ODDS AND ENDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6869, 21 February 1884, Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

—Recent investigations at Hoshst-on-the* Main, where no fewer than 672 persons are employed in the aniline colour works, go to prove that though aniline is admittedly poisonous, none of the men who became ill died, and thos3 engaged for 18 years in the magenta house, though reddened with dye even to the inside of tho mouth, suffered no serious bad health.

—Sir Moses Montefiore sustains nature entirely on milk and old port wine, of which he drinks two or three glasses everyday, varied with soup, and a little bread and butter sometimes. Iv middle life he smoked, but has given up tobacco for many years. He rises at 11 o'clock, having had his letters read to him in bed, then drives out for some hours, and retires at 9. He baa a likeness of Mr Gladstone, of whom he is very fond, over his bed. He wears a blue coat, frilled shirt, and goes about in the old-fashioned sedan chair.

German Syrup.—No other medicine in tho world was ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boscbee's German Syrup. la three years 2,400,000 small bottles of this modi cine were distributed free of charge by druggists ia the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia, and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result has been that druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample bottles, Gd; regular size, Ss Gd. Three doses will relieve any case.—[Advt.] —The fact that the name of the month of November in the Russian, Polish, and Bohemian languages, and perhaps iv some other Slavonic tongues, is the same as the word signifying "fall of the leaf," is looked upon by some writers as indicative of a change of climate in the region where those languages aro spoken. The trees in that part of Kurops do now unquestionably finish shedding their leaves before November begins, and the argument thus derived in favonr of an earlier sotting iv" of the winter in Central Europe is not without weight. Catarhh Of the Bladdkk, Stinging Irritation, Inflammation, all Kidney and similar Complaints cured by " Buchu-paiba."— Mosks, Moss, and Co., Sydney, general agents.— I Advt.] The rubber sadustry of the United States has little rivalry in foreign countries, There is something like £15,000,000 invested in the business of manufacturing rubber goods, £6,000,000 of which is confined to the rubber boot and shoo industry. The total number of employes is placed at 15,000, and the total number of factories at 120. According to a recent census bullotin, the value of the annual product is £50,000,000. Flies and Bugs, Beetles, Insects, Roaches' Ants, Bed-bugs, Rats, Mice, Gophers, Jackrabbits cleared out by "Rough on Rats."— Mosks, Moss, and Co., Sydney, general agonU— [Advt.] —It wa3 announced some time ago that the Duke of Edinburgh intended to devote some attention to dairy farming. He has alreadyseveral very fine cattlo at Eastwell Park, and he is now having built there a large dairy. The wood of which it is built comes from tho Sandringham Estate. Tho plan of the buildIng is unique, and it ia to be fitted up in an elaborate manner, Wells "Rough on Corns."—Ask for Wells' "Rough on Corns." Quick relief eomplote permanent cure. Corns Warts' Bunions.—Mosks, Moss, and Co., Svdnov' general agents,—[Advt.] -Two books formed with sheet-iron leaves have been sent to tho Amsterdam Exhibition by an hughsh firm, as an illustration of tho perfection to which the prooess of rolling sheets of iron has been brought. The leaves are said to bo no thicker than "good-toned paper "