The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-05-02
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the Health Department was held at
Mrs. Nellie Wagner's last week.
Among the things discussed was the
need of Board of Heolth in the town,
that the citizens may not be compelled
to tolerate such surroundings that are
detrimental to health, productive of
disease.
The theory of dress reform as advo-
Gated by Annie Jenness Miller was
discussed and won approval as advaut-
age was to health and comfort.
Health Calendars are all sold, at a
profit Of $500 to the Union.
All who desire copy of the new
States minutes can get them by calling
on Mrs. N. G.. Brown.
CLIPPINGS FROM "GoOD HEALTH"
There is not an i'll to which woman
is heir, which may not be either ale
waited or aggravated by the mode OF
dress. DR.. Mary Allen says many a
woman is constantly putting large fees
into the hands of the doctor, when she
might be entirely cured were she in
structed to relieve her hips of the bur
den of clothing and her waist of the
restriction of corsets.
The New York Weekly thinks more
harm is done by tight foot gear than
by tight laciDg. We think this view
is somewhat extreme, but certainly tight
shoes are source Of no small amount
of mischief.
francesca Huppazol. Piedmontere
born in 1889, was one of the few men
who lived to date their letters in three
centuries. He drank no fermented
liquors, ale little meat, went to bed
with the chickens and rose with the
lark. His first illness after teething
time was when he was ia years old.
At the ripe age of 100 his hair, beard
and eyebrows, which were snowy white,
became jet black. At ll2 he had two
new teeth but before his death both the
old and the new teeth disappeared, and
the old man was obliged to live on
soup. He was five times married, and
was the father Of forty-nine children,
four Of whom we're born alter he was
80 years old. At the age Of 81 be was
appointed consul Of Venice at Smyrna.
He died in 1902 aged lis years.
"When an acre Of ground has pro-
duced long and well, we let it lie fallow
for season when a razor has been
long in service and refuses to hold an
edge, the barber lays it aw.y for few
weeks, and the edge comes back of its
own accord. We bestow thoughtful
care upon inanimate objects, but none
upon ourselves. What a robust people,
what nation of thinkers we might be,
if we would only lay ourselves on the
shelf oecas onalIy and renew our
edges.-MARK TWAIN.
A woman living in Russia, always q
strict teetotaler, recently celebrated her
l40th birthday.
A case was recently reported in
which lady became insane through
the use of cigarettes. She had been a
sufferer from hay fever and sought re-
lief by smoking cubeb cigarettes.
Afterwards she grew very fond Of to-
bacco cigarettes and actually smoked
herself insane
A numerous incident is told of the
work of women in the New York CITY
School Board. A janitor of one of the
schools came last week with complaint
to one of the principals. He said he
had been a jauitor of that building for
nineteen years and no one had ever
asked to see tie basement until one OF
The women of the school board came
recently. and said she wanted to make
an examination, "And that basement
wasn't in fit condition. for any one to
see," he added paintively.
CLIPPINGS FROM THE NATIONAL Bull
LEIIN.
Manila cigars are famous everywhere.
A correspondent Of the Toronto Globe
'oys that one factory alone In the city
f Manila turns out 3s,000,000 ciga-
rettes year, and comments, "what a
heritage palpitation and dyspepsia "
Good authority states that in a GER
tain London hospital where alcohol il
still freely used in the treatment Of
fever cases, "a per cent of the fever
patiets die, whereas in the Glasgow
Al