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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-04-08
MORPHINE PARTIES.

hear of morphine parties Of the small
and-early kind III the niger couches sociaIes.
those invited to such little gatherings are
known to the hostess as being in the habit
of resisting ills to which flesh is heir by
simultaneous injections of the narcotic
above named. The injection is performed
with little instrument, the manufacture OF
which is passing from tho surgicaLinstru'
nent maker to the jeweller, and is becom.
ing an object dart. Guests and the lady
Of the house sit in circle, and listen to a
concert in distant room. They describe
their sensations to each other. Noyices de-
rive peculiar beauty from the morphinizing
process. One sees in many of the portraits
1t the Mirliton the traces of morphine in
The general morbidezza Of the faces and the
brownish circles that surround eyes which are
at once brilliant and softly languishing. II
may be remembered that the late Duchesse
de Chaulnes killed herself with subcutan-
eous injections Of morphine. She resorted
to them to soothe irritated nerves and vary
her undoubted beauty, and had to continue
them because it was impossible for her to
leave them of. / know of o confirmed NOR
PHO maniac, who would not for the world eat
two kinds of meat on the same day in Lent
or indulge in the pleasure of waltz. The
Archbishop Of Paris will, I take it, soon
issue pastoral against the fashionable mar.
sotic.-Paris Letter TO London Truth.
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PORTRAIT OF A DRUMMER.
The Man Who Is Commercial from the
TopmOst Curl 10 the Tip OF the Toe.


The drummers are among the most vigor-
Gus, handsome and useful portions of the
West. They keep up the hotels and row
they are keeping up skating Kinks. What
the coachman is to New York and the ar.
dent young girl, the drummer is to embryo
Western society. He makes his appearance
like comedian or tragedian, he has the
best roller skates, his instincts are social,
beauty never frightens him away. All day
he addresses himself to getting on the in
side of the local tradesman and that night
he addresses himself TO the bridesmaids
sisters and aunts. You can see them, it is
said, tumbling of a railroad train at some
certain station and Immediately collaring
the hickman or the ticket agent there and
demanding Have you got a skating rink
In this town? ~ No" Then before the
astonished resident comprehends the ques.
ton the drummers are all back on the trair
again, moving for the next town, where
there is skating rink and social openings.
lie must be pretty smart and bright.
minded and well-behaved citizen in town
| not to find some time or other his most
dreaded rival in The drummer. The drum
mer is particular about his attire. He wears
if not an expensive scarf-pin, very taste
ful and stunning one his scarf is of the
best colors and at once strikes the Young
resident woman with his superior knowledge
OF decoration. He wears n ring ON his
finger; sometimes of prime material again,
inexpensive but bewildering. He keeps his
nails moderately long and exceptionally
clean in bituminous coal country. He
only has to dive into his trunks and weai
his own samples to cut out the best dressed
man in the community he visits He is
splendid packer of trunk and his trunks
are stupendous Perhaps he has put away
in them little articles to make presents of
when he has made mash at the skating
rink. He has photograph of tho latest
actress or small chrome containing the
latest joke
II he is not an educated man he is in
formed especially on things of local inter-
est. If there is celebrated beauty in the
town, or late scandal case, or high-cass
lefalcation, he delights the young woman
whom he meets at the rink with the fineness
Of his criticism and his parallel readings.
He always shaves beautifully and waxei
his moustache, unless he wears full beard
when he is absolutely formidable. Unde
TERED in business, he is invincible in insin.
uation and sentiment If he is a small man
he has twinkle about him which makes
him look six feet high. If he is big man
he has softness which brings him down to
the eye-lashes and nose of the local coquette
He is no snob and no respecter of persons,
and therefore never impresses anybody as
putting on eirs yet bores avoid him and
high responsibility, at first shrinking from
him, is finally conquered by his good nature
and worldly sense Cincinnati Enquiries.
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READY REMEDIES,

