The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-20
HTGIEYE POR s8TOKERs.

HYGIENE FOR SMOKERS
The following are DR.. Berthand's pre-
cepts and advice to smokers. Never
smoke more than three or four pipes or
cigars day, and, if it is possible, limit
yourself to two. II Is unwhOIesOne to
smoke on an empty stomach or immedi-
ately before or after meal. Whatever
Be the mode Of smoking, direct contact
of the tobacco with the mucous bucalliz
mucous lining Of the cheeks) and the
teeth must be avoided. Cigars should
be smoked in an amber, ivory or pOrce-
lain mouthpiece.
To smoke, by relighting them, portions
Of cigars that have been extinguished,
together with the system of blackened
and juicy pipes, constitutes the surest
way of being affected by nicotine. Every
smoker would do well if he could rinse
his mouth after smoking. "A fortiOri is
the same precaution applicable to chew
ers. Fer the same reason it would be
well to subject pipes and bowls in which
tobacco has been burned to frequent
washings, either with ether or with water
mixed with alcohol or vinegar.
It is difficult to choose between the
different ways Of smoking. I give pre-
ference to the cigarette, by reason Of its
slight quantitatiYe Importance and the
paper, which interferes with the contact
of It's contents with the bucCal mucous
membrane. But to realize all the dcsid-
eratG, it would be necessary to have the
papelit0 made Of fax thread, and to abb
stain from the practice which has be-
come the ne plus ultra Of its kind, re-.
tanning the respiration at the back of the
mouth, so as to pour it out of the nOstrils
afterward.
The premature habit of smoking is
certainly hurtfuI to childhood, and dur
ing the adoIescent period of organic evO-
luton. The economy cannot but suffer
at this period from the narcotic influence,
be it never 50 slight, and from the sail
walton which is. inseparable from this
act. All persons cannot smoke with inn
punity. There are pathological counter
indications or idiOsyncrasies to this habit
that it would be imPrudent and Culpable
to infringe
Diseases of the lungs, of the heart,
chronic affections Of the mouth, nose,
eyes, throat, and stomach are the results
of the present incOmpatibiiities. The
airing of apartments where smoking has
taken place should be well attended to.
To sleep in rooms where tobacco smoke
exists, slowly constitutes a grave infrae,
tion on the elementary laws of hygiene.
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A HUGE BLOCK OF SILvER.-The city
of Havana brought to New York recently
block of pure silver weighing 400
pounds and worth s64, 900 in gold. The
block is foot in diameter, and has six
sides each three feet long. 1t is perfectly
smooth and highly polished. 1t belongs
to Pho Bermeiillo & Co, bankers of the
City Of Mexico, who has consigned it
to Gomez, Stonda & Co, of 9 Old Slip,
to be exhibited among the Mexican pro-
ducts at the centennial. 1t was exhibited
at the Mexican exhibition in Mexico last
year. The silver forming this immense
block is said to have been dug from the
Real POtOsi, one Of the Oldest mines in
Mexico. The treasure lies in a hexa-
gOnal box in the hold Of the steamship
City of Havana. The purser Of the
Havana says that the silver block, in its
box, lay day and night unguarded on
wharf at Vera Cruz 1t wouldn't
stay long on a wharf in New York, he
added. The silver Is to be examined BY
the United States appraiser, and then il
is to be deposited in the New York Safe
Deposit company's vaults to await Orders
from the Mexican centennial commits
sioner.-N y. Sam.
/ THE BULGARIAN BANprT. Koush-
tchou Ogiu, the great Bulgarian bandit
was a promising young man in conn
try village not many years ago, During
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