Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14

ing after having done so on the edge of
the bowl. The cat, seeming to appre-
clate the situation, with a single swift
movement caught the fly and dropped it
into the mouth of its finny friend. The
latter then submitted contentedly to the
back scratching endearment which it
had before resented. Mr.. BrinckerhOff
ascertained from his little girl that the
comPanionship had existed for some
weeks, but she had feared to tell of it.
as her negligence had allowed its forma-
tion.-PhiL0deL0hja Times.
A GOOD DOG STORY,
Maj. William Wise is the proud father
of two lively boys, named Leopold and
John, aged respectively Ia and II years.
Like all boys of that age, they are fond
of dogs and are the joint owners of two
one large Newfoundland and the other
diminntive poodle. Yesterday morn
ing, when the boys started, the poodle
followed them, and, emulating the ex-
ample of Mary's little lamb, tried to en-
ter the precincts of the recitation. room
at the Gilpin School, at Twenty ninth
and Stout. The janitor glanced over
the regulations and saw it was against
the rules. In plain, prosaic English, he
tried to make the dog go home, and not
beingsas successful as he expected, SHE'D
q shovel and broom at the canine, where
upon the two boys turned in and gave
him O good drubbing. The poodle
jumped out of the yard, and the big
| Newfoundland coming along lifted him
gently in his mouth and carried him to
the kennel.at Maj. Wise's residence
Denver Tribune.
CAUSE AND CURE OF Badness.
0. Lassar has continued his Observa-
tions on the nature of premature bald
ness, and has further convinced himself
OF the communicating of at least the
form associated with dandruff. When
the hairs which fall off in such cases are
collected, rubbed up with vaseline, and
the ointment so made is rubbed among
the fur Of rabbits or white mice badness
rapidly makes itself visible on the parts
SO treated. That this is not due to the
vaseline was shown by amounting other
animals with the vaseline alone, which
produced no effect whatever. He con-
siders that the disease is spread by hair
dressers, who employ combs aud brush
es to their customers, one after another,
without any regular cleansing to these
articles after each time they are used.
| During frequent visits to the hairdress-
ers, it can scarcely fail that brushes are
used which have been shortly before
dressing the hair of one affected with so
common complaint as scaly badness.
Females, he thinks, are less often affect
| cd with this form of badness, because
the hairdresser> more frequently attends
to them at their own homes, and there
uses their combs and brushes. In order
| to prevent, as far as possible, the COM
mencement of alopecia premature, the
hair should be cut and dressed at home
| and with ones own implements, and
these thoroughly clean. When it has
begun, the following mode of treatment
is suggested: The scalp is to be daily
well soaped with tar or fluid glycerine
potash soap, which is to be rubbed infor
fifteen minutes firmly. The head is then
to be drenched with, first, warm water,
and then gradually colder water. A two
per cent corrosive sublimate lotion is
next to be pretty freely applied. The
head is then to be dried, and the roots
of the hair are to have half per cent.
solution of napthol in spirit rubbed into
them. Finally, pomade of one and
half to two per cent. carbOlic or salicylic
oil is to be used to the head. This
treatment has now in many cases
brought the disease not only to a stand,
but the hair has been to considerable
extent restored.