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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 264, 6 November 1867, Page 2

An amusing anecdote is related by the Warrnamboql Sentinel about two jolly friends who -were travelling up-country on a jaunt. The pair pulled up at a road-side inn, not a hundred miles from Warrnambool, and called for a bottle of the best English stout. ' None of your Colonial stuff, &c. I ' Two glasses were promptly served, arid the wayfarers both united in praising the quality of the comforting and exhilarating beverage. 'So different to any of your colonial rot.' as one remarked, with a knowing wink. The worthy boniface, not a whit abashed, told the traveller that he had none but colonial in the house (?), and immediately brought forward the bottle from which he had just drawn the cork and served. The discomfiture of the connoisseurs may be better imagined than described. A poor country man having been summoned before the magistrates of St. Alban's for arrears of poor-rates, was asked on what ground he objected? To which he very innocently replied, ♦Lord bless you, gentlemen; I have no ground at all; mine's only a cottage.' Chief Justice Story was once a guest at a public dinner in Boston, where Edward Everett was present. "Wishing to pay a delicate compliment to the latter, the learned judge proposed as a volunteer toast ' Fame follows merit where Everett goes.' The brilliant scholar and orator, tossing up his wineglass, at once responded, ' To whatever heights judicial learning may attain in this couutry, it wiil never rise above one Story. Holloway's Pills.—The Grand Requisites. — Nobody will deny the assertion that for man's comfort and happiness pure blood and a sound stomach rank among the first requirements. Both may be safely and inexpensively secured by these admirable pills: which act gently on the weakest frames, and cause no violent shock to the most sensitive system. Hollowav's pills have proved themselves competent to deal constitutionally with those infirmities which descend from parent to offspring, which often mar the brightest prospects and throw a constant gloom over youth. These Pills purify both the solids and the fluids of the bodj ," and by that salutary process" rouse every organ to perform naturally its proper function, and strengthen every nerve for its proper duty. , • 3619