This is the way they weigh hogs i Arkansas. They lay a hoard across th fence, put the hog on one end, and pi! stones on the other end till th ■ y exactly balance the hog. Then they ‘'guess’' at the weight of the rocks. A San Francisco paper, with a goo 1 draught and an enterprising youth attached to the tail end of it, will load the immediate atmosohere with a fragrance that discounts a bone-yard or about factory that burns its own scraps. An African bon hunter contributes the following : —"To catch lions. Th 1 desert is composed of sand and lions Take a sieve 1 and silt the desert ; the lions will remain. These von pla''e in a bag Which yon carrry for the purpose. A traveller on a river steamer was making way, at dinner, with a large pudding near him, when a wait r stepped up and told him it was part, of the dessert. “I don’t, care,” said the traveller, “I'd eat i' if it was an entile wilderness.” II illoway’s Ointment and Pills.—Autumnal Kc-in idles —Towards the fall of the year countless causes are at work to lower the tone of the nervous system, which will he followed by ill-health unless proper | moans he employed to avert that evil. Hollowav’s far-famed preparations supply a faultless remedy for both external and in ■ cni.il complaints connected with changes of season AH flections of the skin, roughness blotches, pimples, snpeitieial an I deeper-seated nifl onuiati ms, erysipelas, rheuma ic pains, and gouty patina alike su vumb to the exalted virtues of Ho h>way’s Omhne it and Pills ; which will effect a happy r sohnio is in the patient’s condition, though the symptoms of his disorder are lc ion. and have obstinately withstood the best efforts of -cience o subdue them Advice to Mothers! -Are you in ok n in your res by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at. once to a hemisi and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow’s Sootiiino Syrup. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant, to taste, it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes “ as bright as a button.” It soothes the child, it softens the guns. allays all pain relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the hi st known ■ "me ly for lysent tv and diarrho>a whether arising from teething or other causes. M s Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is sold by Medicine dealers everywhere a* Is. Ija ner bottle. Manufactured at 493 Oxford . -freet, T.ondon
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Dunstan Times, Issue 917, 14 November 1879, Page 3
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