The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-04-06
NEW USE OF CuLOROFORM

y We copy from the Boston Jon4.nal, III
following notice Of Tie discovery of a ney
J. properly in CAloroform,. as a soIven. o
e Guta Percha. Should The statements o
: tic writer lie verified, a great variety o
: purposes may be readily imagined 10 which
D II might be uscfully applied. To dentists
~ particular, II would furni.h an adnra.
bic article Cor filing decayed teeth, far
preferable 10 the metals and compositions
now IN use for iha, purpose:
MIR. Sleeper: In the use OF Ch.oroform
as mn ansariheiic agent, we have already
seen quite too many questionable results to
give II preference IN practice over sui.
Phufc ether Still we may fcjoice lha, il
Is possessed of peculiar and most valna bic
/ properties. To say nothing of It's wonder.
inl sedaiive powers on animal functions, il
proves thus far q teffect solvent for all
vegetable gums. Even Gu,ia Percha,
which yields to no other ngent, and for
which a soiven, has never been made pub.
lie. dissoives readily in Chlorofurm, aud
without the application of csloric, is held
IN solution IN such manner as 10 render
IT'S greatest benefits Immediately ayaila.
bic.
take the liberty to send 10 you bv our
worthy express agent, Mr.. Fn.ter, a phiaI
81 tn solution, tn he examined al your
leisure, iGu Will fad tina, wherever n
thin Goa, Of !, i applied, especially to Tho
surface az the b dy, an apparently new
skin Is formed. The Chlorofnrm Instantly
evapnraies aud the percha alone remains,
forming plaster as free rs isingass from
Irritating qualities, aud as piah'e and i'm.
pefvious 10 air and water as the skin itself,
and nj the same time, almost ms adhesive.
Applied iniarger quantities 1t forms shields
fur spllnis f'r disclosures or fractured
llmhs.
VIII you have the goodness through
your columns, to sugges, tn the medical
profession a trial of this preparation in
dressing such wounds. &c., ms need onv
Ia he kip, rightly adjusted and projected
FROM atmospheric action.
A droll fellow was asked hv an old lady
ip read The newspaper, aud taking il up be.
gan us f,llnus.
Last night Yesterday morning, about
w. o'eirk in .he atternonn hefare break.
fast hungry bny nh"ui frty years old
bought fin cu-tard tor l.vv. and threw
i through n hrirk wall nine feet Tuck and
Inmpiug over Il broke his right ankle nE
ahnve the knee. fell inio dry miil.pnnd
apd was drowned. About lnity years az
ter tina, on the same dav, an I'D cat had
nine turkey gohblers. a high wind blew
Yankee Doudic On flying pan, apd knock.
ed The Dnch church down aud killed nm
old SOW and two dead pigs Al Bis,'ns. where
deaf and dumb man was talking French
to his aun, Peter"
/ The old lady taking a long breath, ex
claimed " du tell ~
Oar friend Buraess, Of the well known
house Of Burgess, Slriuger & ca. tells
capital aneeduie Of himself, which should
not be altogether privately hushcd up
lie is member of The Methods, Church;
aud being at a Camp meeting near Sing.
Sing, last Summer, he had tho misfortune,
after two or three days and nights alien.
dance to fall asleep in the midst of a pow.
erful sermon. Ii WAS jus, after the New.
York Trade Sale OF books. and Mr.. Dur.
CESS was dreaming thereof; and TO the
searching qnes'ionIues of the speaker
will YOU longer delay Twill you not
chnnse To day whom you are To serve =
wha, course YOU are to take 7 Take the
iW the baianee 10 Burgess, Sirinser 5'
Company ? exclaimed Burgess eagerly, as
he awoke, and stared wildly around him,
, when he saw every body staring still more
wildly ut him, and The minister himself
, pelrihed with amazemcn,!
CURING a COLD.
Bristol will your balsam Of hoarhound
cure a cold
Certainly, sir; il is an infallible rene.
dy."
you will ob'ige me, then, by giving
the weather dose !"
"Ge, cut you impairment puppy"
DANDIES.
J Whiskered handles are like cats--cul Of
their whiskers and they are useless.