Scraps.
What Saved Him.
A young wife had just settled in her
new home, All seemed fair and prowis-
ing, for she did not know her husband
was a drunkard, But one night he
came home at a very late hour, and
much the worse for liquor. When he
staggered into the jhouse his wife, who
was very much shocked, told him he
was sick and must lie down at once;
and in a moment or two he was comfort-
nuble on the sofa in a drunken sleep.
iis face was a reddish purple, and
altogether he was pitiable-looking ob-
ject,
The doctor was sent for im haste,
and mustard applied to the patient's
feet and hands. When the doctor came
and felt his pulse and examined him,
and found that he was only drunk, he
said :
*‘He will be all right in the morn-
ing.”
But the wife insisted that he was very
sick, and that severe remedies must be
used.
“You must shave hishead and apply
blisters,’ she urged, ‘‘or I will send for
some one who will,”
The husband's head was according-
ly shaved close, and blisters were ap-
plied.
The patient lay all night in a drunken
sleep, and notwithstanding the blisters
eating into his flesh, it was not until
near morning that he began to beat about
disturbed by pain.
About daylight he woke up to the most
uncomfortable consciousness of blistered
agonies,
“What does this mean ?’’ he said,
putting his hands to his bandaged
head.
“Lie still ; you mustn’t stir,’
wife ; ““you have been sick.”
“I am not sick.”
“0, yes you are ; you have the brain
fever. We have worked with you all
night.”
“I should think you had,’ groaned the
poor victim. ‘“What’s the matter with
my feet,”
“They are blistered."
“Well, I am better now:
the blisters—do,”
ously.
He was in a most uncomfortable
state—his head covered with sores, and
his hands and feet still worse,
“Dear,”’ he said, groaning, “If I
should ever get sick in this way again,
don’t be alarmed and send for a doctor,
and above all, don’t blister me again.”
“0, indeed I will! All that saved
you were the blisters. And if you
have another such spell I shall be more
frightened than ever ; for the tendency,
I am sure, is to apoplexy, and frem the
next attack you are likely to die, unless
there are the severest measures used.”
He made no further defense. Suffice
is fo say that he never had another
attack.
The editor wrote that “he was a
member of an old family of musicians,”
and when it appeared in the paper it
read “a member of an old family of
nuisances.”” One assertion was just as
true as the other ; but the editor nearly
swore,
The Washington Capital remarks:
“Some of our slow subscribers, who
may not find our paper in their mail,
can understand that its absence is due
to their unremitting kindness,’
Josh Billings has found one thing that
money cannot buy, and that is the wag
of a dog’s tail. It is an honest ex-
pression of opinion on the part of the
dog.
A drunken man at Fort Worth,
Texas, entered the circus and patted
the big lion on the head. The arm he
has left will do to turn a hand-organ.
“What is so rare as a day in June ?”
Well, now and then a day in April is
decidedly under-done, and some of the
March days are raw,
Next we shall have a coat tail flirta-
tion code. Having the tails covered
with mud will mean, ““I don’t like her
father.”
The girl with the empty pocketbook
is the one that looks into jewelry
windows most,
A Gama Estate.
The private estate of the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg, which will pass to the
Duke of Edinburgh, affords some of the
best shooting in Burope, for the sport
in the Duke’s Thuringian forests is
nowhere surpassed in Germany. Every
species of game bred is to be found
there ; but the wild boar are the great
feature, and the Thiergarten in which
theses animals are preserved is as large
a8 an ordinary deer-park, and is enclosed
by a strong and high stockade, the
whole being left entirely wild. There
are numerous dens among the brush-
wood, which the boars have themselves
coustrueted, and there are feeding-
places, to which the keepers go twice a
day to scatter food. The animals are
summoned by the blowing of a horn,
but they are so regular in their habits
that they are usually to be found in the
neighborhood of the pens at the ap-
pointed time, There are about a dozen
wild-boar preserves in various parts of
he Duchy.
* said his
take off
he pleaded pite-
Horticultural.
Cultivating Tuberoses.
