The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-08-23


tions must be finally acted on by the
council of the society, the resolution was
vetoed. AT the same meeting the council
confirmed the action of trial committee,
expelling a member for consulting with
an irregular"
1t is not for us, unedueated laymen,
to sit in judgment on those who are learn
ed in the ethics and practice of medicine,
but we cordially approve the sentiment
expressed to us personally few days
since by an eminent physician, that he
would willingly consult with any sensible
physician, and even with an intelligent
nurse, in whom the family of patient
had sufficient confidence, to entrust to
him or her the health and life of friend.
In this connection we call attention to
the tenacity with which doctors of medi
cine hold to their opinions, and we are
led to inquire if there is anything in the
differences between doctors of divinity
or theologians more extraordinary. =
Christians are denounced as bigots or
fanatics when they cast out from their
church those who deny its faith. Do not
even doctors of medicine the same ?-Neao
York Observer.
The following advice on the premature
announcement of Presidential candidates
is given by the Macon Telegrapa.' 1t is
somewhat too early to select Democratic
Presidential candidate for the race of
1884, yet some of the editors have been
engaged in that business. A ticket plant
ed now would be winter-killed before
sprouting time year after next
That the negro is quick to learn is
shown by the following incident related
by Georgia exchange A few days
ago hog, belonging to a negro in Rock
dale county, got out of the pasture and
got into white mans field Under the
Stock law the owner has to pay for dam
age done, so the white man charged the
negro So damages, which was the value of
the hog. The negro told the white man
to take the hog bnt the next night the
hog got out OF the white mans pen and
got into the negros field. He got him
out, carried him home, sent for the white
man and charged him 81 for damage. The
white man refused TO pay it, and the hog
is now the property of the negro. The
hog has changed owners twice, and not a
cent of money has been paid OUT
! Dome AWAY WITH SMOKE AND FLYING
/ CINDERs-Rushford' patent smoke burn
er and spark arrester is now being brought
into use by the great railroad corporations
of this State. 1t is IA very simple arrange
ment and may be attached with slight ex-
perse to any engine. 1t is a semi-eylin
dfical double plate made of boiler iron and
attached to the boiler of the engine by
4 three tubes on either side. 1t is placed
/ directly over the fire and really becomes n
part of the boiler, the steam and water
circulating through it. The principle is
precisely that Of lamp chimney which
regulates the blaze and prevents smoking
4 by eflecting perfect combustion. Not a
| spark cinder, nor visible amount OF
smoke escapes the engine using this in
vention. The unconsumed clouds Of smok
to be seen for miles issuing from the or
4 binary engine, the danger Of forest fires
and the nuisance of flying cnders to pass
1 engers and engineers are made impossible.
A Less fuel is also used when it is employed.
4 One of the most odious aud intolerable
4 monopolies of this country is that of the
! Diamond Match Company, of Whining
/ ton, Delaware, that virtually controls the
entire match business of the country.
/ THIS company has capital of rs, 600, 600,
and is a gigantic concern. Every propo-
1 siton that has been made in Congress for
/ years past, to reduce the tax on matches,
has been frustrated by its efforts. A con
siderable discount is allowed by the gov
/ eminent on very large purchases of match
stamps, and this company is able, by pur-
chasing stamps IN enormous quantities, to
crush out and keep down all opposition.
1t controls the business and fixes such
prices as it chooses. Congress had not
been adjourned an hour when this rapa
cious monopoly sent out circulars to tho
trade increasing the price Of matches from
20 to 100 per cent, and the press of the
country have got hold of, and are making
a noise about IL. Senator Bayard, of Del
aware, is one of the most efficient defen-
deis of the monopoly.
EFFECT OF LAGER BEER ON GOATS -
Recently some Pennsylvania beer sellers
tried the effects of beer on goat. Wheth-
or the experiment was for the purpose of
determining the quality of the beer, or
the constitutional toughness of the goat
is not recorded but the result was fatal
to the goat, Notwithstanding the hardi-
hood for which he is proverbial. just
how many glasses were necessary to ex-
tinguish him, is not mentioned but he
died, and the high quality of the beer
was established beyond the possibility of
\ cavil. But this is not the end of the sto-
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proceeding, and Immediately began an
action against the beer vendors for cruel
ty to animals. The action was undoubt-
eddy justifable, but it is q matter Of won
derment that the same law makers who
have found 1t an oflense to kill goats With
beer, have never once thought of its being
n crime to destroy human beings by the
same means, although there are hun
bred thousand human beings sacrificed
by this means, to one goat. 1t is to be
hoped that the question of prohibition
will be agtated until the human beings
are at least as well protected as goats.
Dir. Baer delivered an address in Vienna
last September, at the ninth annual meet
ing of the German Society of Public
Health, on the abuse of alcohol. DR..
Baer discusses in order the effects of aco-
holc excess on the several organs of the
body, its bearing on insanity and longev-
ity, and on the vability and health Of
children of persons addicted thereto. He
shows that murders, assaults, and crimes
against the person aud suicides prevail
everywhere directly as the consumption Of
spirits, rising and falling with it, even in
such homogeneous populations as that of
France. The most striking example of
this was given by Ireland, where, through
the exertions of Father Mathew, the
consumption of whiskey fell during the
five years, 1888. to 1912, fifty per cent,
4 the crimes of violence falling from Ga, $40
TO 47,027, and the executions from SO in
the first year to in the last. Scarcely
less valuable are the criminal statistics of
the several provinces and states of Ger
many and Austria. The mutual relations
of drunkenness and pauperism, each act