Clarksville daily chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-11-06
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Man Is in danger OF having the dis
orders he imagines and picture to him
self. Luke tells rs that when Jesus was
about to cast out the DEVILS which were
diseases, he suffered them not to speak.
A physician in my circle made it con-
dition Of marriage that his wife should
notread q medical book My old friend
King came into the house one day and
said he was sick He then sat down at
the table and broke out laughing, saying
he was only hungry Had he at once
been told that he was threatened with
typhus fever and put to bed by an
alarmed Woman and seriously treated as
if sick he would, am sure, have had a
run Of fever instead of going out as he
die IN the afternoon into the woods.
Just such power as this has our
fancy i'll bringing on diseases"
MY minister" said one ''at funerals
so dwells or all the apparently gloomy
aspects of the scene, and SO harrows up
our feelings and clouds us with grief
that he cannot be trusted with the
corpse.
The poet Bryant bids us go forth into
nature when thoughts of the last bitter
hour come over US, and the Apostle Paul
tell US to think only of Whatsoever
things are pure, Lowell. and of good
repute. The power of thought and mind
is the great specific for bodily preserva-
ton. How many we have known like
those American Psalmists, Dana, Bry-
ant and Emerson, so frail-looking, but
not infrm at 20, while younger giants
fell about them. The power of thought
and mind preserved their physical be.
ings.
A physician should always be a man
Of pure morals and character, for none
other were fitted to treat the sick. A
spirit of benefcence, kindness and light
should always radiate from the physi-
clans person, and he should always en-.
deavor to console and encourage, and
never discourage patient.
Bridge over the straits of Mossina.
[Iron Agel
In the exhibition now open at Turin,
says a foreign exchange, the directors Of
the Novara 4 Pine railway show the
drawings and plans for the projected
bridge over the straits of Messina. The
narrowest portion of the straits is two
miles across, but the depth there is 521k
feet, while the shallowest part, which is
361 feet deep, runs between Cap dol
Pezzo and Granzirri. Although the
distance across the latter point is half
mile greater than at the narrowest por.
ton of the straits, its greater shallow
ness has caused it to be selected as the
spot for the bridge.
In addition to double line of rails,
it is intended to make the bridge wide
enough to include road for ordinary
carriage traffic. The viaduct will be
supported by two land towers and three
piers, each $3.50 feet apart. The founda-
ton of the three piers will DO con-
structed of granite ballast up to within
seventy-five and one. half feet of the sur.
face of the water, and of granite ma
sonry, the latter being carried to thirty
three feet above the water. The bridge
will terminate on either shore in tower
shaped piers, constructed also of granite
with the ordinary dry foundations The
height of the bridge above the water will
be 1913 feet. The entire upper portion
of the bridge is to be built of steel, and
the construction is to be carried out in
the same way as the bridge over the
Mississippi at St. Louis.