Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-02-18

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THERE is a marked contrast between
the temperature at the surface and in
the depths of the mines on the famous
Comstock lode. While severe winter
weather is prevailing outside the heat
as so intense in the lower levels of the
mines that the workmen, who have no
clothing on but overalls and heavy bro
gans to protect the feet, can work only
Mt short Intervals.
THE modern way apparently, to be-
come famous is to be threatened with hy-
drophobia. Three Of the Newark chill
dren who were treated by Pasteur have
been perched on pedestals in dime
museum in the BowerN New York, to
be viewed by gaping crowds. The man.
ayers even had the audacity to write
DIR. Billings and NJ. Pasteur. asking
them 10 pose in the museum.
A RECENT Yale graduate told story
at New York dinner of young man
who attended Michigan college, and,
to exc out enough money to put him
through, gave lessons on the piano to
young ladies. The faculty heard of it,
and in the college prospectus printed
the names of che young women as stu
dents in the musical department of the
college. He thought this plan might
give Yale boom if that staid old col
iegs could be induced to adopt it.
In England the legal definition of
beer extends to "any liquor which is
made or sold as a description of beer, or
as substitute for beer, and which, on
analysis of a sample thereof, shall be
found to contain more than 2 per cent.
of proof spirits. Hence an interesting
commotion among a number of would
be temperance people, who suddenly
found out that the ..blue-ribbon beer''
contained considerably over per cent.
of absolute alcohol.
The results OF experiments with
eighteen varieties of cheese are given
in BeidernaaRn'S Ccntral6latt. Cheddar,
a rich and highly favored English
cheese, was digested in the shortest
time, four hours, while unripe skinned
cheese required ten. There is little diff
ference in the digcstiblity of all sorts
of hard cheese or all soft cheese. Fat
cheeses dissolve the most rapidly.
Taking into consideration the quantity
of nitrogen dissolved, the writer con-
cluded that on account of its great pro-
portionate digestibility, cheese is the
most nourishing of all foods except
meat and eggs.
DocToRs do not appear to have
much faith in the idea that odd-shaped
bottles or peculiar labels will prevent
mistakes in the taking of drugs. An
English physician relates that he once
gave man, for external use, little
croton-oil liniment in blue fluted bot
tie, with red label. One night, the
man, being troubled with O cough,
thought be would take some of his wife's
cough mixture, which was in bottle
having raised letters. He mistook the
Fittings on his own bottle for the raised
letters on his wife's, and swallowed the
croton-oll. He soon discovered his err
ror, and was very i'll for many hours.
IT appears from paper read before
the Pharmaceutical society that one of
the reasons for the low price of
quinine lies in the fact the
cinchona trees are no long
er destroyed in the harvesting. The old
plan was to cut them down and strip
off the bark when they were ten years
old. Then the idea was adopted of
tearing off long strips and filing the
bear places with moss. The present
method is to scrape off the outer layer
of the bark, the portion richest in quiz
nine, and this does not interfere with the
growth of the tree. The bark is scrap
ed of half round at one operation, the
other half six months afterward. The
process may be repeated year after year.
In our selfish troubles we imagine
there are no other persons so tried as
are we. An eastern story tells us of
poor beggar who had, at night, but
single small coin. He had waited till
the hour when the food in the market
would be the cheapest, and then he
went and bought cucumber. He had
10 bread to eat with it, and, saying to
himself that he was the poorest and
most unfortunate man in the city, he
went to a retired place where no one
should see him eat his slender meal, and
drawing his old knife from his girdle
. he pared his cucumber and began to
cat. Hearing movement behind him,
he turned around. and there he saw
man picking up the parings and eating
them. "Allah be praised?' said he
Here is q man poorer than !, for he
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