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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 183, 5 August 1868, Page 2

Hollotwyts Pilhs. — The Great Necessity. — When the blood v has been impregnated with impurities or been Impoverished by bad digestion, excess, or other causes, an immediate antidote is presented in these purifying Pills. Unless this restorative be resorted to, the health will soon break down and the spirits flag. Holloway's Pills thoroughly purify the blood, completely cleanse the lungs, :reinvigorate debilitated or vitiated nervous ac- * tion, strengthen the muscles, and clear the brain. "These excellent Pills are particularly recommended to all persons whose occupations are sedentary and conducted in close rooms. The most nervous dyspeptic aud most desponding hypochondriac will derive advantage from taking a course of this excellent medicine, without expeliencing any weakening, irritating, or any other -disagreeable effects. 1659

Mr Fearon, assistant-commissioner in the late schools inquiry, iuspected an English grammer school, which, in spite of its endowments, was almost empty ; arid he asked the mayor and other members of the corporation who met him if they could suggest, for the information of the commission, any reason for the lamentable •condition of the school. After a long pause one of the citizens exclaimed — 'I think, sir, if the commissioners want to know why this school does not fulfil its founder's intentions, you cannot do better thsM send for a photograph of the schoolmaster.'

The Revue Populaire says there is a kind of ant in Texas remarkable not only for keeping other ants in slavery, and employing them in public works for the benefit of the community at large, but also for sowing around their settlement the seeds of .a small graminaceous plant which tkey afterwards reap and store away in granaries •constructed for the purpose.

The Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, •is •'slightly a widower,' five of hiß wives having died of pneumonia during the past ■winter. The bereaved husband has still mauy 'consolations' left.