Every workshop should keep some ready
appliances for accidents, when proven.
lives against accidents are not sufficient.
Most shops have their own local remedies,
better Mt home than elsewhere, and general
ly favorably regarded when tested. So it
would be improper to advertise any one
remedy as better than another. But there
are general remedies, of which there can be
no question. A tincture of arnica is known,
the world over, as remedy for bruises,
burns, scalds and fresh wounds, as an ex-
ternal application SO is the salve of dia-
,hylum used in all portions of the country.
There is also common sticking plaster
that may be bought in sheets or rolls, which
is very useful in cuts and bruises. This is
not the " court plaster in common toilet
use, but q solid basic linen, with healing
salve spread on it, that may be obtained at any
apothecary's shop. Many CHASTITY wounds
that would leave, in healing, livid and Of
fensive scars are reduced and made merely
trifing in character by timely application
of adhesive plaster. There should be, in
every shop and mandatory, some ready
means of prompt attention to wounds, and
men should be designated to antedate the
arrival of the surgeon. There are plenty OF
such men in our shops amply competent
for the occasion if selected for the work.
Scientific american.
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THE PHYSICIANS IDEA,
He Denies the Utility of NATURAL SPRING.
In Gases of Dyspepsia Etc.


Tho idea that dyspepsia, blood and skin
diseases of a certain variety, rheumatism,
govt and other ailments, will succumb only
to the dirty mud baths of tho Hot Springs,
the chalybeate waters of Carlsbad, tho boil
ing springs of Baden or the all-healing vir.
tues of the atmosphere at Nickanickanich
still fingers. Every year in consequence
hundreds of invalids, real and imaginary,
bctake themselves to some supposed health.
giving resort in the hope of lettering their
condition. This end they generally attain,
albeit by the adoption of methods which, if
they were observed at home would produce
a similar result.
Said well-known practitioner to repre-
sentative of the Mail and Express the other
day, " 1 have lost much patience and many
patients, too, if you will pardon the pun,
by trying to be honest with my patrons.
Honesty may be the best policy, but must
say that sometimes 1t would be ruinous to
practise it, Unless | scare some of my
patients almost to death and give them lest
than twenty-four hours to get away from
tho tainted and impure atmosphere of thi,
horrible city, cannot get them to do any.
thing toward establishing q euro.
az advise certain regimen. They listen
but do not heed SO long as l let them re-
main in their own home. But let mo tel
them that nothing can cure them but visit
to some distant place-then they pack up al
once, md there follow tho advice, which, il
observed at home, would certainly restore
their lost vitality. If you want to effect O
cure, first frighten your patients almost to
death and perhaps you can get them to dc
as you bid them Tricks in oil trades my
boy, but ours"
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An "Old womnn'sn Remedy.

DIR. Amos Sawyer writes to the st. Louis
Medical and Surgical Journal. about
quarter of a century ago, when giving me
some good advice for young practitioner
to follow, the late DR.. B. f. Edwards, of
st. Louis, Mo-, whose accuracy in the
measurement of the action of remedies,
truth in the statement, and justice toward
the members of the profession, made him
shining light in the early history of our
State, among other things said Never
make fun of an old woman's remedy, foi
not only will you give offence and thereby
injure your practise to the extent of her in
huence, but you may throw away what
would have proved upon trial to be yalua-
BILE adjunct in your practice. He then cited
this case to illustrate the importance of his
injunction In 1880, while practising in
Madison County, ILL.,, I was induced by the
representations of an old woman to make
the trial, in dysentery and darrhoea, of
tablespoonfull-doses of pure cider vinegar,
with the addition of sufficient salt to be
noticeable, and il acted so charmingly that
I have never used anything else.' He was
prescribing ii in 1870, making period Of
forty years.
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81 wonder If old Uncle Dick piled his
own cordwood this winter ?" said a member
yesterday, ps he looked toward the Cover
nor's mansion, while struggling through the
storm toward the State House. "Did he
ever pile his cordwood p asked another.
- Yes in the winter of 1866, when he was
Governor. He bought 10 cords of woods of
a farmer, who was to cord the wood in the
Governors yard. After three cords had
been piled Oglesby inspected the job, and
was evidently dissatisfied. You are piling
that wood too loosely he said to the
farmer You must do it better than thai
or won't pay for it. BY the time you get
il piled in that manner there won't be more
than eight cords in what you haul in for TO-
1.-THE farmer replied that he guessed he
could cord wood as well as any man, and
challenged the Governor to do it any better
or to make less out of it. And when he had
brought the wood all in Uncle Dick corded
Il over again--every stick of it-piled il
into eight cords, and made the farmer bring
in two cords more. tell you Uncle Dick
knows as much about piling wood as he
does about Illinois politics."
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TlckIed "a pea,I,.

