to inform you that we all (staff as well as boys) like it so well that I would find it a difficult matter to get them-to return to using oatmeal. It is without a doubt a splendid article of diet. I may add on. my representing to the Education Department in Wellington that I was using your Patent Por ridge Meal instead of Oatmeal, I received authority from Rev. Mr Habens, . Secretary for Education, to continue its use in the school —Yours faithfully, (Signed) GEORGE P. HOGAN, Manager. • ■ Ponsonby, Auckland, ■ _ , _ , . May 30,1887. Mr John Lamb. • Dear Sir,—l think it a duty to let you know results of your Patent Porridge Mai on our youngest boy. He was weakly, and refused every food preparation that cou'd be got but upon getting some of yours he took to it at once and afterwards nothing would satisfy him but this porridge. Five or six times a day is riot too much for him, and seeing it being prepared cried until he got it. He is now strong and healthy, and can eat anything. Wishing you success,—l remain, yours, &c, (Signed) W. CARDER. Orphan Home, Parnell, i *r t , T , May 25,1887. Mr John Lamb: Dear Sir,-We are greatljr pleased with your Patent Porridge Meal, having used it for some & mo;,. he chud*en all like the Patent Porridge Meal better than anything they have had before. We thank you for supplying along-felt want—a pure" Porridge Meal, prepared so as to keep all the most valuable properties of the wheat.—l am, sir, yours truly, (Signed) E, NEARY, Matron,



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tfor every form of 2^l^M SKIN AND BLOOD \£9 ; U % o H S\ O EL J^i/^\ Eczema on Scalp. .."^^?.^'_ Scrofula onJSTeck. "pi"MPI FS to SCROFULA DISFIGURING HUMOES, Humiliating Erup- nUTICURA RESOLVENT, the new Blood Puri. tions ' Itchin." ami Burning Skin and Scalp \J fier, Diuretic, and Aperient, cleansea the Blood Tortures, and every species of Itching, Scaly, and Perspiration of all Impurities and Poisonous Pimply Inherited, Scrofulous, and Syphilitic Dis- Elements, and thus removes the CAUSE. Hence eases of the Blood, Skin and Scalp, with Loss of it cures speedily, permanently, and economically. Hair, from infancy to old age, arc cured,by Ccti ] ' — CURA Resolvent the new Blood Purifier, inter- Cutictira, the G-beat Skin Cube (a Medicinal nally and CcmciTitA and Cuticujka Soap, the Jelly for external use), instantly allays Itching and ereat Skin Cures and Beautifiers, externally. Inflammation, clears the Skin and Scalp of Humors, r_ Sores, and Dandruff, destroys Dead Skin andFleßh, Aroniziiu;, Itchinj?, and Burning Skin'heals Ulcers, Sores, and Discharging Wounds, re- Diseii3e», Et-zeina, Tetter, IHn^worm, Psoriamsjtatores tlie Hair, and beautiiies the Skin. Lichen, Pruritus, Dandruff, Mid Delicate Irrita-j——— — . <■ —- tiona peculiar to both seses, instantly relieved by ai Cnticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Beautiner warm bath with Ccticuka. Soap and a single ap- and Toilet Requisite, prepared from. Cuticuka, plication of Cuticura, the great Skin Cure. This in indispenßablo in treating Skin Diseases, Baby . repeated daily, with three doses of OimctrKA liE-lHumors, Skin Blemishes, Frickly Heat, Rashes, solvent, will speedily cure Itching Diseases of Sunburn, and Rough, Chapped, or Greasy Skin. the Skin and Scalp, when all other means fail. —— — : :— — Cuticura Kemedies are the only real Blood A Magnificent Popular Work on the Skin, Purifiers and Skin Beautifiers free from mercury, with Ens-raved i'lates, is wrapped about the Kesol-arsenic, lead, zinc, or any other mineral or vege- VENT. Also, one hundred Testimonials, Eolemnlyitafcle poison whatsoever. Guaranteed absolutely sworn to before the British Consul, which repeat pure by the Analytical Chemists of the State of this story: I have been a terrible sufferer for years Massachusetts. from Diseases of the Skin and Blood; have been For Sale ya n vendors of medicine. Price, obliged to shun public places by reason of my dis- Coticura, oOcts.; large boxes, $1.00.' Cuticuba figuring humors; have had the best physicians; g OAP) 25 c ts. Cuticura Resolvent, $1.00. have spent hundreds of dollars, and got no relief "Wholesale Agents, New South Wales, E. Towns until I used the Cuticura Remedies, which & c O-> Sydney; Victoria, Felton Grimwade & Co., nave cured me, and left my ekm ana blood asijj^ibounjjj. g out ii Australia, A. M. Bickiord & pure as a child's. Send to any wholesale druggist y onS) Adelaide; Queensland, Elliott Bros. &' Co., named in the opposite column, for " How 10 Cure Brisbane; New Zealand, N. Z. Drug Co., Auck 6kin and Blood Diseases," kma an ,i Dunedin. , Or Address with Stamp, Pbepahed bt the B. Towns & Co., New South Wales. Potter Drug & Chemical Co., Boston,lT. 8. At



