Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-11
SCIENTIFIC.

i Prevalent Mdnids.-The blue glas
mania has had its day. The bar room
are removing their signs of cocktail
I in blue glass;" and the cerulean COB
lets, wherein those seductive and pre-
sumably sun-strengthened beverage
were dispensed, may be purchased TO
small sums from the cheap china ven
dors on our sidewalks. We notice
diminutiOn in the sheets of blue glas
hung in windows of private dwellings
..signs," some one calls them, ito in
form the public of the gullibility O
the inmates" and in fact the only evi
dence at hand which exhibits any
vitality of the now rapidly cOllapsinl
blue glass mania is the production of d
cheap variety of note paper, called the
"PleasOntOn," because the pastebOarC
box in which it Is contained has blue
lid. The General can doubtless explain
| the efficacy of the glass in this connec-
ton. Blue glass. therefore. has hat
Its run, Its inventor has earned his no.
toriety, and also the thanks of the glas.
dealers, who have reaped fine pecu-
mary harvest.
Two new manias are at hand. to wit,
the celery cure and metallo-therapy
celery Is the greatest food in the
world for the nerves." says one of OuI
contemporaries; and the information
Is travelling the length and breadth of
the land. 1t Is fashionable nowadays
to call every ailment that flesh is heir
TO nervous disease; and where our
ancestors would have resOrted to such
h0mely remedies as hot drink and
simple cathartics, the present practice
demands chlOral, and bromldes, and
qulnine, and strychnine. and phOs-
pilates, and rare chemicals without
number. Of course celery Is pleasanter
TO take than most drugs: and now that
1t Is brought forward as new nervine,
plenty of people will use it. AS it can
do no harm, and, indeed, may actually
work good by checking the too preva-
lent consumption of nervous specifics,
the mania Is rather a benefit than
otherwise, and should be encouraged.
Wild celery or smallage is known 10
possess some narcotic effect, and is
reputed as unhealthy. As regards the
medicinal properties of cultivated
celery, there are no utiliZatiOns of them
IN the Unltel States PharmacOpGia;
but as celery (apium grdreoienS) belongs
TO the same family as the parsley
(dpium petrvssiinam), it is probable
that it would yield apiin and apiol, as
slch substances are obtained from the
latter. Apiol acts as tonic, similar in
Its effects upon the system To quinia.
The other mania, metallic therapy, to
which we have already briefly alluded,
is perfectly harmless, and at present is
confined TO France. Les Mondes, of
recent date, reports another "astonish-
ing cure"-a child four years old this
time, almost dead with meningitis. The
metallo-therapY inventor enveloped
the lnfant-there is no Children's Pro-
tective Society in France-in plates of
iron and copper from head TO foot.
Half of the body was covered with one
metal, half with the other, in order
that both metals might have an equal
chance of doing good" In eight hours
the child revived; in six days, it was
out of danger; in a month, it was well.
Manufacturers of iron and copper plate
may now consult with blue glass
makers as to how to advertise this.