The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-24

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wake ont.'' syE.ia,i calls; s st.st... zee
pretty sure Wsunds: striaEh4 .IatiOn is imper
feet. \: this time or gear the air is FIRE
quentlY shut out to keep out the cold, and
many suffer from the i'll effects of an in
sufficient supply of oxygen and the
breathing of air charged with carbonic
acid and other deleterious substances
thrown off by exhalation. The evidences
of bad ventilation may not be decidedly
marked, but the silent and insiduons in
jury to health goes on. A family can be
comfortable with less heat and more fresh
air than is generally supposed, and in
rooms heated by furnace or stoves too
much care regarding ventilation cannot
be exercised.
GOOD CoUNsEL.-How true it is, as the
Practical Mechanic says, thousands start
well, but never finish one thing at a time.
They have a doz en- things on handand no
one completed. Time is wasted on I'M
finished work. Always finish what YOU
begin. One thing finished is worth a
hundred half done. The completion of an
undertaking yields more pleasure and
profit than dozens of plans. The man who
is always planning or seheming is rarely.
if ever, successful. He often furnishes
ideas for others, who go persistently to
work and finish what his ideas suggested.
"That was my idea-my plan" we fire.
quentiy hear some one say, but the man
who carried it out was the one who bene-
fitted himself and others. Do not begin
what you cannot finish. What you un-
dertake to do, do, and reap the reward of
your own ideas and skill. This is good
advice, both IN and out of the shop.
SUNSHINE. = Equally important with
pure cir in living apartments is sunshine.
1t carries with it radiance and cheer and
vigor and good health. 1t is a purifier,
warding off mould, moisture, gloom, de-
preston and disease. 1t shoHld be admit
ted to every apartment of the house and
made welcome at all times. 1t is a strong
preventive to the disorders that visit
shaded and musty places. 1t brings health
and happiness that cannot be obtained
from any other source. 1t is natures own
health giving agent, and nothing can be
substituted for it. 1t has no artificial
counterpart. 1t does not only touch the
physical body, but it reaches the mind
and soul, and purifes the whole existence
of man. 1t may fade carpet or uphol.
stery, but it will bring color to the cheek,
light to the eye, and elasticity to the step.
The closed and shaded windows NAV
throw richness of color upon the room.
but it will bring paleness and feebleness
to the occupants. This health agent is
free to all, easily obtained, and one of the
most economic health preservers we have,
and ready to impart its efficacy at the rise
of the curtain.
The HUMAN BREATH A PoIsoN.-The
Paris correspondent of tae Medical Press
and Circular reports that at the last met.
ing oil the Academic des Sciences, Profess
sor Brown-Sequard referred to some ex-
periments he had conducted, with view
to determine what, if any, were the toxic
effects of the human breath. In conden-
sing the watery vapor coming from the
human lungs, he obtained a poisonous
liquid capable of producing almost imme-
liate death. The poison is an alkaloid
and not a microbe or series of
as might have been imagined.
He injected this liquid under the skin of
4 rabbit, and the effect was speedily NOR
tai. The animal died without convulsons;
The heart and large vessels were engorged
w4Gh reddish blood, contrary to what is
after ordinary death, when the
Iuallty of blood is moderate and of dark
color. In conclusion, this eminent pbysi-
'logist said that it was fully proved that
respired air contained a volitile toxic
principle fac more dangerous than the
,arbonic acid, which also was one of its
constituents, and that the human breath,
rs well as that of animals, contains
highly poisonous agent.