The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-31

lips, they work their under law, and their
mouth twitches. AS | smoked more and more
cigarettes | found that l was getting into this
condition. Although at times the taste OF the
TOBACCO would gag me, and would fling the
cigarette away in disgust, moment afterward
| would have fresh one in my mouth. /
found had to have something to roll my
tongue against and bite on. l gradually came
to the conclusion that it was not the cigarette
smoke was SO fond of, but that my extreme
nervousness had given me an abnormal craving
to have something In my mouth all the time.
SO one day made up my mind to try chewing
toothpicks. l resolved to limit myself to forty
cigarettes a day for while and chew tooth
picks between smokes. did so, and found 1t
worked first-rate. Then cut down the GUAM
tity of cigarettes to twenty day and increased
my consumption of toothpicks. | found the
effect better still, and now | never allow myself
more than half dozen cigarettes day, and ex-
pect TO be able to stop entirely pretty soon. l
also get along for hours at a time without chew
Ing a toothpick, but | always keep them in my
pocket, and when my tongue or lips get nervous
soothe them with a toothpick. If Il could get
my discovery patented believe it would make
my everlasting fortune. The toothpick is the
greatest antidote for the cigarette known to
science. Try it, my boy, and tell your friends
about it,"
The Hon. Richard Vaux is not only interesting
In appearance and because he danced with
Queen Victoria, but he is interesting to listen
to. He is close observer and a good talker.
Although past seventy, nothing seems to escape
his observation or his memory. "There is
something very curious about the disease the
doctors call the grip" he said the other day.
"a great many people who had it last winter were
left on recovery with strange sequilla. AS they
got rid of these in many cases they developed
constitutional idiosyncrasies which very re-
markable. My wife had the grip last winter
and after 1t disappeared 1t left her weak, and
she did not recover from the effects for long
time. Finally she was taken with some sort Of
chest trouble which puzzled her doctor for a
while. At last one day he said to me, Il
believe L know what's the matter with
Mrs. Vaux-she has the asthma l laughed
at him and said, 'Pshaw, she never had a
touch of the asthma in all her life, and it
isn't likely she would develop it now, is it tnI
asked. The doctor admitted it wasn't, but in
quired IL any of her family had ever had any
thing of the kind. told him not to my knowl-
edge. But when we spoke to Mrs. Vaux about
1t she recalled that her grandmother had died of
1t after having lived for many years in a room
specially built for her, as she wasn't able to
walk up stairs from shortness Of breath. Now
you see the grip had developed that constitu-
tlo monal idiosyncrasy to asthma in my wife after
Two generations Another case" Mr. Vaux con-
tinued, "was that of Phil Elkins, of Philadel-
phia. He is a big, powerful man, and was sur
prised one day on meeting him in the street to
see him take out a small bottle from his pocket
he was taking medicine for. He told me- He
had had the grip, and after recovering from it,
as he supposed, chills and fever developed. 1t
seems thai when he was a small boy, six or
seven years old, he had spent the summer
in malarious region in New jersey
and there had chills and fever inoculated
in his system. He was apparently cured
at the time, but after over fifty years.
fever came back on him. 1 know dozens of
other similar cases." Mr.. Vaux concluded, land
l don't think we've heard the last of the grip
YET. A good many people are having return
OF 1t in mild form in Philadelphia now, and
wouldn't be surprised il it got worse as cold
weather came on"
"Nothing makes me more inclined to regret
that am human being,' said an observant
lady the other day, ethan the pitful exhibitions
which some men make of themselves Just be-
cause they are dressed in little brief authority
In Government Department. l went to one
of these Departments the other day on a chari-
table errand and beheld q scene there that made
my heart sick. A man, born of woman, was at
desk, like an autocrat upon his throne, while
In fiont of him, barely inside the door, as if
afraid to venture further into the august pres
ence, (by the way, he is only chief clerk sat
row of trembling women and cowed-looking
men waiting to be disposed of, which may mean
appointment, disappointment, or decapitation,
according TO the pleasure OF his sublimity. His
eye was black and baleful, his jaw seemed cast
In iron, no ripple of softness relaxed the rigid
muscles, and the imperous wave of his mighty
hand carried CONSERVATION to the futtering
hearts of the poor timid mortals before him.
Now, why, in the name of Heaven can't a man
show little gentleness, little consideration,
little manliness In the discharge of his Off
cial duties? He is only there to perform a GER
tain share of the work of the Government His
authority is but limited and brief. That chief
clerk could have discharged his duty Just as
expeditiously, just as effectively, with a look of
kindness, il not with smile on his face, with
out attempting to humliate those who, by some
strange turn of fortune, were for a moment at
his mercy"
X
"No,' said Democratic member in answer
to criticism on Representative Enloe's course
in insisting on calling attention to Representa-
tive Cannon's coarse remark in the House on
Wednesday, "Enoe was right in doing what
he did. Cannon's remark was probably the
most vulgar ever made on the floor of the
House. The Republicans naturally couldn't be
expected 10 censure one of their own leaders,
and If the Democrats had let Cannon's offense
pass unnotced the country would say that
they had little respect for decency. The Demo-
Gratis owed 1t to themselves to show that such
Vulgarity could not be indulged in on the floor
OF the House with impunity. They owed it to
themselves, and theV owed IL tO tha uOod mama