The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-24

sary for the health of the patient, and
every druggist to take similar oath not
to put up or sell any such article except
by prescriptions, duly signed, by a
practicing physician. Under this law
no one can buy spirits of camphor,
cologne Or ftavoring extracts except
upon physicians prescription.
The British consul at Philadelphia
having informed his government that
100000 hogs had died of trichina, in
one year, and many persons killed by
the same disease, and it appearing that
only 400, 900 died last year of all dis
eases and only thirteen persons in fifteen
years of trichinn, the British minister
at Washington admits that the state
ments of the British consul were g ex-
aggerated," but not entirely without
foundation. The same, facetiously re-
marks the Detroit Free Press, might be
said of tEsop's Fables or the 6: Arabian
Nights
The advocates of cremation, as an
economical and sanitary mode of dis
posing Of the dead, appear to be in
creasing III number aud confidence It
is now proposed to establish a crema-
| tory in Brooklyn, a gentleman having
rendered plat of land there for that
purpose. Steps have been taken to or
game a society for the construction and
operation of the crematory, with an as
ISOLATED society for collecting, collating
and publishing information in relation
| fn o,,I Sc
expected that the expense of cremation
may ultimately be reduced as low as five
| dollars.
Peace is far from the minds of the
European powers, if we may Judge by
the condition Of things in the immense
Krupp gun works in Germany. These
| factories are in a state of feyerish
activity. The numerous buildings have
received more additions, the army of
employees has been increased, and work
is carried on day and night The next
country to have an order filled is
Roumania for which 100 field guns,
with complete accouterments, have been
IN process of manufacture. Greece will
come next with 700 field pieces, com
pletely equipped. Next in order is
Sweden, with fifty field guns, Holland
with 100, and Italy with 400 siege
guns.
=" The people ask for sign, and no
sign shall be given unto Them cannot
be said Of the Chicago people. A firm
there has just put up sign costing
81, 500, and the conceited Chicago folks
claim that it is the most expensive sign
ever put up in this country. It is $50
feet long and five and half feet wide.
1t took 1000 feet Of lumber and $40
days work to complete it. -Four hun
dred dollars worth of gold and $3.50 of
metal ornaments were used in it's con-
struction. Chicago is mistaken about
It's being the most expensive sign. A
New York man had sign that fell one
windy day and nearly killed a man. The /
owner of the Sign had to pay 81, 800 I
and costs, which makes that sign the |
most expensive as far as heard from:
The foresters' department in the Brit
1sh East Indies is said to be the largest
and best managed of any in the world.
1t IS now proposed to bring one of the
foresters from that country to srlpe1in-
tend the forests of Great Britain. and
have arboricr1lture Taught students there,
as has long been done in France, Ger
many and Switzerland. We wish. saws
the Rnw -Ner Yorker, such a school
could be established by the United
States government. A lamentable de-
has long been going on in our
forests ever since the settlement of the
country. # they were annually thinned
out as needed, in a judicious way. in I
stead OF being mercilessly slashed down :
by the wholesale; they would furnish all ,
The wood and timber We want, and still !
keep up the necessary growth from the s
Younger trees for futule requirements. {
fermentation is a process Of nature I
going on all the time and producing a d
greater OF less degree of alcohol. The !
amount Of alcohol produced bv fer +
in bread is scientifically +
lemoDstrable, though practically map a
1reciable; in the light wines it varies :.
rom five to ten per cent. In many of 4
he wines it IS quite sufficient to produce +,
certain degree OF intoxication. The &
fleet Of the wine OH the human body g
altogether upon the char "
cter and temperament of the person. 4 u
1ngle glass viii produce more effect on s,
ONE persons than d whole bottle on II
'thers. Oscillation is modern pro h
ess, by which the alcohol is extracted r.
rom the grape juice or other substance 81
it. The distilled liquors, Of
um, gin, brandy, whisky and the Ike, :
ossess, therefore, large amount of is
lcohol, reaching in brandy, for ex- q,
mple, fifty per cent, and sometimes q
lore.
The -4nsrican Register, of Paris til
casts, and not without reason. adds IT
le English journal, Lnud and HIaer, OF
the slow but sure manner in which ma
merican goods are forcing their way tn
ito and successfully competing in all VIC
reign markets with European Ella,u- fas