THE GREATEST HAPPINESS. Upon no subject is there more divorger.c of opinion among mankind than upon who constitutes the " greatest happiness.' Wealth, honour, fame, beauty, goodness, power, all these and other attributes'contest in men’a hearts and minds for the coveted position. Tet take any one of them, or all of them, and eliminate from its or their possession the health which is necessary to its or their enjoyment, and what is the gift hut Head Sea Fruit; Whence the calmer judgment of the more matured unhesitatingly decides that the greatest happiness is the possession of health, but {nose who cannot do so are but few and quite the exception. As a rule, the human being is the author of his own health state, and, mark you, if he has trifled with it, a heavy retribution awaits him for his breach of truth. For instance, you suffer from indigestion or liver attacks; you do, and you know it, because the symptoms are unmistakable. Yet you do nothing consistently to remedy the state of things. Beware! you are imperilling your life; shortening your days. While for merely 2s 6d you can procure at any chemist's Nurse Woodward’s Health Syrup, which is a certain cure for these troubles. 655
A sc)iintl of workmen employed in constructing a largo dry-dock at Cherbourg made a strange discovery ?. day or two ago.. For some time the • had used an enormous oak log as a sort of fulcrum in moving about the granite blocks. On Saturday this log suddenly burst. open under an ordinary pressure, and to the ama/. ivem ot the workmen a stiff parchment fell out together with a shower of gold coins. It was ascertained that the log had been originally part of the Galet fortification, and that at the time, of laying of the first stone thereof Louis Philippe had placed the document and coins in the log according to the usual.—“ Daily Messenger” (Paris). Follow the crowd, and yon will find yourself at the Grand Winter Clearance Sole now being held by the Te Am House Drapery Co., Ltd.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3783, 4 July 1899, Page 3
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