The degree of annoyance caused by
small object like hair, grain of sand or
q tiny splinter depends entirely on the loca-
ton. All are not ticklish or representative
At the same place. Some can be thrown
into paroxysms by tickling the feet with o
straw, others go into spasms il q feather is
drawn under their nose, while others almost
take fit if tickled in the ribs. 1t is said
that the most exquisitely horrible torture
practised during the inquisiton was that OF
tickling the feet of sensitive heretics. Every
nerve in the entire body was set on endand
made to dance at a maddening pace. This
must have been the refinement of torture
indeed. In order to satisfy your curiosity
on this score have your hands securely tied
and your head held firmly, while some one
slowly, gently tickles your nose with
feather, or even q hair. You will soon con-
,lude that death would be preferable to
continuance of the torture. - itts6utg Dis
patch.
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ABOUT BILloUsNESs.
Some Hints Which may Interest Those
Who Are Unhappy About Their
Liver.

Il has been estimated that five persons go
70 the physicians of this city every minute
in the day complaining of biliousness. BY
this reckoning it will appear that there il
here small army of sufferers from this com.
plant therefore it may be profitable to con.
sider'briefy the causes and cure of this ap
parcntly common trouble.
Liver disorders ought naturally to be at
the foundation of all hillary arrangements,
and as organic diseases of this organ are es-
sentially chronic and often progress steadily
from bad to worse, it is plain that only
small proportion of bilious persons are so
affected, for the reason that this class of
patients very usually get well. This refers
mainly to male patients. Women never get
well from liver troubles. At all events, ifa
women is once told by the doctor that her
liver is affected, she will believe him and
persistently suffer therefrom until another
doctor comes along, who declares point
blank, and perhaps truthfully, that nothing
ails that organ.
The furred tongue, loss of appetite and
wish were dead " feeling of those who
!hink they are bilious are well known, and
to make long story short the best way to
explain these matters is to attribute them to
arrangement of the circulation of the
blood affecting every organ in the body, in
Guiding the liver.
This much is probable because measures
calculated to re-establish the circulation are
of great service to these quasi invalids.
By this is meant brief abstinence from
food general bath followed by friction OF
the surface Of the body; the use, if indi.
Gated, of laxative articles of food occasional
draughts of hot water, sweetened and fiav.
pred, if desired, and regularly washing the
mouth on rising with hot salt water, using
the index finger in preference to a brush.
Abstinence is useful in many cases, be-
cause indigestion is the real trouble. Baths,
followed by frictions, are very grateful to
the disturbed circulatory apparatus. Laxa-
i've articles of food are often agreeable and
are preferable TO medicine when they will
sffect the same end. Hot draughts are
now popular. They can do no harm and
will certainly do good in the cases prone to
chill.
Washing the mouth is of great service 10
those who suffer persistently with coated
tongue and ugly taste In the mouth. Change
OF air, scene and diet are also valuable
measures for those who are said to be bill
ious, and in these days Of cheap and con.
venient railroading are easily applied.
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SUCCESSFUL soNo-MAKlNo.
How n street Singer Has Biossomed Into
POPULAR Comnoenr.


