The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-11-19
Financial Embarrassment
Large Credits On Poor secu.
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Young .Amertca, (with 81 bill, to the pro-
prietor of an apple stall at the Park railngs)
"Say, ole woman, what's the price of apples?"
"Well, sir, there are none better in N. Y.
city, and will let you have them at the rate
of three for two cents,
"Agreec on,"-takes three bites from one
and presents his dollar bill in payment.
"Can't change that, sir"
sWhy not?''
"Because moneys scarce"
"Well, it's the best can do.''
"Never mind, you can owe it me-"
"Allright.o 1'
He then wends his way to Taylor's Saloon,
with determination this time to have it chan
ged; calls for an oyster stew, which finished
he presents his dollar bill again in payment.
"Cani change that, sir.''
"No? ven, it's the best can do.''
'Haven't you any smaller changer"
"No, sir"
"Well, you can owe it me, then."
"All right"
He next steps into liquor store, orders a
brandy smash, tips it off, and presents once
more his dollar bill. The man looks at it.
"No'hing smaller than this?"
"No, sr.''
"'m sorry to say can't change it; pay me
pext time you pass"
"All right"
He then walks of not knowing what to do,
going in debt with such security. Thinks,
however, he will return home and try again to-
morrow. Steps into the Fourth Avenue cars,
gets half way when he is called upon TO pay I;
presenting his dollar bill, the conductor says:
''No smaller change?''
"No, sir, that's all I've got''
"Sorry to say can't take it,n so walks
away as though it was no ncommon occur
renee.
Arrives at home and 2onders away, with
strange thoughts in his mind, about the dollar
bill. Sets to work and calculates how much
he has gone in debt; is astonished to find il
amounts to forty-seven cents. He. however,
feels perfectly satisfied, and thinks there is
no occasion to work so long as he can get
credit on such secnrity; believes himself as
good IS many of our merchants, and concludes
20 take eight months credit. In five years
from this that youth will be banker in Chi
cago.-N, Y. Times. ...... ~
Gy Masm and NAl1ris are the great agents
throughout the largest portions of the inhab l.
able globe. ''.
MiaSm is malaria but malaria is not masin.
Mlasm is an emanatioa from decayiug veg
eiation. Malaria is bad air. whatever NAV be
its source. All impure air is Malaria.
Miasn is so rariied by sun of ninety de-
srees, that it rises rupidIy before us. and is
innacnous. The cool of the morning and eve
ming of summer time condeaces it, ard causes
it to fall TO the surface of The earth, where it
is breathed by mar, aud is the fruitful canse
of pestilence, plague aud fevers Thus. the
higher persons sleep above the surface of the
earth, the healthier is the atmosphere.
While, as general rnlp, it is better 10 sleep
in apartments having window, and the fire.
place open in all seasons, vet where miasm
abounds, evidencing its pres nee by chills and
fever, fever and ague, diarheas, and the like,
1t is better to sleep with closed windows than
to have them open, because men are known to
fatten injails and small prison cells, while the
breathing of malaria, single night, has orig
mated diseases which, from the violence of
their action, are scarcely distinguishable from
the effects of swallowing corrosive poison, as
witnesses the National Hotel disease.
But, although the air inside of a house ia
supplied from The outside, yet, if the windows
and outside doors are closed, it is supplied in
such small quantities, through the crevices,
that it is at cnce heated by the indoor air, and
carried to the ceiling, where it is above reach.
The difference between the thermometer in our
hall and the one outdoors, about five O'Clock
ofa summers morning, is ten degrees. Hence,
during the prevalence of masm, at least in
August and September, it /. better to close the
chamber windows, but let an inner door and
the Fireplace be kept open,-[Hall's Journal
Of Health.