Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-01-17

MUCH, mucn TO me! Ioll me your
name, signor, that I may love and hon
Or it to the last moment of my life!"
"Men call me Michael Angelo!"
As to the crayon sketch of the miser's
hand, it was taken from Italy by a SOL
der in Napoleon's army and placed in
the Louvre. During the invasion of
1914 it was unfortunately lost, and, 80
far as can be ascertained, has never
been recovered. The story of its pro
duction, however, still fingers among
the traditions of Venice.
HEALTH HINTs.-To obtain a good
nights sleep, sponge the entire length
of the spine for ten or fifteen minutes.
For chapped skin, take of oxide OF
zinc, one dram lard, two ounces. 1t is
also good for any kind of sores.
To cure cOrns, take one measure OF
coal or gas tar, one of saltpeter and one
of brown sugar; mix well. Take a
piece of an old kid glove and spread q
plaster on it the size of the corn and
apply to the part affected; bind on and
leave two or three days, and then re-
move, and the corn will come with it.
To cure lngrowing toe nails, one au-
thority says, put small piece of tallow
in a spoon, heat it until it becomes very
hot, and pour on the granulations. Pain
and tenderness are relieved at once, and
in few days the granulations are all
gone. the diseased parts dry. and grow.
destitute of all feeling, and the edge OF
the nail exposed so as to admit of being
pared away without any Inconvenience.
Each inhalation of pure air is return.
ed laden with poison $50 grains OF 1t
4 j. = II, IF hnd
every hour, 1000 grains during the
night. Unless that poisOn-laden atmos-
phere is diluted or removed by con-
rooms, the blood becomes impure then
circulates sluggishly, accommodating and
pressing on the brain, causing frlghtful
dreams.
Bad cooking is responsible for large
amount of ilI-health, and so is rapid
eating. Few persons chew their food
perfectly fine before swallowing it.
They have, so they think, not time
to eat as they should, and so they
swallow something and 60 about their
work. A writer says three digestions
are known to physio]ogists-mou
Digestion, stomach digestion, bowel
digestion.n To make the first COM
plete, the food should be ground fine by
the teeth and mixed with the saliva and
nothing else; then, and not till then, it
| is ready to be introduced into the stom-
ach, and 90 through the second process.
The stomach is patient, long suffering
organ, but it cannot always do the work
of the teeth and its own too, and from
sheer inability to meet the unjust de
mands forced on it, dyspepsia with all
its annoying train takes possession, the
hapless victim can only mourn over his
unwise haste and repent of his omissions
when it may be too late to repair them
Children especially need to be instruct
| ed as to the necessity of thorough mas
tication of their food, and the habit
formed in them of chewing it fine and
taking ample time to eat.
THE EVILS OF KOT BREAD.-There
is no law in the country to prevent the
consumption of hot bread but the law
of common sense, and unfortunately
that Is dead letter as governing prin-
ciple in the lives of great meDy PEG
pie. That hot bread in nine cases out
of ten will produce dyspepsia is nc
newly discovered fact, and this terrible
result is sure to follow persistent indul-
gence on the part of those whose pur-
suits are quite indoors and sedentary
And yet the reformers, or those who
call themselves such-the men and wo-
men who work themselves into white
heat over the sale of glass of cider-will
go on year after year, not only making
no cutlery against this pernicious indul
gence, but actually filling themselves
up day after day with hot and poison Gus
gases of the oven. This servant of the
housewife can be made as terrible 8
stomach destroyer as the distillery. and
the sworn foes of the latter are apt to be
| its best patrons. Dyspepsia paints the
hose and sours the temper as surely as
dram drinking, and many sufferers
| willful acts, inveigh the most loudly
against the latter A we'll defined case
of jim-jams is the climax to course OF
intemperance, and warns the victim
that this alternative is death or imme-
diate reformation: But the dyspepsia
that hot bread, mince pie and abomina-
tons cause, has no sudden warnings.
The man who uses them goes on max
ing both himself and those around
him wretched, and refuses to acknowl-
edge that he is sinner above those
whose lighter faults he fiercely con-
dennis.
JOAN OF ARC NOT BURNT.-The
London N0nconf 0rnaist says: From
the time of Niebuhr downwards our
historical idols have been one by one
demolished, until little of romance re-
mains in the annals of the civilized
world The last to be assaulted by the
iconoclast is the highly dramatic story
of Joan of Arc, to whom statues hive
been reared, il she has not been actually
canonized by the Romish Church. No
doubt seems to be at present cast upon
the martial exploits of the Maid of Or
leans, for it is upon record in the
archives of the city that she received
two hundred and ten livres from the
town Council for her services at the
siege of that place; but authentic docu..
ments have recently been brought to
light at Meptz which indubitably estab-
lish the fact that the heroic damsel was
not burnt at all. either by the Eng
lish or her own countrymen, but that
she lived to be a respected matron, hav-
ing, in 1886, been married to Sieur de
Hermoise, or Armoise, of Lorraine,
and apparently, as the old romances
say, lived happily ever afterwards, ,
Thus has modern research spoilt
LOuCUluS tragedy, The SuppOScu lTuIu VI
which has been attested by a statue in
the city with which her name is asso-
ciated."
FACTS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
The skin contains more than two mil
lion openings, which are the outlets of
an equal number of sweat glands. The
human skeleton consists of more than
two hundred distinct bones. An amount
of bloodequal to the whole quantity in
the body passes through the heart once
every minute. The iull capacity of the
lungs is about three hundred and TWEEN
ty cubic inches. About two thirds of
pint of air is inhaled and exhaled at each
breath in ordinary respiration. The
stomach daily produces nine pounds of
gastric juice for digestion of food and its
capacity is about five pints. There are
more than 500 separate muscles in the
body. with an equal number of nerves
and blood vessels. The weight of the
heart is from eight to twelve ounces
1t beats 100000 times ia twenty-four
hours. Each respiratory duct is one
fourth Of an inch in length. of the whole
about nine inches. The average man
takes five and one half pounds of food
and drink each day, which amounts to
one ton of solid and liquid nourishment
A man breathes eighteen