I'KAKLH OF THOUGHT.
Ambition Is the avarice of power.
To know is one thing, to do in an
other.
Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread.
It is far better to borrow < xjiorioncc
than to bny it.
It is much safer to think what we say
than to say what we think.
Quarrels wonlJ be short lived if the
F wrong were only on ono side.
The two most previous things on this
side the grave are our reputation and
oar life.
The universal heart of a man blesses
flowers. He has wreathed them around
the cradle, the marriage altar and the
tomb.
No man can pan-base his virtue too
deal', for it is the only thing whose
value must ever increase with the price
it has cost.
< Kod tempi r is like a sunny day ; it
sheds a brightness o\er everything; it
is the sweetener of toil and the sootlu-r
of disquietude.
Those uro mock gentlefolk who mask
their faults to others and to themselves;
the true know them perfectly and ac
knowledge them.
Moro hearts pine away in seen t an
guish from the want of kindness from
those who .should be their comfort than
fo: any other calamities in life.
'Hie Care of Infant-.
Tue following circular, issued by the
New York Imarl of health, will lie use
ful rialing anywhere:
XIKMNI; OK INPAVI O\, r-feeding
does more harm than anything else;
nurse an infant a month or two old
every two or three hotus. Nurse
an infant of six months and over live
times in twenty-four hours and no more.
It an infant is thirsty givo it pun
water or barley water, no sugar. On
the hottest days a few drops of whiskv I
may lie added to either water or food,!
the whisky not to exceed a tenspoonfnl |
in.twenty-fonr honrs.
FKHHIVO OK IMP \M.S.-~ Boil a tea
spoonful o 1 powdered barley (ground
in coffee-grinder) and a gill of water. !
with a little salt, for fifteen minutes, |
strain, then mix it with half as much '
boiled milk, add a lump of white sugar
size of it walnut, and give it lukewarm
from a nursing-bottle. Keep bottle and
mouthpiece in a bowl of water when
not in use, to which a little soda may
be added. For infants five or six months
old. give half barley-water and half
lioiled milk, with salt and a lump of i
sugar. For older infants give moro
milk than barley-wa'er. For infants verv
costive, give oatmeal instead of barley, j
Cook and strain as before. When yoni |
breast-milk is only half enough, change
off between breast-milk and the prepared
food. In hot weather, if bine litmus,
paper applied to the food turns red the !
I °°d is too acid, and you must mako a
fresh mess, or add a small pinch of
baking soda. Infants of six montlo
may have beef tea or beef soup once a
day, by itself or mixed with other food;
and when ten or twelve months old. a
erost of bread and a piece of rare beef
to suck. No child under two years
ought to eat at your table. (live no
candies, in fact nothing that is not con
tained in th*se rules, without a doctor'.,
orders.
StmiKH Cowi-nao r.— It couie-i from \
over-feeding and hot and foul air. 1
Keep doors and windows open. Wash
your well children with cool water twice
a day or oftcncr in the hot season.
Never neglect looseness ~f the tiowels
iu un infant; couault the family or dis
pensary phy.tician at onee, and he will
give you rules fdxtut what it should
take and how it should lie nursed.
Keep your rooms as cool as possible,
have th< m well ventilated, ami do not
allow any liad smell to come from sinks,
privies, garbage boxes or gutters almnt
the house where yon live.
Ice Water.
Kx-Govcrnor William boss, of CLi
<"Hgo, has delivered a discourse on ice
water. He said that "a general reform
iu drinking foe water would confer a
benefit U(OD the public. The constant
and immoderate use of ice water has
lwM-ome ono of the most octive causes of
disease all over the Cnitcd States.
There can Is' no doubt that it produces
our national disease, dyspepsia, in its
most aggravated forms, and you can
scarcely look over the death list in cur
papers that you will not *oe a notice of
someone dying of diabetes, Bright's
disease or some other kidney complaint.