Tuberose bulbs, in order to preserve
their germs, which will perish in a low
temperature if accompanied with mois-
ture, need to be kept dry and warm. The
temperature should not fall below 65,
and near 70 is better. A drawer ina
warm room is a good place to keep them
in the best condition, Take the old
bulb and remove each small one separatl-
ly. Sometimes the young bulbs need
another season's growth to be strong
enough to bloom, A bulb never blooms
but once. A good plan in this climate
would be to start the bulbs about the
first of February, in four-inch pots, or
tin cans will do, as they are not to be
set inthe window. Set them on a high
shelf back or near the kitchen stove, or
other warm place, and water just
enough to keep them from drying out.
When the leaf bulbs begin to start, give
a little more water; turn at the
side of the pot, never on the bulb,
When the season becomes warm, trans-
plant to the open ground-—being care-
ful to disturb them as little as possible
in transplanting. I have treated bulbs
in this way that gave me blossoms on
the Fourth of July, and during the
season thirty-three blossoms on the
stem.
How to Keep Cut Flowers.
A reporter found his way into a florist’s
yesterday afternoon, and feasted his
eyes and nose on the beautiful buds that
lay in bouquets there,
** How long will this clove pink last ?"’
he inquired,
* Oh, with care, a week or ten days.
A solid rosebud will last about the same
time. There's agood deal in knowing
haw to keep flowers fresh.”
** Do you use any preparations ? Any
salt in the water, ammonia, or the
like 27
““ Not at all, That's all nonsense, All
that is necessary to keep flowers fresh is
to keep them moist and cool, If people,
instead of dipping flowers in water, would
simply wrap them up in a wet news-
paper, they would find that they would
keep far fresher over night. JA wet
towel or napkin would be two heavy and
crush the blooms too much, and, besides,
it would allow the moisture to evapor-
atetooeasily. Seethat box of buds? They
were packed in Boston on Monday in
wet paper, and you might say they are
fresher now than when they cameoff the
bush.’
* Why do you send clear to Boston for
rose buds ? Haven't you got the same
kind of roses here ?"
“Exactly the same Kind,
won't grow so nicely here,
Boston bud, for example,
beside a native bud.
ly the same variety, both being Bon
Silenes. But the stem of the Boston
bud is far longer and stouter than that
of the native bud. The colors are far
more brilliant and the bud is more dur-
able. When the stem is long and thick
we don’t have to use so much wire to
strenghten it, and that makes it much
more convenient,"
“What advantage has Boston over
Cleveland in the raising of roses ?”’
“It’s the climate, It is true that it
isn’t so warm there as here, and it hasn't
been extremely sultry here this winter,
But temperature in a green-house is
easily enough regulated, as well as the
quantity of moisture in the air, and the
soil is made just so rich with all garde-
ners, 1t can’t be because they are any
more skillful in raising flowers there
than we are here, for I know of garden-
ers who have come here from the
East and expected to do the same things
they did there, and failed completely,
Even in New York the florist sell ten
Boston buds to one of their own growth,
and it's just so all over the cuntry. You
know the more culture there is bestow-
ed upon a rose the more double it be-
comes—that is the more of these sta-
mens turn into petals. Well I suppose
that as Boston is credited with
possessing an atmosphere of ‘culcha,’
that has something to do with it,”
or
but they
Take this
and put i
They are of exact-
A A
Scientific and Useful,
The largest aerolite in the world is in
the British museum. It weighs nearly
two tons. The largest one in the
Smithsonian, at Washington, weighs
less than a ton,
Hickory, dogwood and persimmon,
which, a short time ago, were aimost
worthless in North Carolina, is now in
demand at five dollars a cord, for saw-
ing into blocks for the purpose of man-
ufacturing them into power-loom shut-
ties, :
The Journal de Pharmacie says that
a mucilage composed as follows will
unite wood, porcelain or glass:
ounces of gum arbic in strong solu
tion, 20 grains of solution of alumina
dissolved in two-thirds of an ounce of
water,
An English experimentalist finds
that for every pound of mineral matter
assimilated by a plant an average of
2000 pounds of water is absorbed. As
the French observatory of Mont Sourit
was found that in rich soil 727
sounds of water passed through the
roots of wheat plants for every pound
of grain produced, while in a very poor
soil 2693 pounds passed through the
roots for each pound of grain,
THE PULSE OF ANIMALS. —In horses
the pulse at rest beats forty times, in an
ox from fifty to fifty-five,
and pigs about seventy to eighty beats
per minute, It may be felt wherever a
Inrge artery crosses a bone, for instance.
