JUST WHAT IS WANTED.

Timaru Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4885, 7 July 1890, Page 3

JUST WHAT IS WANTED.

Whenever any article has stood tho crucial 1 test of public uso and opinion for any lengthened period of time, and tho public demand for such is continuously sustained, you may be auro that it fills a publio need,-,-that is just what is wanfot|. Wljen, \a the cage of that article bcjpg a proprietary medicjnp, the dpmanrl is nqt only 6tendily suetained, 1 but continually increasing, you may bo absolutely certain that thero is nomo extraordinary merit in it, and in tho caeo of St. Jacob's. , oil tl|is ia homo out by the testimony of tho prpss and of thoiienndo of roputablo citizens ' in all parts of the civilised world. Apropos, , Messrs Francis Nowbery and Sons, London, ■ ono of the oldest drug liousob in Qroat 1 Britain (established npsirjy a pontury and a ' half) write t ''We havo gold Bt. Jacob's oil 1 for years ; demand continually inoroasing on its extraordinary merits," [4]

The Minister of Public Instruction at Berlin I has issued a circular to tho directors of high schools, drawing attontion to the number of Biiicides among scholars, and urging them to 1 seek for elepn to put a stop to tho morbid inclination!! of these youths. The Minister 1 recommends teauhors to bo as lenient as pos- ' sible with bnokward boys, and says that ' boys should not bo compelled to study if tho; | are ppt (It for jt. Tito pirpular adds tliatr feaohera and paronts should po-operatp in the | education of the bnys. A strange inpidont ocourrod in Bombay rei oenlly. A monster mooting of Hindoo ba*horj i was held for tlie purpose of considering tho i question of the impropriety of shaving Iho > heada of Hindoo widow?, and thereby dieflgnr- > ing them for lifo. About 400 barbers having > assembled, ono of them, named Babajoo More, ' read n pamphlet in Mahratti, in which bo stated that tho barbers of old woro happy and > contended, but latterly, ft* though a curse had i desoondod on their heads, trade had fallen off and thoy had becomo poor. Tho curjo ' could only be accounted for by thn-facfc that thoy woro committing u groat sin io shaving jl;p heiid.B of poor, innocent; wicjaws, thus depriving thorn of their bent ornament. It was ufainst the Hindoo Scriptures to deprive a widow of her hair, and doubtless it was the oursos of Iho widows that lincl lowered their 1 calling. Tho meeting thereupon unani- ' mously resolved that no barbor should share 1 a widow's hoad, and tbat if ho did he should ' b« excommunicated. Tho immigration of Indian ooolios has nl- | trays boon rognrdod with disfavour in Natal, , whoso peoplo lock upon the Anal ice in much . tho samo light db Americans and Austra- . lians look upon Chinamen. But despite this circumstance, tho unwelcomo visitors continue i to arrivo, to tho discomforture of many i Nabulians, whoso repugnanoe to them is ex- ; pressed by a writer in the N^lal Afqwui','/, r who ''adysW •' The ' Indian iiivneian ' ouhi tinuos as strong as ovor, and the question i which ono day will havo to bo doalt with, is | ddily growing moro difficult by reason i of tho added strength to the Afialio i population.lt was anything but a pleasant [ sight to colonists on a recent Saturday aftor- , noon to seo tho hundreds of long-robed Indian i tradors crowding at the <>nd ot the wharf, , actually driving bargains on tho spot as to the • price they should pay for their luggaßO bßing landod. The qowtion naturally arose aB to , what they woro all going to do, how muoh nf i tho trade ornafod by kufopcans tl\oy would | (lli'ih away, and what bon'ofit'thny would bo to i tho oniony. But this question during tho next ; few wocks will receive 1 moro domonilration as , to it* continuity, as 1,000 more Asiatics will . be added to tho Indian population of. Natal in J i a ve'y little time." I