The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-08
Remedies and Preyentiycs.

Poison from bees, hornets, spider
bites, etc, is instantly arrested by the
application OF equal parts OF COM
mon salt and blcarbonate OF soda,
well rubbed on the place bitten or
stung.
A physician tells us that preven-
tive measures are generally taking the
place ofthe heroic treatment long prev
alent in medica! practice-which is
good news. Regularity of habit, mod
GRAFTON in all things, simple food, pure
air, freely inhaled day and night, and
avoidance of continued or excessive
strain of mind or muscle, are main
conditions of comfortable and pro-
tracted life.
Cultivate in your children the habit
of breathing only through the nose;
many distressing ailments are due to
the evil effects of mouth breathing Ii
there is a disposition to throw the
head back when asleep, inducing
breathing through the mouth, correct
it as often as is necessary by gently
bringing the head forward somewhat.
Onions. says correspondent of
morning paper, inhaled cause sleep,
rest and repose. The soldier on his
march and the exhausted iron worker
get great strength from eating the
onion. Tie fresh onion around the
neck and bruise it to make its odor
thorough, and you secure sound sleep
from its nightly inhalation.
Absolute cleanliness is an important
requisite in the care of the hands.
They should always be washed in
warm soapsuds just before going to
bed. Whitesoaps are much the safest,
as colored or scented soaps are near
ly always made from rancid fats. A
mixture OF rosewater and glycerlne, in
equal quantities, with few drops OF
ammonia added is excellent for rubbing
over the hands at night on retiring.
This simple treatment will wonder
fully i'm prove their condition in a
very short time.
AS rule meat eating animals-the
cat, the tiger-are lean. Grain-eating
animals are fat-the OK, the horse,
the sheep. Nitrogenous compounds
tend to leaness; ;carbonaceous, starchy,
saccharine compounds tend to
adispose. But some people can't be
made tat, no matter what they eat,
and Others will put on weight, no mat
ter what they eat. Nj. l.. W., who
wants to pull down the scales, should
eat starchy and sweet foods, drink
chocolate, and let meat and nervous
drinks, such as tea and coffee, alone.
A Philadelphia physician-Dr. Hoe
ace Williams-believes long walks VIII
cure dyspepsia. The hot water cure
is still popular, and it has long been
held that exercise is needed to pro-
mote good digestion. There may be
more truth than fallacy in the long
walk theory.
H. B. H. asks why we are advised
to have our beds point north and
south rather than east and west. A
magnetic needle always takes posi-
tion at right angles to a magnetic cur.
rent passing over or underit. Magnet
lc currents pass around the earth
from east to west, and the magnetic
needle, arranging itself at right angles
to them, points north. When our
beds point north and south we are,
when sleeping, at right angles with
these magnetic currents, and the theo-
ry is that we are better thus
How to treat silverware is thus told
| by Art and Decoration: Place in a
stoppered glass bottle nitric acid, 6
Or; powdered bichromate OF potash,
| o.: water. 2 o., and apply to the