Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-07-22

OoEo w ACE Ill Hehltu ITO one ought
to drink ice water, for it has occasion
cd fatal inflammation of the stomach
and bowels, and sometimes sudden
death. The temptation to drink it is
very great in Summer to use it all
with any safety, the person should take
but single swallow at a time, take
the glass from the lips for half min
ute, ard then another swallow, and so
on. 1t will be found that in this way
it becomes disagreeable after few
mouthfuls.
On the other hand, ice itself may be
taken as freely as possible, not only
without injury, but with the most strik-
ing advantage in dangerous forms Of
disease. If broken in sizes Of . pea
or bean, and swallowed as freely as
practicable, without much chewing or
crushing between the teeth, it will often
be efficient in checking various kinds
Of diarrhea, andhas cured violent cases
of Aslatic cholera.
A kind Of cushion and powdered ice
kept to the entire scalp, has allayed
violent inaammations of the brain, and
arrested fearful copvulsions induced by
too much blood there. ~
Water as cold as ice can make it.,
apr lied freely to the throat, neck and
chest with sponge or cloth very often
affords On almost miraculous relief, and
if this be followed by drinking copi-
ouslyof the same ice cold element, the
wetted part wiped dry and the child be
wrapped up we'll in the bed-clothes, it
falls into delightful and life giving
All infammations, internal or exter-
nal, are promptly subdued by the ap-
plication Of ice or ice water, because it
is converted into steam, and rapidly
conveys away the extra heat, and also
diminishes the quantity of blood in the
vessels of the parts.
A piece Of ice laid on the wris t will
often arrest violent bleeding of the
nose. Il =. z. y IN - i .
To drink any ice-cold liquids at
meals retards digestion, chills the body,
and has been known to induce the most
dangerous internal congestions.
II ice is put in milk or on butter,
and these are not used at the time, they
lose their freshness and become sour
and stale, for the essential nature of
both is changed, when once frozen and
then thawed. -.Halps Jour. Of Health.
You WILL BE- WANTED. - Take
courage, young man. What if you are
but an humble and obscure apprentice e
"a poor and neglected orphan-a
scoff and by-word of the thoughtless
and gay, who despise virtue in rags,
because of its tatters. You have an
intelligent mind, all untutored though
it may be! Have you a virtuous aim,
a pure desire and an honest heart !?
Depend upon it, one OF these days you
will be, wanted. The time may lor g
be deferred. 2 You may grow to man
hood, and may even reach your prime
ere this call is made /; but virtuous
aims, pure desires and honest hearts
are to few not to be wanted. Your
virtues shall always wrap you about as
with a mantle obscurity shall not
always veil you from the multitude
Be chivalric in your combat with
circumstances. Be active, however
small may be your sphere of action.
It will surely enlarge with every mo-
mentd and your influence will have
constant increase.
"BHANG. 1.-The Hamilton (Cana-
day Times informs its readers that
"Young America is beginning to use
the "'Bhang,", so popular among the
Hindoos. 1t is not q drink but a
mixture of bruised hemp seeds and the
powder Of the betel root, rolled up like
a quid Of tobacco It turns the lips
and gums q deep red, and if INDUCED
in largely produces violent intoxication.
Lager beer and schnapps will give way
for Bhang, and red lips instead of red
noses, will become sthe style.'"
This, We opine, will be news to
Young America. O He is q 'ssmasher,"
and drinks, ''smashes =, and he is a
"bang-up fellow" too, but we don't
think, be has got to eating ''bhang''
yets Theavsriety Of Young Americas
stimulants is so great that there is no
need for anything additional from the
Hilsloos. lArdJasfor fred lips :, he
is too gallant to undertake q competi-
ton with the sweet creatures whose Ia
bal rubies beat the betel-dye.
IMMENSE SIZE OF THE PYRAMIDS. -
A United States naval chaplain, who
has recently visited the grand pyramid
Of Cheops, in Egypt. wading in the
deep sand fourteen hundred feet before
he had passed one Of its sides, and be-
tween FIVE and six thousand feet before
he had made the circuit, says, thai ia
king o hundred New York churches of
the ordinary width, and arranging them
in . hollow square, twenty FIVE on side,
you would have scarcely the basement
Of this pyramid take another. hundred
aad throw in their material into the
hollow square, and it would not be full.
Pile son all thestone and brick Of Rhiia-
delphia and Boston, and the structure
would not be as high and solid as this
greatest work Of man. One layer, of
block was long since removed to Cairo
for building purposes, and enough re-
nainsto supply. the demands Of . city Of
half q million of people for q century, if
they were permitted freelysto use it.
The PAsr.-God demands an &C.
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