Odds and Ends.

Otago Witness, Issue 1825, 12 November 1886, Page 33

Odds and Ends.

The surplus vitality of any one of the higher animals at all periods of its life is greater, we think, than the surplus vitality of man. A dog which had lost its sight from mere old age, and so old that it dies from sheer weakness, will bark his delight at an outing of any kind till the last month of his life, and will relish his food heartily up to the very last. The singing bird will sing and hop about with every sign of liveliness up to the very moment of its last sickness. The cat purrs over her fireside comfort to the last, and will take as much delight in her last brood of kittens as in her first. The old hunter will be almost as gay when he hears the cries of the hounds as in his younger days. So far as we know, there is little sign of the exhaustion of age with animals till the very end, and even then it often comes tranquilly in longer hours of sleep than in any sign of active distress. — Spectator. The Queensland Bat. — The Darling Downs Gazette said : The Queensland rat is a natural enemy to the rabbit, and rats are plentiful at times in the western country. Eats are not singly a match for the rabbit, but they appear to hunt in packs, and the inoffensive bunny would be nowhere when surrounded by a host of rats measuring 16in from the tip of the tail to the nose. Advice to Mothers t— Are you broken In your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of Mbs Wnrexow's Soothing Stbcp. It will relieve the poor sufferer immediately. It is perfectly harmless and pleasant to the taste ; it produces natural quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain ; and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a button." It soothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mhs Wikslow's Soothing Syiun> is Bold by medi-ciue-dealere evetvwhere at Is IJd per bottle.— Advt.]