The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1894-12-08 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS IN THE TREATMENT 01' OBESITY.  Our corpulent readers will he glad to learn how to positively lose two stone in about a month, w ith the greateet possible benefit in health, strength, and muscle, by a comparatively new system It is a singular paradox that the patient, returning quickly to a healthy state, with increased activity of brain, digestive, and other organs, naturally requires more food than hitherto, yet, notwithstanding this, be absolutely loses in weight one or two pounds daily, as the weighing machine will prove. Thus there is no euggastion of eta, cation. It is an undoubted succees, and the author, who has devoted years of etudy to the subject, guarantees a noticeable reduction within twenty-four hours of commencing the treatment. This is different with other diseases, for the patient, in rome cases, may go for weeks without being able to teat whether the physician hat rightly treated him, and may have derived no real or apparent improvemeut in health. Here, we repeat, the author guarantees it in twenty-four hours, the scale to be the unerring murder. The treatment aims at the actual root of obesity, so that the superfluous fat does not return when discontinuing the treatment. It is perfectly harmless. We advise our readers to call the attention of stout friends to this, because, sincerely, we think they ought to know. For theirinformation we may my that on sending four penny stamps, a book entitled '• Corpulency and the Cure' (2-el pages), containing a reprint of Preen notices from some hundreds of medical and other journals—British and foreign —and other interesting particulars, including the book containing the "recipe," can be bad poet free rote Mr F. C. Rumen, Woburn House, Store. street Bedford-square, London, W.C.  A marriage ham been arranged, and will take place the third week in January, between Major Arthur Mortlannt Murray, Royal Artillery, and Isabel, fifth &nicht« of Mr Richard Laurence Pemberton, of Hawthorn Tower. County Durham.  Ip/event the victonous entry of the Japanese into ' Pekin, always excepting the cession of Manchuria and its capital Moukden, the birthplace, so to speak, of the reigning dynasty. A rumour was current onWednestlay that a ten days'armistice had been an-ringed in order to treat for peace between China and Japan. The terms of peace mentioned as possible were the payment of an indemnity by China, and the creation of a buffer State, probably to be formed by territory se present held be Jilnsm From enquiries made, however, there is no reason to believe that the report is comma All the pre. sent indications are contrary to an arrangement taking such a form. It is expected that there will be serious trouble between Li Hung Chang and Liu Kong Yih when the latter arrives at Tientein to take over the Viceregal seek The Hunan faction, with Lin Kong Yib, is opposed lo peace. Li Hung Chang is naturally very anxious regarding future developments. Great anxiety is felt respecting the points to be selected for the landing of the Japanme army corps which Railed from Hirceillima, the movements of which are a mystery. The Chinese officials along the coast line are in a state of absolute terror. The general opinion at Shanghai is that a decisive movement by Japanese may be expected in the North before the Gulf of Pt-chili freezes. -