THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 35, 2 June 1914, Page 3

THROUGH OUR EXCHANGES

It is said that the'great Salt Lake of Utah is but a remnant of a vastly greater sheet of fresh water, which one sent a river to the Pacific. June 30th, 1915, now marks the limit of the Westminster REGENT Gift Scheme. It has been extended at the request of hundreds nf smokers who also want to secure free giftswrite for Free Gift Catalogue to-day to Regent, Box 331, Wellington. 32 John Clark, .Matthew Meek, and Charles Meek, were tramping along the Midland (W.A.) railway, when they came across a patch of mushrooms. Being hungry, they ate freely. During the night all were taken ill. The two MeAs died, 'but Clark, who took a dose of painkiller, survived. Married man? Then buy REGEXT CIGARETTES. 'Not only will you enjoy better smokes but the Gift Tickets enable you to secure splendid Free Gifts—one is a Push-cart. Write to Regent, Box 331, Wellington, for Catalogue. 28 The final session of the Labor assembly in West Australia, elected on October 3, 1911. will begin on June 10. The House expires by the effluxion of time on November 2, but the session, according to the Premier, will conclude at the end of August. For the benefit, of the steadily increasing number oi smokers of REGENT CIGARFTI KS. the Westminster Great Gifi Scheme has been extended to June :><!;k h'Ho. Don't miss your chance. Drop a note to Regent, Box 331, Wellington, for a Free Gift Catalogue, now, 30

A famous American once visited £ menagerie at Washington, and pausing before a particularly ugly monkey, exclaimed:—"What a resemblance to 'So-and-so.' " The words Avere scarcely spoken when he turned round and saw standing by his side the very man whom he had complimented. "I beg your pardon," said the gallant colonel. "1 would not have made the remark had I known you were near me, and I am ready to make the most humble apology. Hut"—looking first at the man and then at the animal—"hang it if T can tell whether I ought to apologise to you or to the monkey.''

Wifev. see that hubbv smokes onlv REGENT CIGARETTES. The Regen't Gift Tickets will enable you to secure Free Gifts—including a Pushcart—may a« well get one. Write to Regent, Box 331. Wellington, for a Catalogue and particulars. 31

When Mark Twain was editing the Virginia City Enterprise he received from a superstitious subscriber a leJtjtei stating that the writer had found a spider in his copy of the paper and wanted to know whether that was good or bad luck. Mark replied iiirhis "Answers to Correspondents" column: —"Old Subscriber—The finding of a spider'in your copy of the Enterprise was neither good-luck nor bad. ; The spider was merely [looking over our pages to find out what merchant was not advertising, so that it could spin its web across his door and lead a free and undisturbed existence for ever and ever." And Mark hit the mark.

For Influenza take Woods' Great Pennormint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d.