THOUSANDS OF GOLDEN SOVEREIGNS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 16, 18 August 1893, Page 7

THOUSANDS OF GOLDEN SOVEREIGNS

Are pouring in to the relief of the Queensland ruff irers. Mr F G Gorrick, proprietor Readymoney Boot Fac'ory, Chrietcharch writes :— " One bottle Golden Remedy No 2 was effectual in restoring my son to health, and it is a pleasure to recommend this great remedy for ail similar cases of decline." Mr R. Robertson, of Christchurcb, writes :—": — " I had been drinking hard for two months. I took Golden Remedy No 1, and at the end of four days I had no desire for either the drink or the pipe. I now sleep like a child and eat like a man." Send for circulars on cures. Box 80 Dunediu . Deafness Permanently Cubed. — A Gentleman who oared himself of Deafness and Noises in the Head, of many years' standing by a new method, will be pleased to send full particulars, with copies of testimonials, etc., for two stamps. The most succe'sful treatment over introduced. Address, Hebbebt Clifton 51, Upper Kenniagtoa Lane. London, S.B. Lexicographers of other days were notoriously at fault with their derivations, and an amusiog instance is afforded in the new volume of tbe late Bishop Wordiworth.e "Annals of My Life" (published by Longman*), with which plausible etymologise may be concocted. The learned Poraon was staying, it appears, at one time with a well-known Caoon of Ely named Jeremiah King. One day at dinner, when they bad got into discussion upon qaeatiom of ety. mology, Porsoa gave a derivation which King considered to be co far* fetched as to be quite ridiculous. " Ton might *s well say," eaid King, " that my name is connected with cucumber." Possibly there was a cucumber on the table. "And so it is," snid Porson. "How so?" asked King, "Why, thus: Jeremiah King, by contract! >n Jerry King ; Jerry King, by contraction and metathesis, Gherkin, and gherkin, we known, is a cucumber pickled." Porsoo's definition of the meaning of tbe word gherkin is almost as erroaeoas, it will be observed, as bis playful derivation. Bince a gherkin is not a pickled cucumber, but a small cucumber of a particular variety commonly used for pickling.