The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20
Throat and Lung Diseases.

Physicians say that every kind of
cold, bronchitis, diphtheria, sore throat,
and pulmonary complaints are remark
ably prevalent now Sensible people
ought to reflect that nine-tenths OF these
troubles arise from preventable causes.
Wet feet are probably a first cause of q
good many of them. There is no ex-
cuse for any one who catches cold from
| wet feet. Overshoes are cheap, and in
this climate they ought to be worn all
the time between the LIST of November
and the 1st of May. tits never safe to be
without them, exceptin summer. Henry
Ward Beecher ascribes his robust health
mainly to the wearing of overshoes !;
and all other men who know how to
take care of themselves testify to the
same effect. Another cause of throat
and lung diseases is insufficient cloth
ing. Girls and women who go low
necked and short-sleeved to parties
take off their fannels to do so, and when
consumption declares itself wonder
how they got.it. A still more general
cause is overheating and bad ventila-
ton indoors. The lungs, parched and
! poisoned in the house, are in i'll condi-
ton to breathe cold or moist air out of
doors. Carbonic-acid gas puts them in
state of incipient inflammation before
they meet the fresh air at ALL Atten-
ton to these simple dictates of com
nonsense would prevent, we believe, %
large proportion of the dangerous
coughs and colds which do not come
| from constitutional weakness or predis-
position; and in the latter class of cases
the need of careful watching is greater.
t-Ch5cago Tribune.
A High-Prieed Quail.
Mr. Barry, in his work, Russia in
1870" tellse the following story of the
time when slavery was an institution in
/ that country: A 4 certain from master
caused a man who had offended him to
be locked up in an iron cage, and kept
him confined in it for a length of time.
| At last, while he was absent ON Jour
ney, the case of his wretched prisoner
came to the knowledge of the Governor
of the province. The Governor caused
! the man, cage and all, to be brought to
the Government town, and invited the
tyrannical iron-master to dinner
After the dinner was over the
Governor sent for quail in
a wooden cage, and offered to sell it
to his guest for 10000 rubles. The
offer being treated as a joke, the Gov
ernor said he had more valuable bird
I to sell, and told his servant to bring it
III. Folding doors flew open, and the
iron cage with its miserable captive was
I set down before the astonished guest
"Now," said the Governor. "what dc
you think Of that for quail? But this
4 is very expensive bird / want 90. OOC
1 rubles for him" "All right" said the
alarmed proprietor Il will buy this
one; send him down to my works with
out the cage, aud your messenger shall
bring back the amount" Thematt was
thus pleasantly settled, and the company
adjourned in undisturbed harmony to
{ their coffee.
4 The proportion of persons killed or
English railways last year was one IL
every 50,0O0,000 carried. During tbs
years 1872 to~i675. on our lines, it was
one out of every 100000; on French
railways, one to every 15,000,0O0; OF
Belgian railways, the figures were one
to every 2O,000,000 during the same pc
Rod. The much higher speed at which
our trains travel forms, of course, al
important element in any calculation O
the numbers killed in England anC
other countries.