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Western Star, Issue 1116, 15 January 1887, Page 4

Most of us know tbe story of the American who, visiting some provincial museum on the Continent, was shown a, rusty blade which, he was assured, ■was the identical knife used by the brave Charlotte when she finished the the bloodthirsty Jean Paul. “ Where’s the fork ?” aslied the American. He must have been twin brother to, if not the self-same American globetrotter of whom I heard lately at Candy in Ceylon. He was visiting a Buddhist temple, and the priest showed him a lamp in which burned a sacred fire which,' they said, had not been extinguished for 2,000 years, “Is that so?” asked the American. “It is,” replied the priests. Then the Ameri can stooped down, pursed his lips together, and with one vigorous puff xtinguished the sacred fire. “ I guess it’s out now he remarked quietly as he walked away.—Correspondent of‘lllustrated London Hews. Holloway’s rills—The Great Need.—The blood is the life and on its purity depends our health, if not our existence. These pills thoroughly cleanse this vital fluid from al containinations, and by that power,,trcngthen and invigorate the whole system, I cahhily stimulate sluggish organs, repress over-excitec action, and establish order of circulation and secretion throughout every part of the bodv The balsamic nature of Hoi 1 way’s Pills commends them to the favour of debilitated and nervous constitutions, which they soon resuscitate. They dislodge all obgtiuc'ions, both in the bowel's and elsewhere, and a-**, on that account, much sought after tor promo til g regularity of act ion in voiina females and delicate persons who arc naturally weak, nr who from some cause have become so. Prince George ©f Leuchtcnbcrg, an officer in the Kussiaii'anny, is now mentioned as a probable candh atofor the throne of Bulgaria in ply.co.pf Nicholas of MingreUu,