Something of Everything.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2116, 15 February 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

Something of Everything.

Only one, on an average, out of rfi'cry thousand married couples live <0 celebrate their golden wedding.

The average life of an Americanbuilt ship is only eighteen years, while that of British ships is twentysix years.

Turkish women do not come into control of their private fortunes until after marriage. They can then dispose of one-third of it without tho husband's consent.

J.f you associate with successful people and follow their lead you are sure to succeed; but mako a start. Your income is not too small for imP rovement.

Marshal Field said that he deemed it of tins highest importance to impress upon every young man tlio duty of beginning to save from the moment ho began to earn.

The Suffragists have at last dono something for which the approval of tlio majority of mankind will doubtless go out to thorn. They have kicked up a row at a bazaar.

A New York widow lias placed an exact reproduction of a sawmill over the gravo of her husband, who has been a timber merchant.

Over 90,000 horses are annually slaughtered in Paris for food. The carcass of ian average horse yields about 969 lb 6 of meat.

It is estimated that the Kaffirs in the diamond mines at Kimberley, South Africa, steal £250,000 worth of diamonds ill a year.

Air. James R. Keene, the american racehorse owner, has won £80,598 on the turf since April loth, thus establishing a world’s record.

General Booth’s latest project is to establish a fleet of Salvation Army steamers to carry tho army’s emigrants across the Atlantic.

“What religious persuasion are yon?” -asked the clerk at the Tottenham Police Court of a witness. “Handy man in the building trade,” was the surprising reply.

In tho town of Ivlugenberk, Germany, taxes are unknown, and this year £lO was paid to every citizen from the profits of the municipal brickworks.

A light breeze moves at about five miles an hour; a- gale hurries on at the rate of thirty or forty miles; a true storm at fifty ; and a hurricane at eighty to a hundred.

The size of policemen’s feet is proverbial, but it is surely rubbing it in when ive read of a fire where “Two constables arrived on -the scene and stamped out the flames with their feet before tliey had gained a firm hold.” Poor Robert, he isn’t safe even from the unconscious humorist.

Germany is said to he in a state of scare over the rush of Continental prodigal sons from the United States. It is feared that the dumping of enormous numbers of penniless emigrants of all nations at Hamburg and Bremen will greatly exceed the available fatted calf.

Although the sea covers threefourths of the earth’s surface, it does not provide the same proportion for man’s wants. Only about 3 per cent, of the people in the world gain their living from the sea.

A church of solid coral is a curiosity of the Isle of Make. This island, rising to 3,000 feet, is the highest of the Seychelles group in the Indian Ocean; its buildings are all of square blocks hewn from massive coral and glisten like white marble.

Paris is noted for the number of its legless cripples, who propel themselves along the street in little box trollies by means of their arms. This fact has prompted the proprietors of a French sporting journal to organise an international race for legless cripples of both sexes.

The German Emperor, while visiting Colonel and Airs. Cornwallis West at- Newlands Manor, remarked that his stay at Highcliffe had made him realise what a perfect life that of the English gentleman was. With a smile he said in some ways lie would rather be an English country gentleman than German Emperor.

Air Cornelius Bundle, of Cardiff, is the oldest railway director living. He is in -his 35th year, and takes an active part in promoting the interests, of the Rhymney Railway. He is proud of the fact that he has talked to Sir Walter Scott. Air Bundle" was born at Ivelso, where Scott received liis early .education, and tho future novelist was a frequent visitor at the Lundies’ homo.

In Denmark (says a writer in the “Nineteenth Century”) as a whole the poor are extremely well cared for, and the cost of poor relief, together with old age relief, per head of -the population, is only 5s 8d a year. In England, whore the great mass of the outdoor poor must either beg or starve, the cost of poor relief alone per liead of the population was 8s 2£d last year.

The Orient fleet, in view of the Australian mail contract, will naturally havo to be reinforced (observes the “Syren”), and we are given to understand that -between now and 1910 five new steamers, of 11,000 tons each, and with a minimum speed of 17 knots, will bo built, two more of similar dimensions and speed being constructed later —one within 18 months, and the other within six years.

The White Star Line, which some time ago fitted its Atlantic passenger steamers with submarine signalling apparatus, has decided upon a similar equipment for its cargo vessels. This step has been decided upon in consequence of the very favorable reports which havo been made by_ the commanders of those ol the AVliite Star steamships in which the apparatus is already installed.

