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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6500, 1 June 1899, Page 4

COLDS IN THE HEAD.— In a moist changeable- climate like New Zealand Catarrh, popularly, known, as a cold in 'Ihf i head, ia '. a . disease' of great frequency in tin : winter Beason. ' The danger of Catarrh is its tendency to attack the chest and pass ink bronchitis or Pneumonia. SPENCER VINCENT'S "BENJAMIN GUM is a tried remedy for Coughs, Colds, and Influenza, and it protects the lungs from inflammation. Price Is 6d and 2s Gd. The population of the British Empire and the United States — that is, the AngloSaxon people — outnumbers the combined population of Russia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Austria-Hungary, with all their colonies and dependencies, by fiftynine millions. The territory occupied by the Anglo-Saxons nearly equals that of all the other countries named put together. In 'wealth the Anglo-Saxons are very nearly equal to the other nations, and in yearly earnings they are equal. Combined with the United States, Great Britain takes more than three-quarters of the sea-carrying power of the world. If England and the United States were allies, then the hostile warehips of France, Russia, Germany and Italy would each have to catch thirty-seven Anglo-Saxon merchant ships if they wanted to stop our supplies. A bill-posting machine, which sticks bills ov. w-.lls, even as high as. soft, without the use of ladder cr paste-pot, is doing successful , 'work in Paris. Theatrical people are delighted vrith it.