In most cases, you may rely upon it,
f ice water is the remote if not the act
ive cause of all bis trouble. If ono
should express the opinion that ice
water is now tho source of more dis
eases among our leading business and
public men than whisky, a wide indnc-
Hon of facts wonld doubtless show him
not so far from right Hail experience
as well as extensive observation and in
! unity have convinced me of the truth of
this assertion." Ice water had come
nearer costing him his life than any
othercauso within his memory.
SCIENTIFIC SCILACS.
Five indus of dew falls annually in
England.
The wings of gnuti flap at the rate of
15,000 times per second.
Meat, rousted or boiled, loses from !
one-third to one-fifth in weight.
Tho stars contain material elements
common to tho sun and earth.
A small bottle of attar of roses is the
product of seven of eight hundred
pounds of rose leaves.
The latent heat contained in steam J
increases in proportion as the sensible
lieat of the water decreases from which ;
it is produced.
A single gruin of gold may be beaten .
into au extent of several square feet and
yet the leaf remain so intact as to trans |
init no ray of light.
An attempt is to be made by tin- !
Livingstone Inland mission to cultivate
some of the different species of chin- |
cliona in the mountain valleys of the I
Conga, Africa.
Mr. Wigncr, in the Aah/*t, states i
that American corned beef is twice ;
as valuable, as an article of I
diet, as fresh boneless beef, and that
the cooked ox tongues contain less salt
and more nutritive mat tor than the dried
tongues nsnallv sold in European mar
kets.
Of the twelve total solar eclipses be
fore the end of the present century, but
one is visible in America—that occur
ring May IW, 11MMI. The eclipse having
tho greatest duration unfortunately falls
Upon parts of the Pacific ocean where
there is no laud for the establishment
of stations of observation.
A- buoy ha- been placed at Handv
Hook, outside of New York bay, which
by the rising and falling of the waves
compresses air. This, when it reaches
a certain den-.ty, moves a dynamo
electric machine, and this causes a car
bon loop in a \a<- mm tube to glow with
light, while at the same time a power
ful whistle sou'i.is. It promises to" be
very useful for signals during heavy
fogs.
Whut to Brink iu Hot Weather.
'"What is tho best drink in warm
weather said a / rihunn reporter to an
oftl- i.il .it the Chamber* Htrc-et hospital
the other day.
"Cold water," he replied, "but not
ice-cold. Ice water chills the stomach
and so ultimately injures tho power of
digestion. One of the best drinks in
tin world for hot weather is buttermilk
with a littlo ginger in it. I know peo
ple don't like it excessively, but it is
valuable for all that. If somn of our
high livers who siifTer so m-vorclv at
times would live on nothing for a week
but brown bread and buttermilk they
would feel like fighting-cock*. Anoth
er excellent drink, a ul one which brick
layers uso a great deal, is the old
fashioned drink which the farm"rs use
in the hayftdd— water with ginger an-1
molasses in it. It cools the system and
opens the pores sullicieutlv for a com
fortable p, rspiration."
"Is it advisable t- drink much in hot
weather?"
"One must drink more or less ; it is
absolutely necessary in order to produce
perspiration. \\ ithout tint a man would
soon burn up."
" Is beer hurtful in hot weather ?"
"ft is one of the worst things in the
world, for the reason that by drinking it
you get the actiou of the alcohol upon
the brain at the same time with the lieat.
Case-, of alcoholic prostration combined
with heat are very numerous in hot
weather. If one drinks lecr at all lie
genoral iv drinks moro than one glass,
and in consequence places himself in a
condition where he is tlin most suscepti
ble to tho effects of |,eat. Alcoholic
drinks of all kinds should lie avoided
yet vast numbers use them; they drink
beer, wines, whiskey, gin, brandy—any
thing and everything fo allay thirst,
without regard to consequences."
" What classes of peoplo suffer most
from lieat an 1 are brought here?"
