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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8834, 18 July 1890, Page 4

A HOUSEHOLD GOD. London Figabo says : — "Sir Arthur Sullivan may be interested to learn that scrape from ' The Mikado' have been sung before the great bronze image of Buddha, at Kamakura, Japan. Colonel George P. Bisßell, of Hartford, Conn., and a party, of friends stood last month before this famous statue, and as the natives gathered around and set . np a great clatter, the Americans broke out as one man in * Here's a how d'ye do.' The Japanese were awed by the song, aud thought it was offered as an invocation to Buddha." Whioh is a very good story as far.as it goes, and reoallß another which ib absolutely true, of an important Japanese official at Yokohama, who had his own particular household god decorated - with, a St. Jacob's- oil -bottle suspended round the neck by a valuable string of jewels. -He had for years been a martyr to tbe demon of' neuralgia, and, the contents of that paiticular bottle had effected a rapid and permanent' cure, where all cl 3e had failed. That is one of tbe peculiar virtues of this remarkable oil, and the one of all others which has made it bo amazingly popular in all lands ; bnt.the above is probably tbe only instance on record in which it has received such an elevated recognition. The donor of the', bottle to the afflicted Jap. was an old sea captain of the most pronounced Ne# England type, and the solemnity with which he used to relate the incident was considerably intensified by bis own unbounded faith in the pain-3onqaering pioperties of St. Jacob's oil. REGULATING A TIMEBALL. Mr. A. J. Potter, one of .the leading business men in Newcastle, N.S.W., writes to tbe Sydney agents of the Wuterbury .Watch Co., under date December 30tb, 1889 : " I have been selling your watches for tbe past two years, and they have given every satisfaction. I repaired .one for Captain Bewick, of Wiokham, wbiph he informed me bad gone for four years, keeping time to half a minute a weuk. Another well-known resident, Mr. Zingel, baa one. with whioh be regulates' the Newcastle timeball. NOTE— . . '-Nought treads bo silent as tbe foot of Time." .Young, uose no time in getting a Water- , bury. The Waterbury is a strong, handsome, serviceable, well-finished watch, has nothing to fear from ridicule,, no .dread of exposure. ... I CAUTION .—lf you want correct time and a watch which'; in event of accident, can be cheaply repaired, demand the WATERBURY WATCH. All watches manufactured by the Waterbury Watcb Co. ha*re the word »« Waterbury" printed in small, fine type npon tneir dial faoee, and also the interwoven letters W.W. Co. Series « J," THE NEW WATERBURY, - , short-wind, stem-set, enamel dial, sank jeconds-hand ... ' ... ... ... 225)6d Series "L," THE LADIES' WATER- • , ; . BURY, ... short-wind, steni-aet, enamel dial ... ... 22s 6d Series " J" or' 4 L," same us above, bat with patent dial ... „ ' ... 20b Series "E/TTHE OLD FAVORITE 13s 6d ABK YOUR DEALEB TO SHOW YOU THE NEW WATEBBUBYB, JOHN AVKBY,