It is generally examined in the horse
on the cord which crosses over the bone
of the lower jaw in front of its curv-
ed position, or in thebony ridge above
the eye, and in cattle over the middle of
the first rib, and in sheep by placing the
hand on the left side, where the beating
of the heart may be felt, Any material
viriation of the pulse from the figures
given above may be considered a sign of
disease, If rapid, hard and full, it isan
indication of high fever or inflamma-
tion ; if rapid, small and weak, low
fever, loss of blood or weakness, If slow,
the probabilities point to brain disease,
and if irregular to heart troubles, This
is one of the principal and sure tests of
an animal,
One of the most ingenious adaptations
of electricity, recently introduced, is
that by which machinery, when in mo-
tion, may be instantly stopped-—as in
the case of an engine, A wire rope,
coiled around the stem of the throttle
valve of the engine, carries a weight
which is held in place by a rest, and
the whole arrangement is such that the
passing of an electric current along a
wire releases this and causes the weight
to fall, The tension thus thrown upon
the wire ropes acts upon the throttle
valve, cuts off the supply of steam and
consequently stops the
Buttons, with wire connections, are
placed in diffepest parts of the works,
and on pressing any one of these the
passage of an electric current aets as
above mentioned. In every factory
these electric buttons can be placed in
every room, or several of them in a
large room, as may required,
Should any one happen to be caught by
the machinery, the simple pressing of a
button in the most distant part of the
factory will quickly stop the whole
machinery,
machinery,
be
s— -
Gas for Nothing at a Profit.
Seieutific prophets have foretold that
a day will come when the “residual
products” resulting from distilling coal
will valuable as to reduce the
price of gas to a mere nothing. That
good time has not arrived, it must be
confessed, but if we may believe the con-
fident assertions of a gentleman at
Chester there already in existence
an appliance which goes a long way to-
ward fulfilling these predictions, He
claims to know a peculiar description of
oven for making coke, which, without
the help of a high chimney, enables those
who use it to drive steam engines with-
out any expense for fuel. Every ton of
coal consumed in the oven yields coke
worth seven shillings and tar and am-
monia worth 4 shillings, in addition to
14,000 feet of gas, If, therefore, the first
two products are sold, the price—11 shil-
lings—more than pays for the slack coal
from which they were derived, as well
as for labor, wear and interest on the
capital sunk in the plant. The manu-
facturer consequently gets 14,000 feet of
gas for nothing from every ton of coal
subjected to the process, and this he
can use instead of fuel to generate
steam. It is certainly a bold claim to
put forward, but it may, perhaps, be
justified by the present prices of coke,
ammonia and tar. If, however, these
ovens come into general use, the market
value of such prodiects will assuredly
fall heavily in proportion to the immense
enhancement of supply, amd in
that case the prices fetched would
not cover the cost of materials and
labor,
be so
is
It Took.
n——-——
A Bowery dealer in clothing got hold
of a chap the other day who had a
knowing look in his eyes, and who
strongly objected to paying $7 for acoat
which he had tried on, **Vhell, I doan
say dotit is worth seven dollar,’’ replied
the dealer. *“Then why do you ask it #”
“Vhell, my eyes haf got so poor dot
anypody can pass badt money on me
now, If I sold dot goat for seven
dollar I should expeet to git one doilar
in gounterfeit money and two dollars in
silver dot vhas plugged oop.” “I guess
1’H take it,” said the stranger, after a
pause, and he scraped the bottom of his
pockets and hinted his wallet over for
bills. “Dot is right, youpg man, and I
know you wouldn’t sheat au ole man
mit sore eyes,” The coat was bundled
up, and the stranger, disappeared in a
lively manner, The dealer turned to
the cash on the counter, carefully ex-
amined each piece, aud there was a
heavenly smile on his countenance as
he ‘chuckled out: “Only 90 cents of
badt money, und some of dot blenty
savings bank 1"
For The Young.
The Two Ponles.
