A REMINDER. Of Wiiat does a, bad taste in tho mouth remind you'; It indicates that your stomach is ui a bad condition, and will remind you that, there is nothing so good for such disorders as Chamberlain's Tablets. They eleanso and invigorate the stomach and regulate the bowels. Sold everywhere. — A human hair 0 f average thickness can support a load of 640Z, and the averago number of hairs on the head is abo.ut 50.000, A woman's long 1 hair has a total tensile strength of more than five tons, and this strength' can be increased one-third by twisting tiie hair. Tne ancients made practical use of the strength of human hair. The conds of the Roman catapults were made of the hair of staves, and it is recorded that the free women of Carthage offered their luxuriant treses for the santo use when their city was bcs:crc<l by the Romans,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14700, 7 December 1909, Page 5
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152Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 14700, 7 December 1909, Page 5
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