Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-25


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ill.,, Questions and Answers.
From Noahs Times and Messenger, of
this week, we compile the following qucs-
tions and answers: b..
Q"ery:-Yon say, in answer to qucs,,
ton, that smoking is healthy and good
for digestion. Now, am, and have been
defender of the ''weed" for n long time,
as we'll as smoker; but do think that
it does m injury to the lungs, throat, and
digestive organs. | say this from person.
nj experience. Tobecco is also great
injury to the eyes, and likewise tile brain;
but of all the harm it does, that to the di-
gcstion is tho greatest.
AnSwer:-We have expressed our opin-
ion on the subject and see no reason to
alter it. But, to show our querist that
distinguished Psychologists agree with us,
we refer him to George Henry Lcwes'
'Physiology of Common Life, which says:
-"Smoking, after meal, assists diges-
ton. There has been much discussion
respecting the iniuriousncss of smoking,
ever since tobacco was first discovcredi
but as physiology was-and still is in
most circles-little understood, very
considerable amount of nonsense has been
and continues to be, uttered on this qucs-
ton. 1t is a positive fact that the gastric
secretion can ut any time be produced by
simply stimulating the salivary glands
with tobacco; and, as before stated, what
ever stimulates the secretion of saliva pro-
notes that of the gastric juice. Smoking
docs this. A cigar after dinner is there
fore to that extent beneficial. Not SO
before meal. But the action of tobacco
is not confined to this-it has other influ-
cnces, some beneficial, some Injurious
Tile amount of injury depends on the
nature of the organism; and therein each
person must judge for himself.
QueTy:-I have seen it stated in one of
the city journals, lately, that Mr.. Speaker
Forney refused the appointment of consul
late to Liverpool, offered to him by. the
President. A friend tells me that the
spcakership is worth more to Mr.. +. than
| the consulate is. Please inform me what
each of these offices are worth per annum?
contend the consulate is the most lucra-
tive office of the two; my friend says no.
Who is right2
.Answer:-Mr Forney is not the speaker,
but the clerk, of the House of Representa-
| tives. The salary of the American consul
at Liverpool is $1,000 per Rnnum. Tho
pay and perquisitcs of the clerk of the
| House may be estimated at from twenty to
fifty thousand dollars year-lnst as the
conscience of that public officer may
happen to be more or less elastic.
( Query:-I desire to know if there are
books, and their names, that you would
recommend me to procure to assist In
preparing myself to become an editor!-
My aspirations tend that way; aud though
. ! am aware of the advice you will give me,
! ito commit suicide my mind is fixed, and
u beg of you to name such books MS will
Ibe Of service to me, if such there Hrc2
.Ausrer:-Ac0uire all the dead and most
! of the living languages, to begin. Then
become familiar with the history of man.
kind from the days of the shepherd kings
/ of Egypt down to the administration of
james Buchanan. Anintimate knowledge
I of the laws, manners, habits, religions,
! schools of Philosophy, and private and
public life of all nations, whether barbHr-
! ous or civilized, from the period of the eX-
pulsion from Eden to the present time, Will
| be found advantageous. An admirable
work as an elementary one, we should say
would be Sach0niathOn. Dion of Halicar-
rassus is available as sequent, though it
| is not to he too much depended on. Mas
ter the whole circle Of sciences. Become
nm adept in theology, politics, medicine,
| law, physics and metaphysics. Accomp-
| lish yourself in dancing, fencing. swim
ming, sailing, gymnastics, vocal and instru-
mental music, &c. Learn to write poetry
aud prose with equal facility, and to dis
tingnish the author of any line or lines
ever penned in your native or any other
tongue. In short, metamorphose yourself
into peripatetic cyclopedia-an 'admi-
rable Crichton"-a synopsis of literature
and learning; and you will be fairly on the
way (after twenty years prNctice) to the
possession of those trifing attributes sup
posed by the world, to be characteristic of
the animal known. as an ''editor." Sans
GGndinGgc, the less you know, the better
fitted you will be to conduct some journals,
and the more you know, the better adapted
you will be to conduct others With
! certain class of newspapers much also de-
ponds upon your moral and physical ca
pacity to endure calumny and contumely
without atfiictioni to accept few kicks,
cuffs, cowhidings, etc, as the playful com
mcntHries of the exuberant; to swallow
and digest your own words with facility,
MS wellas play the sycophant to the great,
and the bully to the obscure, a nlerretAe,-
With another class it is Indispensable that
You should be able to speak and act, as
we'll as write, like ga gentleman and q
scholar" So much for "the editor"
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