Mattie and Charles were brother and
sister, Their father was a well-to-do
farmer and they were Lis only children,
They loved and were interested in every
creature on the farm, but best of all they
ved the horses. When littie, nothing
delighted them so much as to be
mounted upon Dubin’s back and ride
up and down the lanes, As they grew
older they ventured more, and by the
time they were twelve years old no one
wus better trained in the use of horses
than they, Mattie especially delighted
in this amusement, and from a child up
told all her sorrows and troubles to these
trusted and faithful friends. She and
her brother often asked their father to
give them each a pony. Their father
would laugh and say, ‘Tut, tut, chil
dren ; wait until you know how to man-
age a horse before you want one, Be-
sides all that I have is yours,” Still
they each wanted one for their “‘very
own,” as Mattie expressed it.
One morning when Charles was fifteen
and Mattie fourteen, their father called
them to come out to the barn, There
in the stalls stood twe of the most benu-
tiful ponies you ever saw, one as white
milk and the other as black as
coal,
“01! father,”
“what beauties |
“Yes, they are,” raid Mr,
‘“as this is Mattie’s birthday,
would like a pony. and as vours is
coming so soon, I know it would add to
pleasure if I should give you yours
I think you are both
as a
they both exclaimed,
Dunn ;
I thought
she
her
at the same time,
able to take care
may Soowflake and Jet lead you always
in pleasant paths. Here j
and let me see you gallop off.
Two more happy mortals you never
saw, Charles did not say much, but
father knew he felt as deeply as
Mattie, who hugged first her father and
then her pony. ‘‘There, there, that
is enough; jump on now,” said their
father, while something glistened
eyes, and in another instant they
down the lane and soon sight,
Such a ride they had, and this was the
beginning of many delightful
Mattie would have lived upon !
if it had been possible : hill
or ditches were no obstacles in her path
for Snowflake carried her safely
over them without fear. The neighbors
used to say to Mr. Dunn : “Mattie will
kill herself yet, if get rid of
Snowflake, Why, in crossing
thie field, she never even took down the
bars but went overthem. 1 expected
to see her dashed to pieces, but before |
could say a word she was out of sight.”
Mattie told all her secrets to her pet,
and, as when a little child,
understood her, and,
seemed to,
In the course of a few years the dear
father died, andthings did not go on as
prosperously as before, They were in
want of many things, and the winter
was coming on, One thing after an-
other, even Jet had to to be sold. Mut-
tie would jog along through the wonds
and tell her sorrows to Snowflake,
ing comforted in the belief that she symn-
pathized with her, But there came a
day : a very sad day, when Charles said
to her: “Mattie, Snowflake must be
sold.” “Sell Snowflake! She had
never thought of such a thing as that.
Must it be?” Yes, there was no help
for it. It was selfish in her to refuse it,
80 with aching heart she took her last
ide. Charles led her away, and the
purchase money bought many a comfort
for them and their dear mother, who
was now growing feeble. Mattie was
comforted in the thought that her sor-
row brought blessings to others, al-
though she could never see a white horse
or think of Snowflake even without ex-
periencing a chokeing sensation and
having her eyes dimmed with tears,
Reading Sound.
of a horse now, and
Hump on now,
his
iN Hs
wee
out of
journeys,
wrseback
8, stone walls
BOW,
vou don’t
to-day,
declared she
indeed, Snowflake
feel
Reading sounds by sight has been
highly successful, and has long ago been
introduced with the best results into
this country. The idea has occurred to
a foreign teacher of the dumb to photo-
graph the movements of the lips when
articulating the different sounds which
go to make up ordinary speech. It will
easily be imagined that the model
chosen for the pictures must be some
one whose lips will give expressive
action. But once potographed, the pie-
tures can be multiplied by the thousand,
and can be used as alphabets for our af-
flicted fellows all the world over, It is
suid that the pictures are so well adapted
to their purpose, that anyone can sed at
a glance what sound is indicated by
each lip-movement portrayed.
Stukje tens oan approciate wolhig but
according to its money value. Money
with them is everything. Poisoned
food, if it has money in it, is preferred
to wholesome food. Money is good and
necessary in its proper place, but there
is that which money eannot buy, and
compared with it is worse than ‘dress,
Truth and uprightness are above price.
t buy them. It matters
not. ch money a man may have,
if hes not true and upright, he is not
worthy of respect,
Agricultural.
—
Market Chicks.
