Perambulators need great care to prevent them looking shabby. When they are -plashed with mud the mud should be washed off before it dries. Soft chamois leather should be kept for the purpose, ni plenty of water should be used. When the poli-lied or enamelled wood parts are drie

r;..;‘• offers to 'Farmers and. F arm-workers MILLIONS of ACRES of FERTILE LANDS.

The ordinary person has no means of telling a good banknote from a bad one, and the latest productions in forged notes are such exact imitations of the &mine article, that only experts can detect them. There is aerially in the bands of the public about £30,000,000 in Bank of Eng

We have this year a Very Large and Most CAREFULLY SELECTED Stock of Goods of Every Description, Suitable for Presents. These w•e are offering for Sale at EXCEPTIONALLY KEEN PRICES. We are busy this week arranging a GRAND DISPLAY of these Goods in all our Departments, and feel su

Port-Glasgow, Greenock, and West-end Green• ook, Johnstone, Kilmaoolm, largo.

!Yields Yentas Offence an N•w Year's Day John Aabtor and William Mai: both of Stephenson Street, North Shields. changed. on nomad. It Tynan:lollth. with the theft cf As from a pretend gas meter. the Tynentouth Liu pen y, front the diellmg house 10 Stephenson Street. on the let m

It been estimated that to the pyramid of amp. under modern condo: •s esprodituni of 04.5.0011.00 0 a- old lie seemsary. end the labour of 000 men fur too)) ears required. It has been calculated th it the work really restored the minims of 100.000 meo for thirty lean. The pyramid

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NMI TRADE LAST NORM. .011, Commissioners report that the imports and exports during the mouth of December, ISM were,— Umber. 390 blade; other weber, 473 loads: kerb ntonee, 140 tons; iron resin, 120 elates, 79 20 Trims Orb. 7,0211 arts . Exports.—Sairebricks and 7 was:, *hits fla