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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 5

Keep a bottle of Stoarns' Wine of Cod Liver Extract at the office—refreshing and invigorating—revives your lost energy after a strenuous day of important meetings. Prompt and effective.—Advt. 41 "What was the best job you ever did?" inquired tho first barber. "I once shaved a man," replied the second barber. "Go on." "Then I persuaded him to have a haircut, shampoo, facial massage, singe, sea-foam, electric buzz, tar-spray, and tonic rub." "What then?" "By that time he needed another shave." A crossbred hen belonging to a farmer at Dovcrcourt, England, has laid an egg weighing four and a half ounces. When broken the egg was found to contain not only a double yolk, but another perfectly formed egg with shell complete'.

Tho Bishop of Ely, preaching tho anniversary sermon to tho Girls' Friendly Society at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, said that if there was a. need for the society when it was founded in 1875 the need was infinitely greater now, when the spirit of infidelity had become a menace to the national life and social health of tho people.

The promotion of Lord Mcthucn to be a Field-Marshal means that lie will have to relinquihs his post as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa, which is not of sufficient importance to bo held by one of the premier military rank, lie is expected Homo very shortly, and Gersham Court, his homo in Wiltshire, is now beiaz prepared for his reception.