What is the latest popular ballad ~
" Vaniti, replied the publisher. Frank
Howard, the author of I'll Await My Love
and Only Pansy Blossom, wrote it that
is he wrote as much of it as he did of the
others have mentioned. He is a ballad
singer with Thatcher, Primrose & Vests
Minstrels and his income from song royal
ties is between $500 and 800 week. No
he is not remarkable musician. He un
derstands music and has o nice voice. Hun
dreds of better musicians fail as writer's OF
songs. Howard is the son of an Iowa clergy
man. Half dozen years ago Milt Barlow,
the minstrel, found the young man travel
ling with liver pad peddler in the West.
Howard by his singing drew the crowds and
then gave way to his partner, who sold the
pads. Barlow was struck by the sweetness
of Towards voice and hired him for twenty
five dollars week to sing in Barlow, Will
son, Primrose Il Vests Minstrel Company.
His voice and his songs made him popular
and he now receives 300 o week salary,
The way his songs are composed would ns.
tonish many better musicians. Howard
will write the words of a song and then
with three or four members of the company
will proceed to hammer O suitable air out
Of the hotel pianos. They will work hour
after hour for days, correcting, changing
and culling out bar after bar until they at
last agree that an appropriate air has been
made. Then it is written out and tried in
public. If at all successful, Howard sends
copy to his publisher and 1t is put upon
the market. There is story among min
strels that Howard paid another singer,
Harry Talbot, twenty dollars for the word.
and music Of I'll Await My Love. If so Il
was good piece of judgment ON Howardl
part, for he has made two or three thousand
dollars out of that song alone"
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LATTER AND JEWELS.
How a Chicago Shaving Brush Sarpriacd
n Chicago Shaver.

There was much talk and considerable
mild excitement among many residents on
Indiana avenue this morning, when details
Of " diamond find in that vicinity be-
came known. Three or four years ago q
story appeared in the papers to the effect
that quantity of diamonds had been SNUG
gled into New York concealed in the hand
les of shaving brushes. Among those who
read the story was a young man named
William P. Williams, who at that time re-
sided in Buffalo, and who is ct present in
business here, and boards ct No. 1878 In
diana avenue. Among the chattels appro-
printed by Mr.. Williams when leaving home
at Buffalo was a shaving brush, hitherto the
property of his father. It was an ordinary
article with white bone handle. One Sun.
day morning recently, when Williams was
preparing to shave he heard something rat
tie inside the handle. He drew the atten-
ton of his roommate, N. E. Rutter TO it,
and related the story of the struggled dia-
monds. There was some joking about the
diamonds Williams had in Lis shaving
brush" and there the m after dropped until
Sunday morning last. Mr.. e. N. Tracy,
who boards at the same address, Glanced to
be present, in Williams room when the lot
ter was mixing his lather and Williams told
Tracy the diamond story. Mr.. Tracy be-
came very much interested, and Williams
jokingly offered to sell the brush for $5.
Tracy did not care to invest so much in o
shaving brush lottery, but asked permission
TO break the handle. Williams said :. All
right, smash it and you can have half of all
the diamonds you find" Mr.. Tracy crunch.
ed the handle under his heel and there, gilt.
tering in the fragments, shone two good
sized diamonds. A hasty consultation was
held. The idea was to have the diamonds
quietly submitted to nm expert and their
value determined, but the affair was made
public, Messrs. Williams and Tracy are be-
Ing kept busy setting up the cigars and
lemonade for their friends on the strength
Of their good luck. Mr.. Williams divides
the spoil with his friend, according to
promise. All the shaving brushes in the
district are being broken up. but no further
finds have been reported.
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The first indulgence is in some sense
legitimate ia almost enforced, either by
acute pain or by chronic insomnia The
latter is perhaps the most dangerous. The
pain, if 1t last for weeks, forces recourse to
the doctor before the habit has become in
durable. Sleeplessness is q more persistent,
and to most people a much less alarming
thing and it is moreover one with which
the doctors can seldom deal save through
the very agents of mischief. Neuralgia, re-
lieved for time by chloroform or morphia,
may be cured by quinine; sleeplessness
admits of hardly any cure but such COM
plete change of life as is rarely possible, at
least to Its working victims. And the mar
,otist habit once formed, neither pain nor
sieeplessness is all that its remuneration
would involve. The drunkar6, il must be
remembered, gets drunk, Ms q rule, but oc-
casionally. Save in the last stages of Dip
somania he can do, II not without drink, yet
without intoxicating quantities of drink, for
days together. The nareotist who attempts
to go for whole day without his accus.
toned dose suffers in "a hours far more
cruelty than the drunkard deprived of al
cohol in rs many days. The effect upon
The stomach and other organs, upon the
nerves as well as on the brain, is one Of
indescribable, unspeakable discomfort
amounting to torture; q disorder of the
digestive system more trying than sea sick.
ness, disorganization Of the nerves which
after some hours of unspeakable misery
eliminates in convulsive twitchings, in
mental and physical distress, simply indies
crible to those who have not felt it. Where
attempts have been made forcibly and sud
denly to Withhold the accustomed sedative
they have not unfrequently ended within Q
few days in madness or DEATH In Other
cases the victim has sought and obtained
relief by efforts and through hardships
which, in his or her best days would have
seemed impossible or uncomfortable. One
woman thus restrained escaped in deshabille
from her bedroom on winter night Of
arctic severity ran for miles through the
snow and was fortunate enough to find q
chemist who knew something of the fearful
effect of such privations, and had the sense
and courage to give in adequate quantity
the poison that had now become the first
necessity of life. In word, narcotics, one
and all are, to those who have once fallen
under their power, tyrants whose hold can
hardly ever be shaken of, which punish
rebellion with the rack, and with all those
devices of torture which medieval and &C.
clesiastical cruelty found even more terrible
than the rack itself while the most abso-
lutte submission is rewarded with sufsrings
only lese uncomfortable than the punishmsnt
Of revolt.
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TRADE IN SKELETONS.
| The Human Frame Set and SeId.-y Meet
Specimens Imported From France.


