No. 434. Second Week in Quarter. Registered for Transmission Abroad. Price One Penny. ================================================================= PHOTOGRAPHIC FRONTISPIECES for ALBUMS, Price 6d. (post free on receipt of 7 stamps), at HODGSON's, "HERALD" Office, Penrith. __________________________________________________________________________ WILSON, JESPERS, AND CO. Ready-Made and Bespoke TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS 1 & 2, Middlegate, Penrith. GENTLEMEN'S READY - MADE CLOTHING. Depot for the Best Makes of SEWING MACHINES, Viz. WHEELER and WILSON's, HOWE's, and THE BRITANNIA. __________________________________________________________________________ PATENT STARCH _______________ PARSONS, FLETCHER AND CO.'s THIS Superior Article is strongly recommended to Laundresses and Heads of Families, by whom a trial is respectfully solicited. For its PURITY, STRENGTH, and QUALITY, it has never been surpassed. It does not require boiling, and is guaranteed to be entirely free from acid, so injurious to linen. Owing to its careful manufacture, it imparts to muslin, collars, lace, &c., a brilliant, glossy, firm, and elastic finish. It may also be USED WITH COLD WATER ONLY, By mixing to a smooth paste, and adding water in the proportion of a pint to two ounces of starch. When made in this way, the linen should be ironed soon after starching, to ensure a beautiful gloss. To be obtained of all respectable Grocers. Starch Works: Gravel Lane, Southwark, S.E.; and 22, Bread-street, Cheapside, E.C., London. N.B. - Consumers are requested to ask for " E L E P H A N T S T A R C H " __________________________________________________________________________ BIBLE SOCIETY'S DEPOT. AT THOMAS HODGSON'S, BOOKSELLER, &c., 53, King Street, Penrith. __________________________________________________________________________

>>N.B. - Consumers are requested to ask for " E L E P H A N T S T A R C H "<< ok had to google that one, turns out it is made from a yam! Yam, Elephant (Amorphophallus campanulatus) C'mon, admit it, how many of you had visions of a concoction that they used somehow on elephants to keep their ears stiff??