Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-11
TRUTHS TERSELY PUT.

The foundation of three-fourths of all
cases of consumption is laid before the age
of twenty five years; in women during their
teens.
The hereditary element is not of special
account rs cause of consumption, as less
than twenty-five per cent of cases are clearly
ofconsumptive parentage.
One of the ruling causes of disease and
premature death in large cities is found in
that exhaustive strain of mental energies in
the struggle for subsistece, death race for
bread.
A current of the purest air from the poles,
for half an hour, on a person sleeping, SIT
ting still or over-heated, is a thousand fold
more destructive of health and fatal to lie
than the nOisomeneSs of crowded room or
vehicle, or the stencil ola pig-stye for thrice
the time.
AS no good traveller after having fed his
horse, renews his journey in Il trOt, but
with slow walk, gradually increasing his
pace, so in getting up to address an assem-
bly, for continued effort, the first few SEN
tences should be uttered in a low, slow tone,
gradually intensified, otherwise the voice
will break down in a few minutes with
coughing and hoarseness.
a growing inability to sleep in sickness
is 0nnious of fatal result; in apparent
health, it indicates the failure of the mind
and madness; so on the other hand IN dl-
sease or dementia, a very slight improve
ment in the sleeping should be hailed as
the harbnger Of restoration.
Water cannot satisfy the thirst which at
tends cholera, dysentery, diarrhGa and some
other forms of disease; in fact, drinking
cold water seems to increase the thirst and
induce other disagreeable sensations; but
this thirst will be perfectly and pleasantly
subdued by eating comparatively small
amount of ice, swallowing it in as large
pieces as practicable and as much as is
wanted.
Very excessive effort in short space of
time, as in running or jumping rope, etc.,
has repeatedly caused instant death by. ap-
popleXy Of the lungs, the exercise sending
the blood there faster than it can be purified
by the more infrequent breathing on such
occasions.
No disease ever comes without cause or
without warning, hence endeavor to think
back for the cause, with view to avoid 1T
in the future, and on the instant of any un,
pleasant bodily sensation, cease eating until
it has disappeared, or at least for twenty
four hours; if still remaining, consult
physician.
The more clothes man wears the closer
he keeps his chamber, the closer he confines
himself to his house, the more readily will
he take cold, as the more thriftless youth
is helped the less able does he become to
help himself.-Boston Budget.
pa% Once upon time certain man got
mad at the editor and stopped his paper.
The next week he sold his corn at five cents
below the market price. Then his property
was sold for taxes because he didn't know
when they were due. He was then arrest
ed and fined eight dollars for going hunting
on Sunday, simply because he didn't know
it was Sunday. He then paid a big Irish
man to kick him all the way to the news
paper Office, where he paid for four years
subscription in advance and made the edi-
tor sign an agreement to knock him down
and rob him if he ever ordered his paper
stopped again. Such is life without news
paper.