" Well, we have nil classes, but brick
layers, painters and roofers suffrr
I most."
j "AN hat effect does the heat have on
the brain incase of sunstroke?"
j "It seems to stupefy tho victim. All
hi- energies sink away; he loses power
: of thought, and lies in a more or less
, unconscious state, according to the
j severity of the attack. He recovers if
the stroke is not too severe. Hornet imes
ho dies; sometimes he is injured per
manently."
"What is the best war of avoiding
prostration by heat?"
" By keeping in the shade, it possible.
i " 'his cannot lie none, keep as cool and
collected in mind as possible; don't
worry, don't harry, doa't drink alcoholic
drinks, aud if yon find it necessary to
drink at all, use water not too cold, or
some of the drinks I hsvo spoken of."—
A5-r York Tribune,
A new grove of mammoth trees, nine
ty-tbree in number and many over one
hundred feet in circumference, has been
discovered in California. These mob
stars are some eighty miles north of tho
big trees usually viaitad by travelers in
tho Yosemite route.
( LIITIXiS nit: TilK ti'KIOI S.
Coach OH woro first lot for hire in Lon
don in 1(125.
Tho avorago of hitman life in about
thirty-three years.
Tho nn'an depth of tlm xca j M from
four to live utile*.
I'apyrtts was used to writo upon until
about tho seventh century.
Between tho years 17N.'J and 1K57 six
great earthquakes took pi.too in Naples,
which lost thereby 1,500 inhabitants per
year of that period.
1 'liiludolphia auil New York are con
nected by more telegraph wires than
any other two cities in the world, the
number being 110.
The four great castes of the Hindoo#
are tho brahtuans or priests, kshatriyaor
military, vaisya, commercial, and nudra,
the tillers of tho soil.
It wa the Kmperor Charles V. who
invented the title of "Your Majesty,"
sovcroigos having boon ])revimts|y ad
dressed as "Your Grace."
In 1840 a few grains of wheat taken
from tho tomb ola mummy 0,000 yeais
ohl wore planted in nit open garden in
England and grow finely.
The original invention and stib.c pu nt ;
improvement of the )■ ••■■t nr( . due to !
the French, who first n. , d it in
the Netherland* in ItilT.
One hundred and thirty nine millions
of tickets were used on tho I'rem h rail
ways during I*M). One ont ..f every
~000,000 of paNtnngers was hilled bv
accident.
While in England thirty, Germany
fourteen ami inFrancethii tot ri letters are
transmitted per annum per head of tho
population, in IIUSM.I the TIII'. jber is un
der one per head.
It was once believed 1. it putting?.*
cold iron lmr on top of bc< r barrels
would prevent the contents from being
soured by thunder. Ihe custom is
common in Kent and Hertfordshire.
According to rome antiquarians the
word " humbug" com s from a worth
less . oinage, n ,1 in Ircl.tn lin the time
of William ill , which Was call• 1 "o:>m
bag"— -soft copjier wortlib" s money.
'lhe surface of our bodies is rovcrctl
witli scales like a fish ; a high- qrain of
saml would cover 130 of those scales,
and ret a scale covers 500 pores.
Through these narrow openings the
|M>rspiration forcz, itself lik water
through a sieve.
At Connemar.i, in the w -t of Ireland,
the old women of the vicinity are given
the privilege of gathering the wool
scratched off the tboeps' bock* on the
atones, hedges and bushes; this wool
they can spin and knit into stocking*,
■ iling them at twelve and a half cents
a pair. As many as 200 pairs are
knitted by ]er-ou in a season.
Ida Lewi* Rewarded.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded the go!.! life- aving modal to
the famous Ida Lewis, now Mr*. Ida
Lewis Wilson, in recognition of her
services in rescuing a number of per.
sons from drowning since the passage
of tin act anthon/.ing such awards.
