MISCELLANEOUS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 69, 6 March 1914, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

FIGHTING FOR BREATH. ".My little boy was a martyr to bad colds and coughs," says Mrs C. Warrell, Lake's Creek, Koekhampton, Q. "At times he has been so bad that I have found him fighting for breath. Since I started giving him Chamberlain's Cough Remedy I do not worry over his coughs, for I know that a couple of doses will give him immediate relief." Sold by G. W. Hutchins chemist. * A CHILD'S ADVENTURE. Alice Xewdeaii, alias Pcekham (.23), was charged before Mr Smithers, S.M., at the Central Court, Sydney, with un-

lawfully abandoning a child named Lavell Lee on January 9. Victoria Miller, the licensee of the Clipper's Arms Hotel, Bourke Street, said that accused and another woman entered the hotel and ordered drinks. She served' them, and when clearing the glasses away saw the child on the floor. Accused had then left the building. Dr Storey Gibson, medical oflicer of the Benevolent Asylum, Palmer Street, said the child was little the worse for its adventure. He thought the child was about three months old. Mr Smithers did not think the evidence sufficient upon which to convict, and defendant was discharged.

HONESTLY RECOMMENDED. "To anyone suffering from diarrhoea I can honestly recommend Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as being the most satisfactory remedy on the market," writes Mr C. C. Hooper, Wakefield, N.Z. "1 have tried all sorts of medicines, but have found nothing equal to Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy." ,Sold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist. SNAIL CHARMS AND MASCOTS. The latest lucky charm is the snail, ■which has lately come to figure onco more on the menus of the best French restaurants after a period in which it had fallen to the status of a lower mid-dle-class dish. The result of the snail's culinary vogue is that all sorts of lucky charms are being manufactured in _its form'.

Snail hat pins, snail paper weigh;.--., and entail bracelet charms arc- very popular. KICKED HIS BACK. '• [ ricked my back severely ami was unable to stand upright," writes Mr Thos. H. Mahcr, Ebden, Vic. "1 had seen Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised for strains, and thought 1 would see what it would do for me. The first application gave me relief, and 1 was quite myself again after using only a quarter "of a bottle.'' Hold by G. W. Hutchins, chemist. MANX JUDGES' OATHS. Tho quaintest form of oath in use in the United Kingdom is that taken by the Deemsters—the Manx High Court judges. "By this Book and the contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that

God hath miraculously wrought in the heavens above and the earth beneath in six davs and seven nights, I do swear that Twill, without respeet of favorer friendship, hxss or gain, consannguinity or affinity, execute the laws of this isle justly between party and party as indifferently as the herring backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish. So ihelp me God, and the contents of this Book." TAKE NO OTHER. "For nine years I suffered with a liver disorder, and tried numerous medicines, obtaining very little relief," writes Miss Esther .). Coles, Major's Creek, N.S.W. '' After taking Chamber- _ lain's Tablets regularly for a fortnight ' I found I was greatly benefited, and am now completely restored to health. My

father, who is Tit, is an invalid and is > troubled with constipation, but has obtained the greatest benefit from Chamberlain's Tablets. Rather than use any other medicine we have often sent into Braidwood, that is twenty miles away, j for Chamberlain's Tablets." Sold by 6. W. Hutehins, chemist. [ RED-HAIR CLUE. The discovery of strands of red hair | in a bed led to the arrest of a man and woman who by original methods have robbed a number of unoccupied Riviera villas. Whenever a robbery was discovered strands of red female, hair were found in ono of the beds. It is believed that t l * who has red hair, by shamming ".pileptio fits and asking aid at houses ths'covered whether they were occupied or not.

ALWAYS TAKES IT. , "T always take Chamberlain's.Cough Bemedv whenever I have a cold," writes Mrs A. Preston, 51 King William street, Fitzroy, A r ic. "I first took it when I had an attack of influenza, and I got relief at once. Now I always keep a bottle in the house, and never lose an opportunity to recommend it to others. I know dozens of people who look on Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy as a part of their household effects. "—Sold by 0. W. Hutehins, chemist.