The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-11-15

The following dialogue, which actually took
place some years since between an oid iaoy,
Who had much confidence in professionals, and
\ learned but eccentric clergyman, goes g
strengthen a conviction already strong N many
minds. viz-thas human nature IS gullole.
Now. parson, you are man of much learn
ino. want to ask you what became OF the
eleven DAYS when old style was altered to new
well, well, madam, you know this world
is hung on two great gudgeons-
Indeed, sir! Well, what then"
well, it had been running round On the
two gudgeons great while, and they get worn
out and broke down
DO tell if it did,
Yes. marin. Well after the world broke
down, all the people turned to and put IN new
gudgeons, and set it to going again; and It
took EN- Just eleven days
The old lady was abundantly satisfied and
would have given to the learned gentleman
tie decree Of bachelor Of science, without any
further examination.
A young lady of Namur OF good family
having gallant, was at loss IN conducting
the correspondence, which was to fix their re-
heated designations. A hairdresser, not an
unusual messenger in love, was chosen as the
agent; but how escape the vigilance OF her
father wdower, who had perpetual eye on
her conduct? Singular as it may appear, the
old gentleman's wig was chosen as the letter
box. He wore bag, which his daughter used
to take off every evening when he called Tor
his night cap, and was sure to find billet
from her lover, which the halr-dresser had
placed there in the morning whenhe affixed the
Bag and which the old gentleman had unsus-
pectingly carried about all the day. Shef1ad
sufficient time to peruse it, and place her an
swer, which the hair-dresser withdrew IN the
morning, to deliver to her lover.
The following curious advertisement ap-
pears in an Ohio paper:
"Whereas at particular times may lmpor-
tune my friends, and others, to- let me have
liquor, which is hurtful to me, and detrimental
to society This is, therefore, to forbid any
persons selling me liquor, or letting nae have
any, on any account or pretence; tor II they
do will positively prosecute them, notwlth-
standing any promise | may make to the con-
trary at the time they may let me have it
SIGNED before witnesses. Al. W. JONES. !"
Because man and wife sometimes quarrel, it
is no sign they do not Glove each other" The
sweetest of flowers have the btterest buds
The latest case of absence of mind is record
ed of lady, about to 'twhip, up some fine
sponge cake, who whipped the young baby, and
sung Watts cradle hymn to the eggs.
We learn from the Minnesota Times, that the
saw mill at Jordan is now in operation 1t IS
to be hoped that enough lumber will be got out
to plank the road, which is VIGOROUSLY ''hard
road to travel"
Why Ep1DEM1cs RAGE AT N1GHr-1t was in
one night that four thousand persons persisted
of the plague in London. twas by night that
the army Of Sennacherb was destroyed. Both
in England and on the continent large portion
of cholera cases in its several forms have been
observed to have occurred between one and two
o'clock in the morning. The danger of expo
sure to the night air has been theme of physl-
clans from time immemorial, but it is remarka-
BILE that they have never yet called in the aid
of chemistry to account for the fact.
1t is at night that the stratum of air nearest
the ground must always be the most charged
with the particles of animalized matter given
out from the skin and deeterious gases, such as
carbonic acid gas, the product of respiration,
and sulphuretted hydrogen, the product of the
sewers. In the day gases and various substan-
ces Of all kinds rise in the air by the rarefac-
ton of the heat. At night, when this rarefac-
ton leaves, they fall by anincrease of gravity,
If imperfecty mixed with the atmosphere, while
the gases evolved during the night, instead OF
ascending, remain at nearly the same level. 1t
is known that carbonic acid gas at a low tempe
nature partakes so nearly of the nature OF a
fluid that it may be poured out of one vessel
into another. 1t rises at the temperature at
which it is exhaled from the lungs, but its ten
dency is towards the floor or the bed of the
sleeper in cold and unventilated rooms
At Hamburg the alarm Of cholera at ght in
some parts of the city was so great that many
refused to 60 to bed lest they should be attacked
unawares in their sleep. Sitting up they proba-
bly, kept their stoves or open fires burning for
the sake of warmth, and that warmth gives the
expansion to any deleterious gases present, which
would best promote their escape and promote
their dlution in the atmosphere. The means
of safety were then unconscously assured. Al
Sierra Leone the natives have practice in the
sickly season Of keeping fires constantly burn
ing in their huts at night assigning that the
fires kept away the evil spirits, to which, In
their ignorance, they attributed the fever and
ague. Latterly Europeans have begun tc
adopt the same practice, and those who have
tried it assert that they have now entire i'm,
munity from the tropical feyers to which they
were formerly subjected.
In the epidemics of the middle ages fires used
to be lighted in the streets for the publication
of the air, and in the plague of London in 1885,
fires in the streets were at one time kept burn
ing necessarily, till extinguished by violent
storm of rain. Latterly trains Of gunpowder
have been fired and cannon discharged for the
same object, but it is obvious that these mea-
sures, although sound in principle, must neces.
sarily, out of doors, be on too small scale AS
measured against an ocean of atmospheric air
to produce any sensible effect. Within doors
however, the case is different 1t is quite pos
sible to heat room sufficiently to produce E
rarefaction and consequent dilution Of any ma
ignant gases it may contain, and it is of course
the air Of the room, and that alone, at nigh
which comes in contact with the lungs of the
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