The Berlin “Rost” records an interesting marginal correction which the Emperor made in a patriotic historical work just published .under Impend patronage. The author stated that the occupation of Kiaochiui was carried cut as the result of Kiaocliau after I had had Sam-sa Bay and AVei-hai-AYci reconnoitred. Both were

reported to me as wholly unsuitable. 1 thereupon took Baron von Richthofen’s book and a map of China, and after reading his chapter on Shan-tung I decided for tflie port of Iviao-chau, as Baron von Richthofen’s opinion of tlio ‘hinterland’ was so remarkably favorable. Bishop Anzer had nothing to do with the decision.”

The steam yacht Liberty, lately launched by 'Messrs Jlamago and Ferguson, Leith, for Mr Joseph Pulitzer, of New York, is the embodiment of luxury. The vessel, which in intended for ocean cruising, is JOOl't long, and has a bunker capacity sufficient to enable her to steam to New York and back to England without coaling. A gymnasium, 20ft square and lift high, is placed in the forward part of the ship. The owner’s library, diningroom, drawingroom, and smokingroom are all contained in a long deck-house on the shade deck. There are twelve guests’ bedrooms. Extraordinary precautions have been taken to secure absolute quiet in the owner’s sleeping apartment. There is a passage running the full length of the lower deck, so that the yacht’s crew can go from one end of the ship to tl}e other ■sHthout being seen by. the owner or his gueets.

INDIGESTION (By “Cured.”)

Food in list tin eaten in quantity, and must be digested, and bi converted into blood. N.itnii. ■ • this one of her most unpmaUve o life. During tin- process id di-ostio food is entirely ..-hanged ... corn,,os.t,o by Llio action of the Junes of the in tornal organs through which it ; In tlie month it is thorough./ '•, •- ! with the saliva. Then it is swallo;.. - • and enters the stomach. wi'f* u \ acted upon by the H'Un.ir.- j -< e., • • becomes partly lnpiehed. >701.1' the stomach it passes to the M.ml.ci ■ _* tine —which is about 18 led in >« -and there certain portions ot »hf food are liquefied by the bile ami oJn-i juices. The food thus mane hind is in a condition to he absorbed into and be come a constituent part of the blood The indigestible portion ol the local is discharged into the larger intestine, whence it is in turn expelled from the body together with other refuse matjust as certainly as that it is neeeseary to life that food must be absorbed,‘so, likewise, is it essential that the blood must be in a condition to absorb the food. Torpidity of the liver is the chief cause of nearly every case of indigestion, and when the liver is torpid the kidneys are generally sympathetically affected. The blood, which should bo transformed, cleansed and fulcreu by the kidneys and liver, then contains uric and biliary poisons, and is therefore a feeble absorbent of nutriment. This condition of the blood reacts upon the nervous system of the digestive organs, and prevents the flow and alters tlie quality of the digestive juices. The entire nerve energy of a person suffering from indigestion is weakened, owing to the contaminated condition of the blood, and the general feeling of mental and physical depression, which is experienced during an attack of dyspepsia, is due to this cause. The blood must be continuously purified by the action of the liver and kidneys, "or good digestion cannot be expected to occur. . ■ Many sufferers from indigestion ob tain temporary relief by eating predi gested foods or taking medicines, such as pepsin, which act as digestives in the intestines. A course of such treatment merely encoutrages a slothful action of the digestive organs, and causes them to become gradually weaker and less capable of performing their duty, just ill the same way that a person who takes little or no exercise becomes incapable to any demand for exertion/ Ollier sufferers irritate the digestive organs into temporary and abnormal activity by taking purgative medicines so frequently that presently the stomach and intestines refuse to act except under such irritating stimulation. The only rational and permanent cure for indigestion is to create such a condition of the blood that each corpuscle becomes hungry for food, and ready and eager to absorb it. The digestive secretions will then respond, to the demands of the blood, and the stomach and intestines will perform their work as a matter of course. When the blood is laden with jric and biliary poisons it cannot adequately absorb food, and makes but a feeble attempt to do so. I Warner’s Safe Cure is not a purgative medicine. It permanently cures indigestion and dyspepsia, simply because it restores the liver and kidneys 1,0 health and activity, so that the blood naturally becomes free from uric and biliary poisons, and ravenous to absorb nutriment freely. Nutriment is then conveyed by the blood to the nerves throughout the body. The nerves of the digestive organs being properly nourished, the organs are in a condition to do their work efficiently. Nature is merely aided in her efforts to preserve a balance in the manifold and complex processes of waste and renewal by which life is maintained. In addition to the regular 5/- and 2/9 bottles of Warner’s Safe Cure, a concentrated form of the medicine is now issued at 2/6 per bottle. Warner’s Safe Cure (Concentrated)’ is not compounded with alcohol, and contains the same number of doses as the fi/- bottle of Warner’s Safe Cure.