Pedestrians on William street have had
their attention called to the window Of A
dealer in surgical instruments the past sew
eral months by the complete skeleton of q
human form sitting bolt upright in a chair
at one corner. Close beside it is skull on
which is the placard, Alas Poor Yorick I"
When asked regarding the trade in this
curious kind Of merchandise by Mail and
E:rprsss reporter, the dealer said:
Sell many of them? Yes, sir; COM
paratively speaking we sell lots of them, al
though you don't see the article quoted in
the market reports. Why, we usually are
obliged to carry on hand a stock of from
twenty-five to forty skeletons and q com.
plete line OF skulls. We sell them to muse
ans. medical colleges and physicians.
!" The price of a skeleton varies from $50
to $50, according to it's perfection and com.
pleteness. The demand 10 not very large !;
from 300 to 400 year is probably the limit
of the number Of complete skeletons sold in
this country. Our sales are about $50 q
year.
A curious feature of the trade is that
all that are sold are imported. They come
from Paris, where regular business ia
done in preparing them for the trade. Near.
ly all the skeletons imported to this country
come to this city. Where do they get them /?
Oh, from morgues and the many cases of
suicides that occur in France"
Why cannot they be procured in this
country?" was asked.
There is no establishment of the kind
in this country thnt know of and the rea-
son is that orr people do not seem to have
the facilities oi inclination to 60 into this
kind Of business. Besides, it necessitates
costly outlay and the business here is not Of
sufficient size to make IL pay. few years
ago Frenchman did come over here with
The idea of starting the business. He did
n"''r start in Philadelphia, but soon had
|, 6 it up after considerable loss, for he
co. Nh make it pay.
That skeleton you noticed in the win
dow is from France. 1t is a defective one,
SO we have had it on exhibition there. II
attracts no little notice, and the other day
man came in here and with sympathy ex.
pressed on his face asked where that ran
used to live. We told him il was French
man whose first appearance this side OF the
Atlantic was probably in this manner. The
visitor went away raying that his sympathiea
we're quite aroused over the poor skeleton
lifting there in that painful position day
after day, when he ought to be lying q resi-
in his grave"