There is always a ready sale for early
chicks, the prices this season for those
intended as broilers (weighing about
one pound) ranging from forty to eighty
; bint sizes wre only in de-
mand 10 We early part of Lhe season,
those weighing about two pounds each
being more desirable during the summer,
Aboiit the 1st of May is the period for
broilers, or during “asparagus time,”
farmers express it; but all
times fowls bring good prices,
There are several points to be observed
in raising fowls, the profit being more
or less according to the method of breed-
upon the kind of
is one of the
purposes,
Coit such
# Lhe at
Much depends
The Brahma
have for general
asthat breed grows to a large size, lays
but while it possesses
is unfitted for
when
ing.
fowl used,
best we
well, and is bardy,
many good qualities, it
producing broilers, as itis “leggy”
dues not readily fatten
until it is nearly matured, A cross of
the Leghorn on the Brahma of
the best that can be wade if early puls
lets are to be kept for laying in the fall,
as such combines the quick
growth of the with the
vigor and bardiness of the Brahma, and
though a
proper weight
very youu, and
i one
a Cross
Leghorn size,
tittle
the broilers so produced, littl
slower in reaching the
are fine-boned, plump and attractive in
appearance, possessing rich, yellow skin
and legs, Iu crossing Leghorn with the
large breeds uniformity of color can be
ghoin cocks
Bi
thorn cocks with light
secured by wating brown La
othin or dark ahma
Brahma Cochin hens,
{(} breeds there is nothing
the
most saleable
months,
fmt ean compare with Plymouth
tocks for producing the
age of
and younger ones us broilers are
Beis
and active,
ple
bi int
Rock
chicks up to the three
f Xt @le
lent, very
hey
Liatdy, good it
grow fast and
Ameri Ne
the Ply-
hardiness,
TARErs
make a
{he
{ Wyandotte)
ump Carcass, An
rivals
in all qualities except
and have yellow stage of
Plymout th |
le Ks al every
legs of
growth while the
a 4 Le
yellow |
to |
%
they |
losely bred.
turning
ol 1H
ds ark,
only
a new
Tock pull le is are
afterward, The tion
that
are at the pre
tiem is bing reed
S11 Lime tno «¢
I'he Langshan, a new breed, is as fine in
plumage, size, laying qualities
flesh as one but, having
dark legs, many buvers obiect to them.
The ot
time honored prejudice,
and {
would wish ;
jection, however, is owing toa
for the Lang-
shan and Houdan (a dark-legged fowl)
are superior for the table to nearly all
the yvellow-legged breads. A cross of
the g with the breeds gives
a fowl with fuller breast and finer bape,
which should be encouraged, as the
sinaller the amount the better
For market chicks,
the broilers should come from the
ane larg ge
of offal
the quality, there.
fore,
Leghoru-Bralima cross, the larger
from the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandoties,
Houdas and Langshans, while the
adults should be produced from Brah-
mas or Cochins crossed with the Ply-
mouth Rock or Houdan., The best
capons are a cross of the colored Dor-
king and dark Brahma, and the largest
fowls are usually a cross of the Houdan
and Brahma the first season, and the
produce mated with Plymouth Rocks
the season. Black Spanish,
Hamburgs and Polish, though excellent
layers, are inferior as market chicks. |
If success breeders should |
be careful in selecting the breeds most
suitable, as it is more important thas
any other feature in the manage-
ment,
sizes
second
is desired
Farm Hints.
Texas will net $13,500,000 from the
increase to her sheep farms this spring.
A young man in Otsego county, gained
£125,000 on the rise in hops within the
last year.
The wild duchess, of Geneva, a royal
shorthorn, was recently sold at Chicago
for $21,000,
Prof. Armold admits that brewers’
grain will stimulate a large flow of milk,
but says there.is no butter in them,
A sheep pasture in Dimmitt and Webb
countiss, Tex., contains 300,000 acres
and feeds 300,000 sheep, it is believed
to be the largest in the world.
A successful ochardist says that if he
were to live over again he would trim
histrees higher, and pasture his orchards
with sheep, in place of ploughing or
mulching.
A Florida man has grown a radish
that was over 2 feet long, 18 inches in
dinmeter, and weighed fifteen pounds
also a collard that measured 4 {eet 8
inches across the top,
The Kentucky Importing company
sold thirty-six shorthorns of recent im-
portation at an aggregate of $14,005.
