Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-16
SULPHUR FOR DIPHTHERIA.

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never lost case-used nothing whatever
for the cure of diphtheria but common flour
of sulphuI-a teaspoonful mixed with the
finger in wine glass of water, and given
as gargle. Sulphur destroys the fungus
in man or beast. In extreme cases where
the gargle could not be used, dry sulphur
was blown down the throat through a
quill, and sui phur was burned on shovel
| where the fumes could be inhaled-and in
ten minutes the patient would be out of
danger. This is worth remembering.
Birds, especially parrots, sometimes have
| diphtheria from exposure to cold Their
throats swell, they cannot swallow, and
would soon die. In such cases force open
their beaks and blow little sulp phur
down their throats through a quill.
STRAY NOTES.
Emily Faithful is coming to America.
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, the American
novel-writer, is in Italy, gathering points
for new story.
One of the best violoncello players in
the world is royal one-Queen Mar
guerite of Italy.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cook lives at Pittsfeld,
Mass, where she has pretty but un-
pretentious home.
"He doubles
His troubles
Who borrOwS
To morrows''
The engagement is announced in Paris
of General Boulanger's second daughter to
the son of the Countess de Bari, who is a
sister-in-law of the ex-King of Naples.
Emerson expressed the truest Christian
charity in thissentence: 1--WE should be as
courteous to human being as to picture,
which we are willing to give the advantage
of good light"
Miss Juliet Corson, of cooking-school
fame, is hopeless invalid confined per-
manently to her room. When able to
sit up she writes with a portable desk
fastened to the arm of her chair.
Female clergymen (or clergy-women
perhaps we should say though properly
ordained, have not the legal authority for
solemnizing marriages. Hence their in
comes will never be so large as those of
their brother preachers.
After years of deliheration, Russia has
recently decided to permit the practice of
medicine by women properly qualified
There are strict reservations, however, one
of which stipulates that female physicians
shall not attend on or treat adults of the
opposite sex.
Mrs. Mackay, Of bonanza fame, who has
dazzled all Europe with her splendor, and
! whose recent magnificent entertainment
! to the Prince of Wales was the sensation
Of the season, wears dress which has on
it more than fifty thousand dollars worth
of real pearls.
Greatly to the surprise and consterna-
tion of her noble friends and relatives, the
Baroness Gripenberg has set up woman's
rights paper in Finnish, called Home and
Society. Besides the well-worn woman
question, it treats on prohibition and
higher education.
He was gallant youth who, with the
pair of gloves his best girl won from him
at a wager, sent these lines:
I" We wagered-she for sunshine, I for rain.
And should hint sharp practice if dared
For was she not beforehand sure to gain
Who made the sunshine we together shared?'
a number of society ladies in Detroit,
Mich, have formed club for the study Of
the art of conversation None of them
are young, and all are tolerably well edu-
Gated. Voice-culture, elocution, and gen.
eral information as to topics, are included
in their enterprise.
Verify, the avenues of labor are broad
ening. Warren, Ohio, has female
butcher; Cleveland, O., has two female
BARRIERS; Boston two female real estate
agents; Philadelphia female dentist
California a female stage driver; New
York several girl bootblacks and news
paper venders, and there are scores of
female farmers In the country.
A clever English girl has invented
new industry. She calls herself an auditor
and accountant, and looks after the house
hold expenditures of large families, keep
ing careful accounts of every penny used
! in the domestic machinery. She finds
plenty Of employment among few wealthy
families whose expenses are large, whose
heads have no taste for such work.
Mrs. James A. Garfield is worth fully
100000. Like Mrs James G.. Blaine, she
was country school teacher in her youth,
and like Mrs. U. S. Grant, has often done
the family washing when the children
were little, and cooked her husbands din
ner with her own hands. The Cleveland
property has been sold and the Mentor
farm, which was originally purchased only
for summer retreat, will be the permanent
home Of the Garfield family.
Since the sad loss of her once wonderful
voice, Etelka Gerster has not only retired
from the stage, but from the world, with
the avowed intention of never returning to
either. She lives in a secluded homeo n the
summit of a lonely mountain near the city
of Bologna. Her days are passed in per-
sonally experimenting the education of her
children in reading, and in fine embroid-
cry for which she has passion. She de-
clares herself not only resigned, but happy.
Ewes GREAT-GREAT-
GRAND DAI-GuTPR