New-York tribune., 1878-07-19

mercury in the nneties. Try and get good nights
Sleep Let the clothing be worn loosely. Drink
plenty of cooling beverages. Cold tea or cohee,
lemonade and oatmeal and water, are all good
and handy Don't touch spirits OF wine, or
even bcer-the blood is hot enough without them.
Ice-water, il taken slowly, is cooling. but should
not be INDUCED in too freely. Eat sparngy and OF
light cooling food. Heavy dinners invite disaster.
Take an extra bath or two. Turn on the Croton ana
hold the wrists under it for short time trst apply
ing water to the neck and back Of the head Where
practicable, sprinkle water on the floors and pas
sages. Even vessels .Of water placed in rooms
greatly moderate the heat. Secure good circuia-
ton of air, and make it pass over broken
ice as it enters the house. Lower the sun-awIungs
or close the shades so as to shut out all direct sun
light. Above all. remember from the first hour IN
the morning that it is great deal easier TO keep
cool than to get cool after You have fooshy heated
yourself by little of the average New-York en-
ergy.
Lookout to-day and tomorrow for sunstrokes, and
remember that prevention is always better than cure
Here are some timely hints by tho Board OF Health
which will help to make life endurable during the
heated term: SunstrOke is caused by excessive
heat and especially if the weather is muggy. 1t is
mOrekely to occur on the second third or fouThday
Of heated term than on the first The time when
people most prone TO be sunstruck IS between IL
and O'clock. Wear thin clothing, sleep in care
fully ventilated rooms avoid loss Of sleep and over
fatigue Put moist handkerchief in the hat; lit
the hat OFF from tmo 10 time in order to obtain ven
tilation Do not check perspration, but drink what
water you need in order to keepup perspiraton. If
yOu feel fatigue. dizziness headache or exhaustion,
stop work at once. Sit down in a cool, shady place.
Apply wet cloths, and battle the face and neck in
cold water If any one is overcome with heat, send
at once for physician While waiting for the doc
tor, give the patient cool water cold tea Pour
cold water on the neck and wrists, and apply
pounded ice wrapped up in a towel to the head.
When a person is pale and faint with q feeble
pulse give some ammonia TO smell, and administer
a teaspoonful of aromatic spirits Of ammonia in two
tablespoonfuls of water sweetened with sugar"
A Columbia County farmer asks MS whether the
recent sale Of West Virginia lands at the rate Of liz
cents an acre was q bona fide transaction, and
whether the purchasers got good title to the prop
erty. The trustees of the estate, which comprised
1000 acres of timber and coal lands among the
mountains of that State, guaranteed the titles
The opinion of a LAWYER was appended to the
searches TO the effect that 30 far as the evidence Of
the papers submitted to him the chain, Of title
was unbroken. AMI that all the taxes had been
paid. The appraised value Of the lands was 10
cents an acre. and they sold at an average of
penny The auctioneers insist that the sale was in
every respect bona fde transaction. II has, how
ever, been regarded with suspicion by landowners
In Virginia and West Virginia. Ii is scarcely nee
essary to remind our correspondent, well as every
other honest farmer who is anxious to emgrate that
when new farm can be bought for song the pur-
chaser can well afford to have the title examined by
q competent lawyer.
The Mayors Marshal has decided that the Ordi-
nance requiring business wagons to be licensed does
not apply 70 undertakers vehicles Gncluding
hearses, we supposed, "because they do not carry
merchantable goods" The Mayors Marshal proba-
bly never heard Of tho Ann Arbor Medical College.