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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 219, 18 September 1867, Page 2

Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — It is admitted by everyone who has personally tried these noble remedies for any eruptions, sores, ulcers, bad legs, etc., or who witnessed their purifying and healing effects on others suffering from such maladies, that nothing more can be desired than these medicaments possess. The Ointment relaxes the swollen muscles, diminishes inflammation, assuages pain, and even alleviates dangerous maladies which may have lasted for months, or even years. Holloway's excellent preparations are effective singly— resistless in combination— and have been recommended by grateful patients to be sought, us the alternatives, when all other means of regaining health have failed. Their action is temperate; not violent or reducing. 3236

We are informed that an enterprising American publisher is about to bring out a volume of nursery literature, in which the stories and rhymes of the * exploded old country' will be adapted to the tastes and understandings of young America. To illustrate this we shall venture on a version in prose of Humpty Dumpty. " Humpty Dumpty sot hisself on a tall rail. Humpty Dumpty dropt off his perch — ker-squash. And all the equipages* and all the livered menials of on effete monarchical system was just a oner boss affair as regarded the sottin' of that unfort'net CUB& on that everlasting rail agin] Moral : — The skreekin bird of Freedom what roosts on the zenith, with bis. head tied up in the star-spangled banner, rather kalklates that monarchy is played out — some !" — Fun. At an/ evening, party a., very elderly lady was dancing with a young partner. A stranger approached Jerrold, who was looking on, and said, 'Pray sir, can you tell me" who is the young gentleman dancing with" that elderly lady?'— 'One of the humane society, I should think,' replied Jerrold. . .

Why is a waiter like a racehorse ? Because he runß for cups and plates. ■■ -