The Osceola times., 1884-04-19
Feofs Notes.
Or Fo.o,e'. Healih Monfbly.


To avert q sly. paint il over carefully
with iincture 81 iodine, using q small
camels-hzir brush 20 as 70 avoid touch
ing the eyeball.
The sun New YORK reports that
number Of car1rvers were cJmparing
experience a. 10 the bcst beverages FOR
cold weather, aud the majority agreed
tina; hot oDfee vas the leAs- hurtfull aid
mOet lasting" Hot ALCOHOLICS. rum and
whisky, had been literally tined, but
not recommended.
The French have found that when
pork il thoroughly szlted even the
trichinous parasites are DESTROYED. and
50 they have reseinded the decree pro
hibiting the importation Of salt PORK
from America. Ne think il was Samuel
Tilden who once recommended the In
dian corn Of America 70 the people OF
France. They would find IT jus, a. nu-
iritiOus and palslable az salt pork, and
they would not have 10 take il with q
percentage Of parasites dead or alive.
Dr. Carlos Finlay. of Hqvana, Cuba.
thinks he has seen by aid OF the micro
scope the probc7cis Of a mosquito c0yer-
ed with spores Of a peculiar form, after
biting q patient with yellow fever and
he therefore suspe Z tha, he disease
may be transmitted by this lively insect.
Since cats may have aud probably dis
seTninate scarlet fever. and sparrOws
SMALLPOX, we are pretty much al the
mercy Of our domestic animals, fowl
and yeruin, when epidenies prevail.
I : n i
prooesses which is least subject To the
control 0r influence Cf Nill-p0Wer but
there was one exceptional case. an Eng
lshman, who co1ld voluntarily check
the hearts beat and pulse, and finally
he exhibited this power 20 efieciually
tna, he died by it. 4 physician in Har-
risOu, Ohio, has met healthy German
who can exercise this checking Of the
heart. and who wants % make it profit
able BY exhibitions Of his curious pow
er. Unless he has equal ability to start
up the machine again after putting on
the brakes, he has what may preve to he
a fatal capacity.
D. Fl. Hopkinr n. Of The Jewellers
Circular. SAYS tha II is well known
fact that no watcl will keep the same
time with two peo le. He believes that
il is in some way 'e TO the tempera-
ment Of the weareI as he saws the mere
physical difference in gait and move
ment between diff -ent people is not
sufficient 70 account for al the varia-
tons that have been observed. As watch
es are affected by the machines for gem
Grating electric light and are magnet
lied in iron mines 50 as to affect their
time keeping i; is probable that the
watch is affected by the magnetism Of
the individual who carries it.
The new wear brings the customary
annual statistics and reports of board Of
health and institutions. As usual they
are startling. The number Of deaths
from casualties throughout the world is
not over-estimated at one hundred and /
fifty thousand, including the victims Of
volcanoes, foods. fires, etc. Z
New York City has nearly thirty-four
thousand deaths, including twenty per-
soRs reported TO be one hundred years
old. or deaths about one-tenth were
caused by Bright's disease. which must
either be on the increase or more fire.
luently diagnosed than il used TO be.
Though only one death is attributed TO
poisoning by rye whisky, probably many
Eases Of Bright's disease are caused or
hurri d 10 their end by good old rye"
there is "mote in your rye
which speeds your end, view it as you
may.
The adulteration Of milk with glucose
is understood in Europe as well as in
America. AL these modern improve
ments, where they enable the retail
merchants TO turn a dishonest penny,
have become generally popu ar.
From The Scientific Americans we
learn that there are about seventeen
thousand dentists in the United States
who use a ton of gold annually in filling
teeth. Atthis rate all the gold must
eventually find its way TO the grave
yard.
The Textile Record gives a formula so
luton By which cloth can be made wa 4
.erprOof, n immersed in il and then thor /
Dugbly dri, d. II is composed of gelatine I
i've parts, soap five, alum seven and wa
Ter one hundred and seventy parts. 1t 1
h said that this causes the fibres OF the /
10th TO repel drops Of water Is do feath-
srs.
According 70 the report Of ths Analyst
If Tae Municipal LAborat Dry, almost
very article Of drink and diet in Paris |