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J)K HENLEY^ DISCOVERY. their practice, who recognise in <*!«>« S l*? ift nervine known. The Ixtraof of bZ^ nutritive and invigorating whito ffi a m «»t tonic for the blood and food fontti 1011*» S H A R L A~i~B 4 Cn WHOLESALE AGENTS. SOOTHING POWDERS i FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TttT» f CAUTION TO PDRCHABEHB. The value of this well-known Family Mftfli i has been largely tested in all parte of tW^' and in all gradesof society, farupwanS^ years. Its well-earned extensivesalefr duced spurious imitations, some tf »&>■■ OUTWARD APPEARANCE SO Closely T^mS* original as to have deceived many 2*."1 The prdprieter, therefore, *eels it to«T*s public to give a special caution against Uw Z< of such mutations. s^naai:^ Purchasers are therefore requested Mnki to observe the four MoS.jfi*' characteristics, without whj^ &£**». genuine :— ? *• Ist. In every case the words John Swim. man, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, X" graved on the Government Stamp affiant. each packet. wa ™ 2nd. Each Single Powder has directions ta the dose, and the words " John Steed™ C oei niS n?>,Wahvorc. h' Sprcy*" printed Scan 3rd. Tho name Steedman is always spelt iri^ 7£ofksn^ ctnveis ™M ™*0. thorxe, Prosser and Uo., AuckkalVM■ lington,Christchurch, and Dunedin. . 7. !'"! DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE? CHLORODINEj ! The Original and Only e«Huine. Advice to Invalids.—lf you wish to obtain quiet, refreshing sleep, free from headack relief from pain and anguish, to calm and a* suage the weary achings of .protracted disease, invigorate the nervous media, andregulatete circulating systems of the body, you will tw vide yourself with that marvellous remedy dis covered by Dr. J. Collis Brownes (late Annj. Medical Staff), to which he gave the name of CHLOROD YNE, and which is admitted by On profession to be the most wonderful and valu able remedy ever discovered. CHLOROD YNE is the best remedy knomfot Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. CHRORODYNE acts like a charm'ia Diarrhoea, andis the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery. ■~■■■ CHLOROD YNE effectually cuts short all at' tacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria,. Palpitation, and Spasms. CHLOROD YNE is the only palHatiTß in Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Toott ache, Meningitis, &c. From Symes &z (36., PharmacetsticalChisliig!! Medical Hall, Simla, January 5,1880. To J. f, Davenport, Esq., 33, Great Euaaell-fitet, Bloomsbury, London. Dear Sir.-We embraM this opportunity of congratulating you upon, the wide-spread reputation this justly esteemed 1 medicine. Dr. J. Collis Browne'sChlorodyne,hai I earned for itself, not only in Hindostan, tat all 1 over the East. Asaremedyfoi-Berieralufflte I we much question whether a'better is imports I into the country, and we shall be glad toheatof its finding a place in every Anglo-Indian horns. The other brands, we are happy to.say, arenpff relegated to the native bazaars, and. judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn to will be evanescent. We. could multiply in stances ad inUnitwm of the extraoroaarr efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne)in Diarrhoaa, and Dysentery, Spasms, Cramps, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, and asi general sedative, that have occurred underpin personal observation during .many yeas. la Choleraic Diarrhoea, and even in thd mote terrible forms of Cholera itself, wehai«mt' nessed its surprisingly controlling power. -We ha-ve never used any other form of thaman. cine than Collis Browne's fromafumcpnww that it is decidedly the best,and also from mm of duty we owe to the profession andthepuola as we are of epinion that the substitution o( any other than Collis Browne's is a bkljbebati BREACH OF FAITH ON THE PART OF Tffll CHEMIST TO PRESCRIBE AND PATIBNT iiM, —We are, Sir, faithfully yours, Symes and w., Members of the Pharm. Society of Great Bum, His Excellency the Viceroy's Chemiste. : CAUTION.—Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Pago I Wood stated that Dr. J. Collis Browns TO I undoubtedly, the Inventor of Chlorodyne; m m the story of the defendant Freeman was d>, «;• liberately untrue, which, he regretted to m hadbeenswornto.-See "The Times,' JnM; | : Sold in bottles at Is ijd, 2s 94, hM, and &', I each. None is genuine without the words M, ; J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne" ontiie6oven> : l. ment stamp. Overwhehning medical tesomoa/ ■ accompanies each bottle. .._«!«.« Caufion.-BewareofPi"^^SS?a I Sole Manufacturer-J. T. DAVENFJBT.ap ■ Great Russell-street, Bloomsbnry, London^ | C.-I»HAUTHAW£^HII THIS Bepartment is prepared t«^ 6 oS . I •vanceson MwtgW^*jSS3*i- I half of the value of ae|WP^ 3W(f w*p. ■ in sums of Money frop««'"' te eWwi^, § able by half-yearly Wmg^ jterH^ I overl2 ) ls ) or2oyeariJ,ontieloii^ | jjb«« ■ PerioaofLoan- 5 i J . ' | Twelve years •.. "' 5■ 8 » JPi/ieenyoara ... '". <18 • <L h i l . ■ Twenty years . »..■ . 'r va bl« bylßffi ■ Loans of ihis i*2S&«|S. toents whereby principal &^ &vi oa jm | liquidated within a f^ 80, I of a most favourable .S^drtfigJJ. I marked advantages to \wU«t* $&*&■■ I The borrower, any.ttiw^^^wK ■ Of the full period <»*"££* of fljjffl: I years after the oomin'^ffi™,^**^. I may redeem the 6^6,^^^ ■ on terms which canf u^ as 8 f Qasim^ I Office, or at any of to>o»Sieatlon <** wj | ment, where also forma 01 W I obtained. t^^Um I yebTOarj'2lst,!B7B. :,, . '