AS NEAR AS HE COULD GET

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8833, 17 July 1890, Page 4

AS NEAR AS HE COULD GET

In every country under the sun, and at some time or other during each revolution of the earth on its axis, a phenomenon is born. Sometimes a boy, sometimes a girl, but oh ! so ojever. They generally grow up to be the pride of the family circle, and a standing nuisance to the neighborhood, and oooassionally one is permitted to survive until it discovers that it doesn't even know as much as the old lady in the story book, whose romantio history is interwoven with the manners and custom of the age in which she lived. One of these has been camping out in the wet, and has got to own what he calls :— "An exacerbating nturalgio agony traversing the iscbiatio nerve; and thence along the peronoal surface of the leg to the sole of the foot." He is a tiinemth by trade, but that's as near aB he could get to the trouble, and the kindly ohemiet to whom he told it said ; "Young man, don't be a fool. You've got a touch of soiatio,ond so have hundreds of others justoow. The best thing in the world for it that I know of is St. Jacobs oil. It will oure every kind of rheumatic pain speedily; but for your otler complaint I fear there is no remedy short of sddden death."