The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-01 00:00:00

THE CO•OPERATIVE CREDIT BANK. BILE, WIND, AND INDIGESTION.
People have been often warned against trusting their WONDERFUL RESTORATION AFTER
money to the Co-operative Credit Bank, telling them that Is YEARS' SUFFERING.—S—It is with
pleasure I inform you of the wonderful benefit I have
if they did so they would very likely not get the 18 per
cent. promised in the proepectus, and certainly not the received from Dr. KING's Dasnindos Ann QUININE principal. The prediction has been verified. Mr. find.
grove, of Exeter, placing faith in the prospectus, not only Pixus after 15 years of suffering. I tried every other
consented to become the manager of the Lteter branch of remedy for Biliousness and a weak Digestion. My
the bank, but invested £l7O, became • trustee of the own most clever doctor said I should never be cured
insurance reserve fund, and advanced money to the sole without Blue Pills or Calomel; but I dared not take
proprietor and manager. Richard Banner Oakley, from Mercury, it always weakens me so. I again say I
time to time. Last week Oakley sent Mr. Snelgrove • have tried all advertised Bilious Pills but they haV e
cheque for 1:20 towards paying off the debt, with the served me as Mercury does. I feel'that Dr. King's
singular result that this cheque of • banker was dis-
honoured. A private execution was then put into the Pills have 60 wonderfully restored me that I publicly
bank, when the accountant discovered that of £40,000 acknowledge it I can now drink Ale or Stout, and a
received by Oakley from the confiding public there few months back could not take either. I ardently
remained in the strong room, safes, and desks of the bank beg every one I know to give them a trial, they are so
the enormous sum of Ils. Ild. There is not the slightest mild sad gentle,
doubt, the Lord Mayor was told on Friday, that the said
JOHN ASH.
confiding public will looe ev..ry penny of this .C 40,000. The Ash House, Surrey.
wonder is, that people should be fools enough to put their
Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors all over the
money into such • concern.
• World, in boxes at Is. lad., 2s. fid., and 4a 6d. each.

THE VALUE OF SPIDERS.
It is not very generally known that spiders are good
for other things than catching flies and frightening
hysterical young ladles and cheering prisoners in their
dungeons. SOITIe of our lest scientific work is done by
their help, for the delicate cress hairs in the telescopes of
surveying instruments are fine threads taken from a
specially selected species of spider known to produce
threads of excellent quality and fineness. It has been
suggested that the spider should be utilised as a silk-
maker: but the monopoly of the silk-worm seems un-
assailable. The web is very strong and beautiful; but
there is not enough of it to make the collection of it for
general purposes Pay, though a pair of gloves and a pair
of stockings have been known to be made of it. But for
the particular purpose above mentioned the spider is
without a rival. Sometimes he sulks, or tries to strike
work, but in that case there is an easy remedy. He is
taken up and tossed from hand to hand, and his own
instinct of self-preservation never fads to produce the
family repo in the transit. The preservation of the thread
for use is by no means so difficult as one might suppose.
A wire is bent into a hairpin shape so that the distance
between the two prongs is rather greater than the
diameter of the telescopes to be fitted. You take your
spider and fix one end of his thread on the wire, and then
as he hangs and spins, with • vain hope of reaching the
earth, you keep turning your wire, and winding him up.
By this means you get your coils all in the right lengths,
and there is nothing more to do but gum them to the .ire
and lay them aside till you want to use them. The spider
is himself by nature so mathematically inclined that we
are sure he would be only too glad to knew the service
which he thus renders to science in which mathematics
have so large a share.