, A correspondent of the Daily News at Korosko says: — " The monotony of the life of the three officers here is something indescribable. An out-station in a bog in Ireland would be a paradise in comparison. Sand, sand, eternal sand, varied by black rocks. I remember describing a fearful hole I was quartered in, in the Soudan — Kawa, on the White Nile; but there one could occasionallysally out at early dawn over grassy plains, brushwood, and see the startled antefope bound awaj and tho bustard whirr overhead. Here, outside Korosko fort and hamlet, there .is not a vestige of life, naked savage sterility, unrelieved by a sinpfe blade of grass." The' achievement that gave to the world .Woj+Pe's Schnajs'S, will live in the history of curative science as long as the human frame is subject to natiral diseases. " Rough on Corns. " — Ask for Wells' " JEtough on Cons.. " Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts bunions. Kempthorne, Prisser & Co., Agents, Christ, church. G-ood Words— From Good Authority. — * * * We confess that we a*e perfectly amazed at the ran of your Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) lias been selling drugs hare nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise of Hostetter's Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that Hop Bitters have * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., August 22, '78, from Benton, Myers, & Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, 0. Hj sure and see.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3, 5 January 1885, Page 3
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272Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3, 5 January 1885, Page 3
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