AS NEAR AS HE COULD GET

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8832, 16 July 1890, Page 4

AS NEAR AS HE COULD GET

In every country under the bud, and at some time or other during eaob revolution of the earth on its axis, a pberomenon is born. Sometimes a bor, sometimes a girl, but oh 1 so~clever. They generally grow up to be tbe pride of tbe fatrily oirole, and a standing ruisance to the ne? bborhood, ard ocoasß<onally one is permit' ed to survive until it discovers that L doesn't even know as much aB tbe old lat'y in the etory book, whose romantic history is interwoven witb the manners and custom of tbe age in which she lived. One of these h> - been camping out in the wet, and has - n > v to own what be calls : — "An exacerbating neuralgic agony traversing the ischiutic nei ye, and thence along the peroneftl surface of the leg to the sole of the foot." He ib a tiinsmth by trade, but that's as near as he could get to the trouole, and the kindly chemist to whom he tod it said ; "Young man, don't be a fool- You've got a touch of sciatia,ond so ba\e hundreds of others just cow. The best thing in the world for it that I know ofielSt.Jaoobsoil.lt willcure every kind of rheumatio pain speedily; but for your other oom plaint I fear there is no remedy Bhort of sudden death."