The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-11-10
edge in the matter of checking cough

ing and sneczing. He states that
coughing can be stopped by pressing
on the nerves Of the lips in the neigh
borhood of the nose, and sncezing may
be stopped in the same way. Press
ing in the neighborhood of the ear or
right in front of the ear, may stop
coughing. 1t is SO also OF hiccough-
ing, but much less SO than for sneezing
or coughing. Pressing very hard on
the roof of the mouth is also means
for arresting cough, and the will is
often found to be a wonderful pre-
tentative.
A new flag has been designed for
the boards of trade of the cities along
the Merrimac River, composed of
seven horizontal stripes, representing
the seven cities on the Merrimac
River, and showing the colors of the
rainbow-red, Concord; orange,
Manchester; yellow, Nashau; green,
Lowell; blue, Lawrence; indigo,
Haverhill; violet, Newburyport. In
the upper quarter, next to the staff,
on blue field, is shown the White
Mountains and Lake Winnipiseogee.
the source of the Merrimac River, and
arched above the lake and mountain
appears rainbow. In all probability
the growing centre of manufacturing
interests, Amesbury, will make neces-
sary the addition of another stripe, of
some combination coolr, like purple,
for instance.
Captain Collins, of the United
States Fish Commission in his report
on the New England Fisheries for
1888, which is just being published,
makes one efficient point. The gen.
eral impression has been that the pro-
portion of aliens among our fishermen
was very large. AS matter of fact,
however, these STATISTICS show that in
1888 there Yere 1851 men employed
on the fishing vessel of Massachusetts,,
and that 1Q,5SS of these were Ameri-
cans. This would make the percent
age of foreigners less than 40, and not
70 OF 80, as many have claimed. OF
the foreign 60, 1888 were British pro-
vincials, or more than one-half. The
change that is taking place in the YES
sells engaged in the several fisheries is
well illustrated in the case of Massa-
chusetts. The number of vessels en-
gagged showed a decrease, but this was
more than offset by the increase in
the size and value of those engaged,
the actual increase in that class of
shipping being more than 500 tons.
AT Portsmouth, Eng, on Thursday,
an official trial was made of boom
designed for protection against torpe-
do boats, and the results have proved
of great interest in naval circles. The
boom was moored across the channel,
which is seventy feet wide, and Sc
cured between two lighters, the sur
face being covered with iron spikes
so as to catch the bottom of the enc
my's torpedo boats. Ten feet above,
and parallel with the boom, was
stretched a seven-inch-wire hawser
which was kept taut. A first-class
torpedo boat, commanded by Lieuten-
ant Sturdee with a crew of five men,
whose lives had been insured by the
admiralty, then started upon the haz-
ardous attempt to pass the boom, and
after run of seven miles, Lieutenant
Sturdee battened down the matches,
having sent the crew below, and made
a rush at the boom at full speed. On
reaching the obstruction the torpedo
boat was forced on the spikes where
it remained firmly wedged, and from
which all her engine power was una.
BILE to force her. The officials are
congratulating themselves on the sue
cess of the experiment, the use of
harbor booms as an efficient means of
defense being considered proven be-
yond peradventure.
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