The Archive · 1897

The Heavy Rains

Once more the rain demands chief place. Eleven inches in seven days is, we are told. the rainfall of a week ago: we had estimated at eleven feet. They say we have had 30 odd fine days this year; we had forgotten the 30 and only remembered the "odd." We hear that: Foochow. has been having three thunderstorms a week, with an occasional fourth for variety.

only had one decent thunderstorm this year, and that killed off a poor farmer, who of course had been guilty either of murdering somebody, or plotting murder against somebody—anyway JO

Aolloway's Pitls.—Good Digestion.—Holloway's Pills are universally acknowledged to be the safest, sp-eeliest, and best corrective for indigestion; loss of appetite, acidity, flatulency, and nausea are a few of the inconveniences w are remedied with ease by these purifying Fey strike at the root of all abdominal ailments, they excite in the stomach a proper secretion of gastric juice and regulate the action of the liver, promoting in that organ a cop'o.1s supply of pure, wholesome bile, so necessary for digestion, These Pills remove all distention and obstruc-

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