Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-07-02
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II is not gratifying to perceive that hydro
phobia is coming to the fore again. Every
one trembles at this time of year, and the
favored pug of this evening, il he has the
"wofis" that an incipient cold engenders may
be treated tomorrow after the same manner
Mr.. Oily Cannon treated himself Why is
this terrible scourge not more closely watched
by medical men? ! suppose that when rabies
attacks pack of foxhounds, Picpus. NJ. d..
would decline to meet the vet, who is called
in. Yet the matter seems worthy of some
Investigation. Is ii impossible to analyze the
saliva of a mad dog lately dead, and make
| experiments? If it he true that the poisonous
saliva is perfectly nnocuous when applied to
| an unbroken skin, such experiments might
he made with impunity. The other day Dr.
Stradling, of one of the ocean steamers, hav-
ing previously agreed with his brother-doctor
on the remedies to be applied, boldly allowed
a cobra to bite him in the interests of science,
and has happily survived. would hardly
| recommend the gallant doctor to attempt to
achieve immortality in risking the bite of
mad dog. But there is no cure at present for
| hydrophobia.
| Any one who is bitten by dog, mad or
not, is welcome to try the following nostrurn,
which | Gull from the Queens Closet, dated
| 1868
"For the Biting of n Mad Dog, or Sting
| ing of an Adder-Take a handful or more of
hazel nuts, quarter AS much of rue, with a
Glove of garlic stamp all these together;
then take the juice and put little treacle to
| it, and if he be man that is stung or bitten,
| give it him to drink in beer or wine, or ale
but if it be n dog, give it in the milk then
| take that from whence the juice came and
bind i, to the place which bit or stung.'
| have not had occasion to try it mvself
| but il may be infallible.-London World.
The American Swell In London.
There is a good deal Of this American
! swell. One of his peculiarities is that as
sooB as he gets here he begins to cut every
thing American. He agrees with the aver
| age Britisher that Americans are doubtful
cattle, and he drops his acquaintance with
| them in order to square himself with the
| porters. bus drivers and hotel walters with
whom he comes into contact. One Of his
! fancies-his pet fancy-is that nobody would
| suspect him Of being an American. He hugs
| this dear deluson to his bosom till some day
when, having repealed with what he con-
ceives to be ducal hauteur, the proffer of a
red-shirted boot black, ''Give 'em reggiler
| IYankee-D Doodle shine, sir!" the very first
shop he drops into, he is asked by the sauve
l clerk, ''Wot kind o. weather ave you bin
| 'avin' on the other side, sir!'
Less than week Of this sort of thing does
| for the American swell. He begins to hate
the British. He makes impression in a
social way, save on the ladies of the Strand
and Of Haymarket. He concludes that the
political and social system of Great Britain
is sham, and he hies himself away to
Paris.
There are still others who form part of
this American in1ndation, who are neither
swells nor asses, but unmistakably Ameri-
cans who are not ashamed Of their country.
and whose countrymen here are not ashamed
of them. They stay here for time, they
| find much to admire and much more which
thev note down as something to be avoided,
and hen they leave they have made no enc
mics among the English whom they have
encountered, but have learned to like better
the country to which they belong. London
iefferfo Chicago Times.