Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-21
A physician in Germany

known 10 cure the horrible, and till then
incurable disease called the Goitre,-
which affiicts whole districts in the
south of Europe. He conjectures that
it is Iodine in the sponge which effects
the cure, and he accordingly applies
the Iodine TO the goi,re, and it is found
that it is almost an infalibe cure
Thus world of misery is prevented by
the shrewdness of the soap.boiler.
A few years since, the scurvey was
the great terror of the seas. Whole
crews were cut down, and more than
one case had been known, in which the
bodies of the dead, sewed up in sail
cloth, have lain rolling on the deck,
day after day, because the crew were
too much withered TO raise them over
the MEETINGS and commit them TO the
deep. Admiral Hosier, who sailed for
the West Indies with seven ships of the
line, during the last century, lost all his
men twice over, during the single voy.
age, and himself died of broken heart
before he reached home. What a bless.
ing did that man bestow, who informed
the world that the simple acid Of the
lemon taken daily would Danish this
fearful disease! 1t is now almost un.
known even in the most crowded ships.
The discovery OF Franklin, a man at
that time in common life, by which the
, lightnings of heaven are brought under
the control of man, is an example in
point. In France and Germany, where
the lightnings are far more destructive
, than with US, this discovery is valued
as it ought to be.
l might lead you to look at the Light
house as it was, and now is, to see tn,
=, immense improvements which hav,
: been made, and in consequence of which
2 life is saved in multitudes of instances
$ | might point you TO the Life-boat
I which will now shoot out in the howl
f ing storm, and which will ride over am
o raging of the deep, and show you tina
/, it is TO the intelligence Of every day la
/ bouring mechanics, that we owe thi
o valuable machine for saving human life
# | might take you over the sections c
k Europe where the atmosphere is poi
!. oned by malarious exhaations, and sho'
II you what an amount Of sickness an
!. death have been prevented by Quinn
o a simple discovery, but of immens
!. value.
Once more. Ii was found that ii
steel dust which was created by grinN
10 ing needles, and which is inexpresslbl
DC minute, filled the atmosphere, filled Il
= eyes and the lungs and invariably caust
20 consumption. Gauze wells of the fine
=, texture were tried but all 10 no purpos
No veil could prevent it from enterir
-, the eye and lungs. At last workm,
-, notices child playing with a magnt
- drawing the needles and the steel-du
- after il--as we have all done in chill
~ hood The discovery is now made.
80 A veil Of fine magnetic wire is draw
,'' over tho face, and the air is strain
'e pure, all the dust Of the steel being
-, tracted and held by the wire, and t
81 abour of grinding needles is now hard
Nv more dangerous than any other busine
II" have adduced these examples, tn
y" might be greatly extended--and VIC
eP ders, like those achieved by the cote
l l gin and by vaccination, might be DIV
ny upon almost indefinitel y,-not becal
'a' they are of course new, but becau
"" they show you that mind and int
VIC gence in the work shop are as valua
and of as much use to the human far
os' Iy, as if they were employed in writ
MS folios. One single fact brought i
IN notice--one single phenomenon brou
ave into view, and its explanation obtair
tel may be unmeasured in its results VI
Will the world. Usefulness and respeC
to- bility came from the Union of a g
'Py heart and an intelligent mind, and
AN TO be monopolized by no station or
ma cupation. Seek, then, TO obtain III
Kali as your own.--TodTs Hints to 70,
APP Men.
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a., AN EYE TO BUsINEss.--A temp