Most of tlm rescues made were under
cireumstaneen which allied for extreme
and heroic daring, anil involved the
risk of Mrs. Wilson's life. The follow
ing snmmarv of her achievements in
life saving is taken from the record • of
the treasury department:
The total number of liv. . Mrs. Ida
lewis Wilson has ased ninoc 1854, so
far as known, is thirteen. In all these
canes, except two, she has relied wholly
on herself. Her latest achievement was
the rescue last February of two bands
men from Fort Adains, near Newport,
R. I. The lueu Were pissing over the
ice n?ar Lime Iloek lighthouse, where
Mrs. Lewis Wilson resides, when the
ice gave war and they fell in. Hearing
their cries Mrs. Wilson ran out with a
clothesline, which sho threw to them,
successively hauling them ont at great
risk to herself from tho double peril •>{
tho ice giving way beneath her and ol
Ireing pulled in. Her heroism on vari
ous occasions has won her tho tribute
of her State's legislature, expressed in
an official resolution, the public presen
tation to her of a boat by the citizens of
Newport, a testimonial in money from
tho officers and soldiers of Fort Adam*
for saving the bandsmen, and medals
from the Massachusetts Humane society
and the New York Life Saving Benev
olent association. Totlie.so offerings is
now fitly tid ied tho gold medal of the
I nited States Life Having Service.
——.
Thrashed Tn lee.
There in hardly any difference in tho
looks of the twin Bowsers, of Janes
villa, Wis., but one is a drunken loafer
whilo the other is an exemplary Chris
tian. The loafer kied a woman un
bidden in the street, and her husband
by mistako knocked the Christian down.
!fr very muscular brother, when the
mistake was explained, went ont with
the avowed purpose of righting the
matter by whipping tho iwal offender
tremendously ; but he met tho t'hria
tian, refused to believe that a second
blunder was being made, and thrashed
I liim so that he almost died.
iK* " . * E
TOI'K'S OF Till: IMY.
'I lie great zeal of the Mormon* is soon
in the fact that the Book of Mormon ha*
been published in French, Gorman.
Italian, Danish, Polynesian and Welsh,
l'robab]vj."i,oo<l foreigners have already
cant in their fortunes with Utah and
polygamy.
The marriage insurance companies,
HUVH the New York Ptt ,/, seem
to bo doing a thriving business in the
interior of Pennsylvania, notwithstand
ing a judge's decision that he can find
no law authorizing their incorporation.
A llarrisburg company claim:: to have
put upon its books within the lost six
months three million dollars in marriage
policies, and hopes to make it ten mil
lions before the year ends. A Ishanon
operator haw hunted up all tho engaged
and good-looking girls in that county,
and has persuaded most, if not all, of
them to take policies in his company.
British India supports a population of
21! jicrsons to th" square mile, against
180 in France and 200 in England.
Wherever the population exceeds 200 to
the square mile it ceases t<> be rural,
and has to live to a greater or less la
tent by manufactures, mining or city
industries. Keeping in view that ninety
per cent, of the rural population of In
dia live more or less by the tillage of
the soil, it is ea*y to understand that,
owing to the extreme density of popu
lation, fie* atrnggl" for evisteii i* e -
ti > mely hard.
Those wtio settled themselves boek
with a fe ling of relief after the planets
had passed perihelion, need not think
they have quite escaped. The end of
the world receive* another "lioom." In
the fourteenth century 1.-onnrdo Are
mino, an Italian author, fixed the exact
date fir the end of nil thing l . November
15, I**l. A cord nig to this authority
the d -triiction of the earth and its in
habitants will occupy fifteen day-. The
cataclysm will begin by an nprising ol
the watcri. Th • human race, before
parting, will lose the pow< r of speech.
All will !><• dead Is fore the final dav
A eorre*]>oiidorit <>f the St. Lotus AV
jmhli- in makes the following ouggrs
tions: The neee-,jty of a submarine
cable from St. J'.ml to New Orleans, u
di tanee of two thousand nub'*, is fa-i
Incoming apparent to oni business
inter" it* on account of the rapid in
eri-asc in the river trade. As tho river
is the great national highway tin cable
she tild bo constructed and owned by tb<
government as nn important put of
rive r service and improvement in the
inton *t of cheap and safe navigation.
