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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5964, 27 July 1912, Page 1

PARENTS STARTLED. " My wife and I were quite startled by hearing our little girl cough a real eroupy cough," writes R. A. Young, Cuclal, N.S.W. " I at once got a bottle of Chamberlain/s Cough Remedy and gave it to her. In the morning there ?"us no sign of croup and her cough rapidly left her."— Sold by H. Bowie and J. G. Blackie, Lawrence ; T. Broderick, Waitahuna, and Cotton and Co., Waipori. Snail races is a now sport among French clerks with nothing to do. The head of a certain Government ollice in 'Paris had noticed for , some tiiiio that the clerks weiv not so diligent as they aught to be. Remonstrance having proved vain, the chief, to ascertain the cause of the trouble, went into the room and told the. clerks to open their desks, with the result that several _dozen snails were revealed to view. " What could this mean ? He found that as the clerk® had no time to indulge'their sporting proclivities at 'Longchaimp, Auteuil and Yiecnnies, thev had taken to organising races with snails in tlic office. In the report which has boen :lrawn up the Government is asked to visit the offenders with severe penallies, as "it is necessary that a stand should bo invade against the fatal taste for racing and the propagation oi games of chance in our offices." A daring pickpocket in Pittsliurg, Pemnsylvjamia, h|a« relieved! a policeman of his watch. Tor influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d,