MISCELANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1402, 19 May 1884, Page 3

MISCELANEOUS.

This is from 'Truth:—" Ladies maids have their feelings like other folk.' A week or two ago one of our best peeresses gave her maid a month's notice, accompanying the warning by a smack on the face. The maid said nothing at the time, but brooded over her wrongs. On the day that her month was up, after she had received her month's wages and her boxes had been placed upon a cab, she. went upstairs and commenced to ' do ' her mistress's hah 1 . Having deftly fastened it to the back of the chair, she calmly proceeded to administer a series of slaps to the somewhat highly colored cheeks which were ready to her hands. Then, with a low courtesy she took herself off."

The Franchise Bill has passed one critical stage without a division ; but it has many dangers to encounter, and few are sanguine that it will appeal* upon the Statute-book this session. Owing t° the exuberant oratory of the recess, the public haye become familiarised with the main, features of a bill which otherwise would hive startled not'alarmed them. It increases th ft electors of the United Kingdom from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000, the voting po wer °f England being j n _ creased by 13,00",000 votes, thafc o f Scotland V,y200,000, andthat of lrei an d by 400,000 — in the latter case cousjd er . ably more than doubling it. Thep U h. lie concessions made to Iceland, b o th in regard to voters and the retention of an excessive number of members, are so marked as to excite <i very sron^ral suspicion that the Parnellite obstruction has been placated by a bribe. The public seek consolation in .the fact that the Home Rulers would manage to elect 70 or 80 members under the existing franchise, and that they cannot put in more than 90 under the new roll. Mr Goschen has mode the most powerful speech against the proposed leap in the dark. He said he was astounded that in the redistribution of seats Ireland was still to be secured a number of seats to which she was not entitled. If the bill were lost, he doubted if the Liberal party was prepared to go to the country on th» cry that English boroughs were to be disfranchised in order to keep undiminishedthe-phalanx of Irish members. He chnuenily urged the House to see that the light's of minorities were secured. .

THE BAD AND WORTHLESS

Are never imitated or counterfeited. This is especially true of a family medicine, and it is positive proof that the remedy imitated w of the highest value. As soon as it had been tested and proved by the whole, world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and most valuable family medicine on earth, many imitations sprung up and began to steal the notices in which the press and the people of the Country had expressed the merits of H. 8., and iv every way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff instead, expecting to make money on the credit of the good name of H.B. Many others, stalled nostrums put up in similar style toll. 8., with variously|devised names in which the word "Hop," or " Hops " were used in a way to induce people to be.lieve they were the same as Hop Bitters. All such pretended remedies or eui*es, no matter what their style or name is, and especially those with the word "Hop" or ' Hops' intheirnameorin any way connected with them or their name, are, imitations or counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none of them. Use nothing but genuine American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster of green Hops on the white label, and Dr. Soule's name blown in the glass. Trust nothing else. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing in imitations or counterfeits.