BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1138, 20 January 1903, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

In Pennyslvania an old couple, aged seventy-six and sixty respectively, have just been married at Altoona. The happy bridegroom spent the honeymoon in building a mausoleum for himself and his bride. The other day Kasmar Falear, residing at Chicago, coughed up a live lizard lOin long, which had been in his stomach for years. Albert Jenkins, a fellow employee, captured and bottled it. Now Falear, who values the reptile at 200dol, has brought a suit for its recovery. In all classes of the community in England the cost of living has increased greatly during the last 12 months. A train, consisting of 13 cars loaded with silk, passed through Winnipeg, Manitoba, recently on its way from the Orient to Europe. The total value was £1,950,000. St. Petersburg police have discovered a gang of thieves who belong to the highest clashes of Russian society. A prince and several counts and barons are members of the gangA train on the Rock Island railway was held up by masked men near Davenport, lowa. They blew up the express safe and got away with its contents. New York is to be treated to the rare spectacle of a father and daughter in high society seeking divorces from their respective partners. Rhodesia has spent £25,000 on suppressing the cattle disease. JohnL. Sullivan,' the American pugilist, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The Irish delegates collected £IO,OOO in the United States. ! For the enoouragement of manufacturing industries in Natal a bonus of £3OO for three years is offered to whoever produces good bacon to the net value of £SOOO ine*cb of tho three years for which the bonus is ottered. . A aixteen-year-old schoolboy at 'Lemberg committed suicide because be was in love with both a widow, aged forty, and her daughter, aged twenty, and could nDt make up his mind which of them he wanted to marry. At the inquest it transpired that neither 6! them ■ would have accepted him. . , : In Adelaide on Christmas Eve, two young men boarded a Goodwood tramoar near South Terrace, grasped the conductor, a lad, ty the throat, cut the strap of his cash bag, gave the boy a blow, and made off with the booty, containing between £3 and £4, making good their escape. Mr Rownlree's investigations in York go to show that the average weekly expenditure in drink amohg a}l laboring classes in that city amounts to 8s per week."- ' SuiniEß Complajnt 'is the children's most dangerous enemy' and the mother's most dreaded foe. Immediate'and proper treatment is always necessary. Colie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, given according to directions,, is the roost effectual remedy known. Every household should have a bottle on hand. Get it to-day. It may save a life. G. E. Wharton sells it.