A WHISKEY SPONGE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 8, 23 June 1893, Page 33

A WHISKEY SPONGE.

A neat trick was played upon me by an old toper the other day writes a publican. The toper broaght in a bottle, and asked for two shillings' worth of whiskey. I drew it, and clung to the bottle while be went through his pockets after tbe silver.

Presently he put on a look of dismay, and said he had lost his money.

" All right," said I, and turned out the whiskey, and put tbe bottle on the counter.

He took the bottle and went away, saying he would be back for the whiskey presently.

He did not come back, however, bnt five minutes later I found him sitting round the corner poking something into the bottle with a stick, and after every poke turn out a thimbleful of whiskey into a cop. i seized the bottle and made an investigation. What do yon think I found 1 Why, the old rascal had forced a sponge as big as my clenched fist into the bottle, and this had soaked up a glassful of my whiskey when I filled the bottle.

Whiskey is all well in its way, but as a cure for influenza, indigestion, spasjis, general debility, weakness, lassitude, or nervousneas it cannot hold a candle to Clements' Tonic. This is proved in thousands of cases, particularly in that of Mr H. Trevarrow, Broken Hill, who writes on December 29th, 1892 :— I have much pleasure in testifying to the benefit I have received from Clements' Tonic. In the year 1887 1 suffered severely from typhoid fever, which was thea so prevalent in this district, ana although at the end of a few weeks I was considered to be cured, I could never honestly Bay that I felt the same man again. I used to wake up in the morning with a tired, languid feeling, my appetite was impaired, aod my joints stiff and swollen, and finally, being compelled to accept work in the mines to support my wife and family, I was ieized with an attack of lead poisoning which utterly prostrated me. I had all along had the advice of several doctors, who prescribed tha usual remedies, but their treatment was not doing me the slightest good, and inability to pay the fees demanded at length compelled me to dispense with their attendance. At this stage a friend advised a course of Clements' Tonic, and reluctantly I procured a bottle. The effect was wonderful. After the second dose all the tired feeling which had afflicted me for years vanisned, the swelling in tbe joints wns reduced, aod before the second bottle was finished my appetite was as good as ever it was. To crown all, the effects of the poisoning gradually disappeared from my system, and I am now able to do as good a day's work as ever I was in my life. Three bottles absolutely cured me. You may make what use you like of this letter, as it is a true statement of the facts of my case.— l am, yours gratefully, H. Tbetaebow, Sulphide street, Broken Hill, New South Wales.

Mr Gladstone has recommended Miss Margaret Stokes for a grant of a civil list pension of £100 a year to enable her to continue her valuable researches in Irish archaeology, a study to which she now intends to devote her life. Her " Early Christian Art in Ireland " may be considered a standard work on the subject, and a recent volume of hers, " Six Months in the Appenines," dealiDg with vestiges of Irißh saints in Italy, ie growing in popularity as it deserves.