The highest price for a single animal
was $1000,
Hoeing, and the frequent stirring of
the surface of the soil, are important in
and | dry weather, Those parts of the garden
that are most frequently cultivated show
the best results,
Squashes a and all kinds of vires iow
> culture ;
bugs, with a good sprinkling of insect
powder,
Early potatoes lmply early planting.
No matter what variety is used, early
planting must precede early crops.
And cultivation must be timely to
secure best results, As letween ‘evel
culture and hillings the advantages can
be determined by tral. On laud too
moist for potatoes ridge planting will
supply partial eorrection of the fault, but
thorough drainage will be a better way,
In any case, early planting is essential is
ant early erop is desired,
GERARIUMS, -
better adapted for bedding purposes in
our hot, dry summers, than the gera-
nium, It flowers profusely during the
heat and drouth of summer, when most
bedding plauts suffer or are dried up,
They are admirably adapted for bloom-
ing, and for baskets
show is wanted they are withou
The newer double varieties are oguaily
as fine for bedding as the single, with
the additional value of the flower lasting
two or thaee times as long when cut:
this maker ihe for boii.
quets or cut flowers,
No class of plants are
OF Yass . Well a
wm very desirable
CONSTITUTION OF ALI
Alluvial soils are made
posed vegetable substances, the
sediment and
from neighboring hills,
rivers and streams are alluvial soils and
make a rank growth, but {
on such soils
VIAL DOILS,
decor
up of
river
down
loys of
materials washed
The val
hie trees grown
are not so hardy
the
Ciay
A
in various
or so
fruitful as
with more sand,
vegetable mould.
are trees grow n soils
OF rave, alia eas
Le
be
md
loamy soil may
ways, 1 ma
a mixt
clayey soil. It is neitherso light as sandy
nor so tenacious as the clay soil. As a
rule its composition and texture a
ire of equal parts of sandy
re such
lie usual pur-
80
which
Tac iY
for fruit trees. Loamy soils vg
sand forms a large ingredient in
are called sandy loams :
when well mixed with gravel, grave Ly
loams, and when lime abounds they are
their
composition
known as calcareous loams,
— ol A cms.
How Animals Play.
Small birds chase each other about
play.
in
but perhaps the conduct of the
crane and the trumpeter is most extraor-
dinary, The latter stands on one leg.
hops around in the most eccentric
ner, and throws somersaults,
Americans call it the mad bird, on ac-
count of these singularities. Water
birds, such as ducks and geese,
after each other, and clear the surface
of the water with outstreched neck and
flapping wings,
fhan-
The
dive
throwing abundant
or trial of strength.
their horns together and pushing for the
mastery. All animals pretending vio-
lence in their play stop short of exercis-
the dog takes the greatest per-
caution not te injure by his bite ;: and
the ourang-outang, in wrestling with
his keeper, pretends to throw him, and
makes feints of biting him. Some
animals carry out in their prey.
for instance, leap after
every small and moving object, even to
the leaves strewed by the autumn wind.
They crouch and steal forward ready
for a spring. the body quivering and tail
vibrating with emotion ; nd on
the moving leaf, and again spring for-
ward to another. Benger saw voung
cougars and jaguars playing with round
substances, like kittens, Birds of the
magpie Kind are the analogues of mon-
keys, full of mischief, play and mimicry.
There is a story of a tame magpie that
was seen busily employed in a garden
gathering pebbles with much solemnity
and a studied air, burving them in a
hole made to receive a post. After
dropping each stone it cried “Cur-ack”
triumphantly, and sat off for another.
On examining the spot, a poor toad
was found in the hole, which the
magpie was stoning for his amuse
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Long Finger-Nails.
According to the writer of an article
on “Extraordinary Finger-nails,” in
the Worldosf Wonders, it is the custom
of the Chinese, Siamese and Annamese
to allow the nails on all their fingers,
except the forefinger, to grow to a great
length, and among the former they
sometimes attain the incredible length
of from sixteen to eighteen inches,
Among the Siamese so distinctive a
mark of nobility are long nails esteemed
| that the bells and beaux wear silver
cases, either to protect their nails or
else to make people believe they are
there, whereas in reality they are not.
As regards the little finger, the writer
tells us that “ambassadors and visitors
of distinction from Asiatic States to
European, are often observed to permit
the excessive growth of the pail of the
little finger, and this is also a common
occurrnece with many of the people of
India and other parts of Asia.”