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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 3 July 1885, Page 13

In no other medicinal preparation have the results of the most intelligent study and scientific inquiry been so steadily a-id progressively utilized as in Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It leads the list as a truly scientific preparation for all blood disaase*. The London Saturday Review give some more illustration? of the learning that is fostered by the English School-Board, cram examinations, One is, that " the earth's axis is a pole puc through the centre of the sun, nrhich turns it round." Another pupil stated that " the Nile is the only remarkable river in the world. It was discovered by Dr. Livingstone, and rises in Mungo Park." On ancient Britian the examinations brought out statements that Julius Caesar invaded the country 400 B.C. ; that the women " wore their hair down their backs, with torches in their hands"; and that the " Druids were an ancient people, supposed to be Roman Catholics."