In connection with the cable and at
every landing hould be estilili bed the
electric light. Light the river with
electri light. It will increase tho
speed of vcs'iels and le <■■■, the rik o<
insurance.
An exhibition of H smgul.u cha a toi
is to l>o held in Berlin next year. It i*
to be an illustration of heraldry in all itr
phases, and the emperor l- to be its
patron. In the display of helmets,
Wi a pons, sc.il*, letters ami patents of
nobility, banners, gold and silver work
and gems, m.ny curious and valuable
historical and artistic relics will doubt
less l>e included. The Loudon cyn
ically observes: Upon the whole, how
ever, the r< suit must be a nio-t mon
strous and incomparably will a** m
binge of absurdities, since, of nil the
fantastic* exsggeiations ever invented
by the German genius, it* heraldry ha*
been aljout the worst, that cv, n of Eng
land not excepted. There is, however,
something hopeful in the fa"t of the
forthcoming exhibition. When such
things are collected together for men to
admire, or wonder or smile at, as they
please, there i* pretty clear proof that
they are very near being classed among
the bygones.
Fatal a i .f lockjaw, duo to the use
of toy pistols, have lieen reported by the
dozen since the Fourth of July, seven
teen oeenrring in the city of Baltimore
alone. The toy pistol most in vogne
this snmincr is about four inches long,
and explodes it blank cartridge with a
pasteboard wad. To insert the cartridge
tho breech of the barrrl i* raised, to do
which the boy take* the barrel in his
left hand, the muzzle resting against the
palm, near the ball of the thumb, while
ho raises the hammer with his right
hand. Then, if he is a little careless,
the hammer slips, the cartridge is ex
ploded, and the hard wad make* an
ugly wonml in tho palm of his loft hand
This wound is jagged and
causing serious injury to the nerves and
blood vessel* concentring there, and
lockjaw is the result. Some physicians
also support that a poiaonona property
in the powder incites the deadly com
plaint, and one thinks there is an epi
demic condition in the atmosphere tend
ing to induco lockjaw.
A man and hia wife, of tho name of
Zyssot, have l>ecn sentenced in the Can
ton Berne, Switzerland, to |>enal servi
tnde for life for having murdered all
their children, numlmring either five or
seven. They admit having put five to
death, and there is nation to believe!
that they killed two others whose birth* '
they concealed. Their motive was sim
ply to save themselves the trouble and j'
expense of bring their children up, j
though they seemed to have been far
from poor, a considerable sum of money ,
having been found in the house when
• hoy were arrested. The plan they i
adopted to get rid of the children was
to deprive them of food, aud when the I
process of starving did not appear i
quick enough, or tho little ones cried I
too much, it wns accelerated by Strang- [
ling or knocking them on the head.
The jury expressed regret that, under
the present law of Berne, tho Zysscts
eonld not be sentenced to some severer
punishment than jwrpetnal imprison- t
rnent.
By what occult laws of nature are
certain portions of Northwestern States
and Territories so constantly and al
most regularly visited with these terri
ble cyclones and tornadoes which up
root forests, sweep away farmhouses
and barns, lift cattle and horses and hu
man beings in the uii and carry them
for miles, devastate whole villages
make wide swaths of ruin through
cities, unroof or blow down churches,
court-houses, academic-; and tow n halls,
and leave in their path* the bodies of j
men, w omen and children killed by their
fury? These extraordinary tempests
are of periodical occurrence in certain j
belts of country in the Northwest aud j
West. What ; s their can 16f \ thor
ough understanding of this matter ;
might not lead to any practical results
in tho way of prevention—it probably!
would not. But knowledge is never
wholly unproductive. It must be re
rnomberod that once it wan thought irn
possible to stop the course of a water
spout nt sen; but now i: i-. known that*
cannon Sired at one of these destructive
water cyclone* will destroy it in a
second.
Sun"troke was in many Cincinnati ,
eaes, during the rwiil terrible heat,
treated with hot water instead of cold.
