GENERAL NEWS.
Another Estate Murder. At Djember (Java), on the 3rd inst., a young assistant named Stop, 20 years of age, employed on one of the estates of the Old Djember Mij, was stabbed to death by a native with a spear. Mr. Stap is-alleged to have in terfered with the man's wife.
SORE THROAT.
Its Cause and. Cure.:
Every sufferer from sore throat must be interested in knowing how he comes to contract this painful complaint, as he must re- joice in learning what will dure it more certainly, simply and rapidly than anything else.
All forms of sore throat, in- eluding tonsillitis, are due to germs. They float in the air, and we constantly inhale them..
Plucky American' Lad. An American lad who hails from California, has been rewarded by the Japanese Government with the Medal of Merit for saving Before acre throat can be oured, fr m drowning in the lied wood these germs must be killed. No River on March 7, last year, a drug laken into the stomach will do this. It must be a powerful Japanese boy whose parents re- sided in Tokyo formerly. The ladantireptio, dissolved in the saliva, was upset from a raft when at which, as it is swallowed, reaches tempting to cross the river with every part of the throat. In this two American boys, and his respect, nothing oan compare with rescuer, who was standing on the Wulling's Formamint, the plea bank at the time, plunged into ant-lasting throat tablet, which, the icy stream to save him.
when sucked, makes the saliva powerfully antiseptic, so that, as disease germs it meets. it in swallowed, it destroys all the
1,850,000 Divorces in America.
According to figures produced recently at the meeting of the commision to investigate the
The Doctors' Remedy. marriage and divorce laws, Recret remedy, but one which has Wulfing's Formamint is not n 1,850,000 divorces have been granted in the United States from all the leading medical pa- won the highest endorsements! during the past forty year pers and from over seven thou Twenty per cent of these divorces sand physicians, several of the were effected by changes of re-most distinguished of whom have. sidence to States having Day written articles extolling its divorco laws. Fivo million bus
morits. bands, wives, and `ehildren were
cocoernel in those proceedings. During the past year there were 100,000 divorces in America, and 70,000 children were thus do prived of one or both parents.
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It is stated from Berlin that at a meeting held at the Reichstag on the 30th ult, a "Chino-German parliamentary group was con: stituted, of the same character and
Formamint's power of curing sore No stronger testimony of threat can be desired than that written in "The Practitioner by the Chief Medical Officer of one of the largest Infectious Diseases' "I have never had a sore throat Hospitals in England. He states: myself since I began to use Wulfing's Formamint, although I suffered periodically before.'
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tain's power in the Pacific is fast trumpet blowings. Great Bri- which was heralded in with such
disappearing, and no effort is be
aims as the similar groups recent-throat, Wulfing's Formamint is school of naval thought is in though foreign aggression in Bosides caring all forms of sore ranges than heretofore. The new ing made to rehabiliate it, al- ly formed in the English and admitted by the medical press favour of bigger guns with a those waters has not shown the French Parliaments. The Chinese and profession to be an exceed-much longer range and lighter alightest sign of slackoning. The delegate, to whose initiative the ingly valuable preventivo of armour, the idea being to knock cruise of the battle cruiser New formation of the group is due, addressed the meeting. He has scarlet fever, nieasles, mumps, his lighter guns can place their
germ disenso like diptheria, the enemy out of action before Zealand as flag shower may do enlisted the support of over a whooping cough and consump projectiles on a vital spot. Jiundred members of the Left, tion. The germs causing these
some good, but nothing like including Dr. Wiemer and flerr diseases lodge in the throat, mul
what a permanent squadron Haase, chairman of the Radical tip'y there, and infect the body
K.O.Y.E.I." Officers,`·
would do. Socialist
Captain H.W.B.Thorpe, King's Parliamentary with their poison, unless they are Own Light Infantry, late Adjat Parties respectively." Invited to Visit China and Japan. harm. This is precisely what Infantry in South Africa, has killed and prevented from doing ant of the 2nd Battalion Mounted It is announced from Toronto Wulfing's Formamiut dors. that Mr. Foster, Canadian Minis-
been posted to a company in the ter of Trade and Commerce, has
Of the preventive action of turn to regimental duty. Major
1st Battalion at Singapore on re received invitations from the Wulfing's Formamint, a diatin- O.RI. Brooke, King's Own Light Chinese and Japanese Govern- guished physician writes in The Infantry, joined recently at ments to visit these countries and General Practitioner: "Wulfing's Pontefract, and took over com- to discuss trade relations. Mr Formamint
and
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The Invaluable Preventive,
General Browne D.S.0. -Major-General G. F. Browne, tonshire Regiment, has been D.S.O., colonel of the Northamp placed on retired pay on reaching he was Military Attache at Peking. the age of 62. From 1806 to 1902 The Late Col Henriques, RA of the Toyal Artillery, has died
Colonel E. N. Henriques, late!
