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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11556, 18 April 1898, Page 6

Wheels in your head, ungreased That’s awkward. Not drink ? No. Fit Flu, you know what that is ? Influenza that’s not brought on by swallowing a bs* of dominoes. It’s a very severe cold h every part of the body; the treatment i pure, simple and effective. Take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure; it knocks it out every time. Paste this on the kitchen block. ' y ' ‘ / , ' A house built of buttons is the lates thing in architecture, and a certain Frencl musical celebrity is building it. The walls the ceiling, the doors, the exterior and th interior are. all ornamented with button of every description, from the very origii of their invention up to those of the presen day. Those dating from the lower Grea empire are of the most curious manufaic ture, but every country has been ransacte and some very curious specimens hat been brought to light. A London milkman, watched by hi master and a constable, was said to hav been seen to empty a three-pint can c water into a four-gallon can of milk. Th man was charged with wilfully damagin, his master’s property. At the police-com he pleaded that he had lost so much mil on his rounds that he was bound to mak it up, but the employer stated that h allowed each of his milk-carriers tw quarts extra for that purpose. As th charge raised a novel point of law, th case was remanded for consideration.