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Southland Times, Issue 133357, 20 January 1896, Page 3

" It's all right, Mary," he said, patiently. "Go into politics and run for office if you want to. But, remember one thing, the cartoonists '11 be after you as soon as you're a candidate." I don't care." "And they'll put your picture in the paper with your hair out of curl and your hat on crooked." " Do you think they would do that ?" she inquired apprehensively. "Of course. And they'll make your Paris gowns look like ten cent, calico, and say that your sealßkin cloak is imitacion-" "William," she said after a thoughtful pause, "I guess I'll just stay right here and make home happy. ' A horse kicked H. S. Shafer, of the Freomyer House, Middleburg, N.Y., on the knee, which laid him up in bed and caused the knee joint to beoome stiff. A friend recommended him to use Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which he did, and in two days was able to be around. Mr Shafer has recommended it to many others and says it is excellent for any kind of a bruise or spraio. This same remedy is also famous for its cures of rheumatism. For sale by C. H. Magalister. Chemist, Invercargill. Mrs O'Flaherty : "I see by the paper that the railroad's after payin' twice as much for cuttin' off a man's leg as it did for killin' wan. I don't understand it at all." Mr O'Flaherty : " An 1 aure that's raisonable. It takes so much less for a man to live on afther he's dead." 1896— The great want of a Vehicle that would carry five grown-up persona (#ith folding seat) nob cramped for the logs, and have also room for luggage, and most important of all be durable, strong, light running, and cheap, has employed the inventive faculties of coachbuilders for many years. These fmportant improvements have been overcome by a buggy that has lately been patented by ir Mathieson, Prince of Wales Yards. Those wanting Vehicles should make a mental note of the above. When Sir John Carr was in Glasgow in 1807 he was asked by the magistrates what inscription he recommended for the Nelson statue, then just erected. Sir John recommended a short one : " Glasgow to Nelson." " Just so," said one of the bailies, "and as the town o' Nelson's [Neilston] close at hand might we not juist say : "Glasgow to Nelson, j sax miles," an' so it might serve for a monument an' a milestone, too ?" I

The lady teacher of an evening school under the Sheffield School Board had given her pupils a few lessons in physiology and anatomy, and afterwards on the untoward results of tight lacing. How effectual was her leaching may be gathered from the protest which she received from the mother of one of her scholars: " Dear Miss . Please don't tell our L'zzie anything more about her inside. It is not nice, and frightens her. Besides, it's rude."