Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06
A Danbury Man with q Cold In His
Head

Head.
One Ofthe most annoying complaints in range
If me dical know ledge Is cold in the head. But
you would not think so. No newspaper which
publishes intricate recipes for complicated dis
cases, tells even in the most vague way, how to
cure a cold in the head. No volume on physiOlO-
gy comes to its relief. No doctor in regular prac-
tice pretends to know anything about it. 1t is the
wande ring jew of ailments. 1t invades every
household with impunity, and snaps its fever
ish finger in the very face of medical science.
And medical science promptly lodges, and is
cold in his head is mournful fabric
to contemplate. He is ostracised from com
pany. He is barred out from the family circle.
He loses his interest in everything but stove
and handkerchief, and were he called upon to
give an expression it would be found that his
idea of heaven was place where stove found
ries and cotton mills were about equally divided.
His eyes are watery, his skin is drawn tight
10 his flesh, his nose is swollen, OF a fiery red,
and sorer than strange dog. What he mostly
ears is the draft, but IN spite OF his most active
tndeayors he Is sure TO get into it; and he Is
hardly able TO conceal his surprise at the pres
Of business the family is subjected to,
of the time, and establishes an almost
uninterrupted current of air about his legs.
Screwed up back of the stove, with his nose like
a beacon shining above 1t, he patiently holds
his handkerchief to the blaze, and finally slips
into a mental calculation as to which will first
lose its mosture-hIs cotton or his blood. There
he sits all day, with the handkerchief as flag
IF truce rendered by the fire in his
head to the fire in the stove, and at
night he goes scudding through cold hall,
sneezing every leap. Long after every one else
IS asleep he starts up with terrific sneeze, and
iiDds that his feet are sticking out below the
quilts, and the handkerchief, which he meant
10 have carefully located for just this emer-
gency, is nowhere to be found.-DaaJary NeoS
WOMEN AS PnYsTcTANs.-The Pail Mall
Gazette remarks that, however arbitrary may
have been the measures taken by the Govern
ment OF st. Petersburg to discourage the emf
grafton to Zurich of Russian women DESTROYS of
stu6pipu medicine "A the mi sifv there great
advantages appear to be held out TO such per-
sons in their own country According to an Of
heiai report lately published, eighty-foar out OF
REGULATE at the Academy OF Medicine and Sur
gerry in st. Petersburg passed a satisfactory ex-
animation and were admitted to the lectures
Two were sent back to undergo a second exam
ination later and only six we're rejected on ac-
count of insufficient preliminary knowledge.
While fourteen per cent. were rejected last
year, the number of unsuccessful candidates
for naturalization has now fallen to and a
half per cent, Circumstance which is all the
more gratifying that the requirements of the ex-
aminers increase every year. About 1G7 young
women are now studying at the Surgical Acad-
envy of ST. Petersburg, generally with success
iu results. Some of these passed less severe
examination than the eighty four who have
now matriculated, but experience has shown
hat il is more advantageous to the women stu
dents in respect OF their studies and of their
subsequent career that the first examination
should be strict and comprehensive.
A CURIOUS STORY comes to us across the
ocean of a shspeless bundle of rags found re-
Gently in tree-top in the South Africa colony
Of Natal 1t proved 70 be one of the missing
balloons which fioated out of Paris during the
siege with freight of letters and dispatches-
orders from the Government of National De-
fence to Its generals in the field, and messages
of love and cheer, of sorrow and complaint
from the suffering citizens to their friends out
SIDE. If the government had no better way than
this of reaching its commanders, it Is perhaps
not surprising that the military operations of
France occasionally lacked consistency. 1t has
been suggested that the contents of this aerial
mail may have an important bearing upon the
trial of BaZaine; but a question which will in
terest the public far more than the purport of
the letters is how the balloon should have found
its way from France to the southern extremity
of Africa. Natal is over 8, 900 miles from Paris
in direction almost due south. We should like
to know what Prof. wise's easter. current was
doing while the air-ship made this extraordina-
~ voyage.
A VAN VERT, Ohio, couple, recently d.
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