THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4, 9 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

A Xew York doctor claims to have discovered the germ of infantile paralysis.

When sugar was first made from beet it took 20 tons of beet to produce one ton of sugar; now it requires but six tons, due to scientific culture of the beet.

Neither too light or too heavy, Mild Derby is the smoker’s happy medium in tobacco. Try a tin or a plug. It is cool, fragrant and satisfying. x

According to an official return, there were 656 cases of industrial poisoning last year in Great Britain, 50 deaths resulting. Lead poisoning accounted for 587 cases and 44 deaths.

Dr Hibbert, medical officer of health, for Warrington (England), says that | much more value would be got out | of meat if people did not cook it so : much.

“Measuring calmly the moral and i intellectual assets of all the great j countries of Europe, I doubt whether you can find one which has so clear, ! hopeful, and useful a mission as that marked out for England.”—Dr. M. E. j Sadler, at Buxton.

The man who likes medium strength tobacco should try a pipe or two of Mild Derby. It’s tip top. In tins or plug. There’s nothing to equal it. x

Speaking at Port Sunlight the other day, Sir William H. Lever said that among the things which the Congo natives prized most were empty bottles and boxes'; “With several empty bottles you can buy a wife there.”

A writer in the Daily Mail (London), referring to the constantly growing cost of production, says proprietors of halfpenny papers will in the future be compelled, like the Americans, to increase the price of their papers to Id, while the penny journals will have to be sold at lid.

Mild Derby—a blend of aromatic and full strength leaves makes an admirable tobacco for a medium smoker. In tins or plug. Try it. x

By means of a million penny fund tl'.e committee of Warrington Infirmary have raised enough to pay off an accumulated debt of £4OOO, and also to provide an X-ray apparatus, a new mortuary, and to pay for various alterations.

A sergeant of the United States Army has completed 7000 miles of a long tramp, which he has undertaken in order to test army boots. He left S f ew York last April, and is now returning from California in his fourth nair of boots.

With regard to the legacy of four millions recently reported to have been left to a farmer at Rewa, O.oua County (says the Wanganui Herald), we are informed that there will 1)0 several others participating ill a share of the fortune, one of whom, Mr A Jacques, is now- a resident of Wanganui.

That sense of luxurious freedom from care come to the man who smokes Mild Derby Plug or Cut—the tobacco with a fragrance ail its own Try it. x

The party which went to Cocos Island, in the Indian Ocean, to hunt for a supposed secret treasure store, has returned to Sheffield. They spent seven weeks on the Island, but did not succeed in locating anything of value, and the net result of the foolishness of the travellers is that they are several thousands of pounds poorer.

A mild suggestion was made to Captain Halsey, at Gisborne, that the hull of the wrecked Star of Canada would afford an excellent target for big gun practice by the Dreadnought, and he would he doing the port a service by removing such an eyesore from the very gates of the town. Captain Halsey smilingly replied that it would be better and cheaper to apply a charge of dynamite. The vessel was .so full of holes that a torpedo would only tear another piece out of her, and he incidentally mentioned that each torpedo sent out costs a little matter of £IOO.

A Kaikoura lady writes:—“l cannot speak too' highly of your Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion, which has proved so beneficial to me. 1 have used it for many months now and find it- tho best patent medicine I have tried.” Nothing will cure a cold so quickly as Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion Bottle Is 6d, 2s Gel, 4s Gd at chemists and stores. x

If ever there was a phantom ship it should ho one which will leave San Pedro for China this month. It will carry one of the most gruesome cargoes on record. The vessel will he loaded with tho hones and earthly remains of nearly every Chinaman who has died in Southern California during the last fifty years. Nearly a year ago the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association began to collect the remains from the churchyards all over the country, but tho preparations were carried on so quietly that no public interest was excited. The bones of about 6000 Chinamen have now been recovered, wrapped up in pieces of soft cloth, placed in boxes, and carefully sealed. The remains will be refill erred in China. Warner’s Rust-proof Corsets. In the latest models, the bust is low and full. Flexible corsetting above tho waist is tho result—the newest figure fashion. Perfect comfort with figure elegance.