Royal Artillery in 1872, and took part in the Perak Expedition of 1875-6, for which ho bad the melal with'slaap.
Foster will probably go to China ventive in scarlet fever, mumpe, there in succession to Major R.O.fle obtained a commission in the may be used as a pre-mand of the Depot companies at a nursing home at the age of 60, and Japan as well as to New bad sore throat and the like. Bond, D.SO, whose tour has ex- Zealand and Australia,
ecommend this line of treatment pired. atates: We are not contemplats with the utmost confidence, as ing any special Customs arrange being painless and pleasant, non- ments. Trade in both directions poison.us, provedly bactericial, between Japan and Canada is and easily carried out at any subject to most-favoured-nation time, by any person, and under treatment, while the Chinese tariff
any circumstance." is very low vast possibilities ol trade, however, are being opened up in China, of which Canada should be able to secure her rightful share."
Baren Hayashi,
In
which the Federated Malay States H&M. S. Malaya, The contrces for the battleship. recently determined to present to contruction will begin almost at the Navy has been placed, and
will be available almost a scon once. Consequently this ship
Gen, Sir James Macdonald. donald, who has just retired from the army at the age of 51, Major-General Sir James Mao.
saw a good deal of service in opting Wulling's Formamint as a
He further states: "Since ad- Uganda is his earlier years,
1900 he came to China ar Direc- had seen cases reported--ary force, and during 1003 4 he preventivo in diphtheria, I have tor of Railways to the expedition- two treated it home, and the res in command of the force in as the ordinary vessels of the Baron Hayashi, lately Ambas Hospital. There wore many the K.CIE. Sir James was at ship will be the last word in maining Offsensent to the Isolation Thibet which advanced to Lhsen, sador to Italy, will probably re contacts in connection with these the head of the Presidency Dreadnoughts, and will prove a his services being rewarded with is, in the spring of 1015. This present year's programme-tha place Baron Kato as Ambasador in London, says an exchange Formamint for use daily, and for the next two years he com- the Fleet in a period which, it is
cases, who ΠΟΣΟ all given Baron Elayashi, should not be not a single case has occurred
Brigade from 1005 to 1907, and most valuable reinforcement o confused with. Connt Hayashi, among them." It must be distically manded the Lucknow Infantry admitted, will be critical owing who, as Ambassador to the Court anderstood, however, that while Brigade, He last commanded the to the progress which shipbuild- of St. James's, concluded the Wulfing'e formamint cares sore troops in Mauritius, vacating that ing in Germany and Italy and Anglo-Japanese Alliance. He was throat, it is offered only as a post a year ago. bora in 1860, and, after studying
Austria-Hungary will have made law, entered the Foreign Office in preventive of diphtheria.
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1888. fie next held various Con- large numbers of the aristocracy given up the intention of sular appointments, and came to and many of the most distin- strengthening our native forces. London in that capacity in 1893, guished men in England, bare in the Pacific, remerke the "L. ALEXANDRA CAFE CO. being appointed, six years later, testified that Walling's Forma
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seeing pioneer, and, in a geners-Appointed from Kobe to Calcutta, tion, they have covered hundreds it is gazited in Holland that of square miles in Malaya and Mr J. Barendrecht, Dutch Consul Ceylon with the p plantations that at Kobe, has been appointed have made a thousand fortunes." Consul General 41 Caloutta.
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