The following direction* were published
by *uch physicians as favored the plan : ,
Lay the patient on hi* back ; loosen
the clothing so as to encourage a free [
flow of blood ; expose th* 1 rhi *t, e*j.e- 1
eially over the region of the heart, ami |
with a large cloth, towel or ponge free
ly bathe th- heail, fare. n*k and chest
With ! -alt w.,!i r, tic hot as can b<
handled, continually adding more hot
water and applying it until the patient
is *<>fi. I*. rne lt-a*poonful <-f >alt to
ev. r - quart of hot Water. Wave the
f<-. : made bare and rubied J- slapped,
and in fIIMBW QHBU Btutaid
•A
ate man. a to hi- -p j whisky >
u
i JB|
w.i'cr ;if - . 031 pat ate.ii
sjH-onful of y. a i
of warm water and have the intent
drink it, following np with more until
ho vomits freely. A* lie convalesce*
Bivo at fir-t liine water and milk (one- .
fourth lime water and three-fourth*
milk), afterward a liquid diet until the '
stomach i strong enough f.ir solid*.
(iriwiini'ii feat of scientific starving
has attracted anoh slight attention that '
it M cms almo.-t imjicttincnt to mention
the subject again. It tuay bo worth I
wliile, however, to record the fast that
his 1-rng fast left him in a condition of
great physical weakne.s . t! n-h it did
not subdue his powerful will. He has
endeavored, in inferri' v- with Chicago
reporters, to convey tin impression that
his mind was unusually clear, and his
bodily vigor unimpaited at tho end of
his fast. In foot he ma le these direct
assertions, but they were fiitly contra- |
dieteil by the man's appearance and by
the physical effort* which he was eom
pelled to make in the nttrmpt to conceal
his actual condition. Hi* voice was
weak and trembled, and his legs shook
under him when he walked. He iu- I
tends to devote tho summer tothe prepa- !
ration of a lecture, which he will do
liver in tho fall, upon "The BitUi of
the New Spirit." Unless the man has
grossly ltlteled himsi If in his descrip
tion of the theory upon which his lee
tnre is to lo based, a worse mess of
nonsense was never eon-' H -ted tlum that
to which the attention of the public J
will l>e invited during the coming
autumn and winter.
Cause* of ShnrtstgtitcJnrss.
From the inquiries conducted by l'ro
lessor Hermann Cohn, of ltrestan, for
some sixteen years pist, he ventures the
assertion that shortsighteduesi is rarely j
1 or never born with those subject to it.
and almost always is the resnllof strains
t sutained by the eye during study in ;
early youth. Myopia, as this ailment is
called, is said to IH> of rare occurrence
among pupil* of rural or village school*.
| its frequency increasing iu proportion to
the demand made upon tho eye, a* in
higher school* and colleges A batter
C Hl*' I notion of achool-deaks, and im
proved topography of text-books, and a
sufficient lighting of class rooms are
among the remedies propoewj for abat
ing this malady.
TIIK FAMILY DOCTOR.
A |"MiII ice o?frrsh tea leave* mo.sUsocd
with water will cure B *tvc on the <■.*-
lid.
A notation of common salt given ib-
Tur.. ..lUdjf in a rocoMwfnl rcan
ody for rtryehnU poisoning.
I or earache, dissolve axuafootida in
water; warm a f„ w un ,j j rOJ( jn t , M .
ear, then cork the car w,th wool.
The only H ire ami efficient war to
warm cold feet ia to ,li p tkx-m in eoW
watt rand then rub them dry brinklv
with a coarse towel.
The trno physiological way of treating
WnrriH and scalds is to at once exeinde
the air, with cotton letting, flour,
scraped potato, or anything that ia
handiest.
To prevent choking, break an egg jut-.
;i cup and give it to the person choking
to swallow. The white of the egg seems
to catch around the obstacle and remove
it. It one egg (locsnot arjiwer the pur
pose try another. The wlrte is all that
is necessary.
