The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-01-20
CURIOUS CHRONICLES.
QUEER CURRENCY.

from the saloon bar to the church
contribution-box. The old bounty OF
fifty cents each on woodchucks was
until recently paid by the Selectmen
of the adjoining towns of Avon and
Canton.in the Litchfield Mountains of
Connecticut. In Avon the tails are
required for vouchers, in Canton the
ears. b accident il was found that
the woOdchuck bills of the two towns
for a given period were the same. Fol
lowing up the clew, the farmer-boy
hunters were discovered to be collect
ing two prices for one animal, offer
ing the ears to one set of selectmen
and the tai.s to those of the next.
There is at present no tariff on wood
chucks in the Litch6eld Mountains,
and local crises are impending. These
are stories that recall the days of
Davy Crockett and his electioneering
tours. Also one of the three stock
humorous efforts of a certain noted
temperance orator.
WATER.
The muscles of the body are about
three-fourths water; the cartilage.
three-6fths; the brain and nerves
blood, each four fifths. The lymph
is nearly all water (ninety-seven hun
dredths). Even the bones are one
tenth water. Of the body, as a
whole, sixty-eight parts out of one
hundred are water.
Moreover. water, not only consti-
tutes the larger part of all the secre-
tons, but it holds in solution all the
various elements of which the body is
renewed, and is a flowing stream to
receive again aud carry away the
waste which is as constantly thrown
off at every point. Further, without
it the chemical changes in constant
progress in every issue would be i'm
possible.
New the water of the body is no
more fixed than are its solids. Like
the latter, having done its work once,
it enters into the great waste current,
and is thrown from the body through
the skin, the kidneys and the lungs,
at an average of over ten pounds
day.
Keeping these facts in view, the
reader will see why water is so much
more essential to life than food-a
man being able to live several times
as long without the latter as without
the former. The following facts, con-
densed from the American Journal
of Medical Science, indicate the
suferings consequent on a brief with
holding of this fluid.
In 1877 forty American troopers
in pursuit of Indians lost their way,
and for three days failed to find
water. The second day, some fell
from their horses exhausted. The
third day, the most loathsoms fluid
would have been hailed with delight.
The salivary and mucous fluids had
utterly failed, and the men were una
bic to swallow their bread. All were
affected with vertigo, dimness of
vision and deafness. Many were
ielirious.
Their breathing became difficult,
md they had sense of suffocation. |
Their fingers and palms were shrivel-
d and pale. Their minds became
Elected, so that they grew suspicious
# each other.
On the fourth night they were un-
bic to sleep. When, the next day,
water was reached and drank, for q
While it was vomited up as fast as it
Tas swallowed, and the thirst remain
d Unsuitable until the remotest
issues of the body had obtained
upply.-Youth's Companion.
TOBACCO SMOKE.
DIR. Tulinski has published in
Warsaw medical journal the results
t long series of experiments made
y him both upon human beings and
nimals with view of verifying the
psychological effects of tobacco smoke.
lie found in the Grst place that it is a
istlnct poison evsn in small doses.
Jpon men its action is very light
then not inhaled in large quantities
ut it would soon become powerful If
ne smoker got into the habit of
swallowing the smoke" and DIR.
ulinski ascertained that this t. .xical
is not due exclusively to the
icOtine but that tobacco smoke even
'heu disengaged of the nicotine con-
aims second toxical principle called
Olidene and also oxide of carbon and
ydrocyanic acid. The effects pro-
uced by tobacco depend, he ssys, to
great extent upon the tobacco and