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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 212, 7 September 1891, Page 3

Few people can form a definite idea of what is involved in the expression, " An inoh of rain.'-' It may aid such to follow this curious calculation : An aore is equal to 6,272 640 gqnare inches ; an inoh deep of water on this area will be an many oubio inches of water, whioh, at 227 to the gallon, is 22,000 gallons, This immense quantity of water will weigh 220 000 pounds, or 10 tons. One-hundredth of an inoh (0-01) alone Is equal to one ton of water to tbe aore. Bolhway'B Ointment and Pills.— Notable Facts.--Intense heat augments the annoyanoeof akin disease, and encourages the development of febrile disorders ; therefore they should, as it may, be removed by these detergent and purifying preparations. In Btomaoh complaints, liver affections, pains aiid spasms or the bowels, Holloway's ointment well rubbed over the affected part immediately gives the greatest ease, prevensts congesticfc and inflammation, checks the threatening diarrhoea and averts inoipient ' cholera. The poor' inhabitants of large cities will find these remedies to be tneir best friend when any pestilence rages* or when from unknown, oauses, eruptions, boils, abscesses, or ulcerations betokens the presence Oi taints or impurities >rithia the system, wid call foe infMj m% sfitoQtiYQ curative