By using svrup or molasses for mns
! tard plasters they will keep soft and
| flexible, and not dry up and become
i hard, a. when mixed with water. A Shin
paper or fine cloth should come between
' the plaster and the skin. The vtrengtli
of the plaster is varied by the addition
| of more or less flour.
The cure for night sweats depends
• ntirely on the cause. Malaria giv. •
i riseto it, and then the cur. is, (jninin-
I and arsenic. Debility may cause them.
In that case tonics and good, nutritious
, food should be used. Gonsumptiou
' causes it, and the cure is sulphuric
IK id, ten to twenty drops in water, an
hour. Oxide of zinc ami hydrocvauiic
extract pills, and, above all,atrophia sul
pliatc, one two-hundredth* of one grj:it
to begin with. This must be tak- a
with great care. Dr. Nairn, of Loudon,
says lie spong<* the body with tincture
ol belladonna, but the drug iatoo pow
erful to Is- ucd by any one Ira*, a ph.
xician.
friction of the Limbs.
H re is a statement from the t'nicago
II r Ulu ~ which, if true, h< uld tw
! universally read and acted tijm where
ever there is occasion, lor sanitary reit
• 'B*, for nibbing the limbs of any per
■UU in CAM* of illness, or w here an EFFORT
is made to resuscitate those who ar<-
nearly drowned. The statement seems
' I" Ik* a rati >nal on . and, physiologi
cally correct; but it is singular, if the
facta ore as stated, that medical i e*n
have not ere this caused it to be get,.
ally known. The following > wf.it is
said as to friction of the limb* .Never
under any circumstAuc - the liir >
dow ward. The blond in circulation
which cauls' reached by rubbing is all
venous or blue blool. It is rhargri
with waste and )..* aous material*,and
is struggling to get to tlie heart and
lungs for purification. Always nib up
ward. But few invalids, esjccial]T
with female difficulties, who will not
feel a new life imparted to them when
' this is tried for the first time. Valves
are placed in the veins purposely to re
sist downward movements, while the
stiff arteries near the bone are writbout
thrm. Clasp the wrist tightly and aoe
what nmltip'e currents of poison atari
■ out on the liand. while none appear on
the arm back of theligafure. A lifeconld
; be destroyed in a short time by sim
ply rubbing the limbs downward, while
yon can almost drag the dead out ol the
grave by rapid, persistent and general
rubbing of the limbs upward, if no lesion
of vital parts has occurred. In view of
this why has it not been wo state! m the
hundreds of "Directions" for restora
tion of tlie dead from asphyxia and syn
■xijie—ai in drowning and heart disease
; Bobbing to and fro simply affects the
capillaries, doing little if any good.
Artificial respiration i* beneficial, bat
' only when it has given impulse to the
heart. The best results will lie obtained
by having as many av four or i\ per
( sons rubbing the limb* synchronously
I (all alike—in rhythm), while another
manipulates the chest and abdomer.
At the risk of some vanity we advise
our exchanges to copy this article, and
invalids to put it into practice.
Te* of the Alphabet.
A teacher in a school in I<ouisiaua
I wished to impress upon the young folks
who composed the spelling-class *hal.
as many English books as there are in
the world, only twenty six letters can
Ih> found in them. She read the fol
lowing verse to who* how ail the letters
of the alphabet can be put to use, say
ing that the verse coo tamed all the let
, tors in the English language :
! Oi*l gives the grsaiitg m his meat.
lie quickly hears the sleep's lost cry:
Rut uiaw. sV.takes Hiafaml wlewt
WhouM lift his joyful praises high."
Then the Iceeher told the scltoiirs
to try their hand at eonatmrUng a
piece iu which all the letters ahoul i ap
pear. The children set to work, and
one of them at last produced the follow
ing sentence:
i L"" 1 '' 1V * Nn *♦ 4m*. Q
Wonderful as It may seem, the twen
t-*■*>* Utters Ot the alphabet may 1M
f oond is ths sentence.
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