The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-07-16

tai life are ameliorated, the deaths
from apoplexy appear to increase,
while the feyers and plaques of the
state of barbarism decrease i'm a much
more rapid ratio. In the first period
of life 60 to 2OO the eruptive tevers,
inllamations, scrofulous and dropsical
effusions are most to be dreaded. Be-
tween 20 and 40 consumption, infam-
alton, fevers and epidemics are the
most deadly shafts of death, which
judicious course of hygiene or
changing of climate in this period may
do much to disarm Changing from our
extreme southern states to more north |
ern ones during a yellow fever epidemic |
and vice versa during the prevalence |
of typhoid fever in the nOrth-as i'm |
some southern states it is as rare for |
Pneumonia to engraft itself upon the |
above mentioned affection as it is COM |
MON in many northern and northeast |
ern ones,-furnish examples of affect |
tions the influence of the climate upon |
which is treated of more fully In anoth- |
er part of this work.) The same class
of disease maintains the preponderance
until 60, but in the period following,
60 to 80, dropsies and inflammation in
crease, while apoplexy gains a great |
ascendency. After 65 man should
undertake nothing requiring great in
tellectual exertion or sustained energy. |
Equable climate, warmth, temperance,
tranquility, may prolongue his years to
the close of century. A rude breath
of the atmosphere, violent struggle,
or shock, will suffice to terminate his
existence. Having the most equable
climate within his knowledge the
author would recommend Southern
California, particularly the city of Los
Angeles and its vicinity, where the
skies are always blue and the breezes
ever genial and balmy, the yearly tenn
perature ranging between fifty and
ninety degrees fahrenheit, where sud
den changes are unknown and the four
seasons seem to have merged into a
perpetual spring. Here no icy winds
sweep over the lands from the noun
| tains to the sea, no northers or bliz-
yards come into existence to stimulate
the system and cause the blood to
bound through the cerebral arteries
and endanger their continuity. The
apoplexy of the aged can with proper
care be averted for several years; but
after all it is perhaps the natural death,
the enthanasia of the intellectual, their
blood remains pure, their solids firm to
the last,-when 8 fragile artery gives
way within the head, the blood escapes
and by gentle pressure dissolves SEN
sibility at its source forever. The wri-
visited some years ago, while in the
vicinity of the famous grotto of Adels
berg once so renowned as the resort to
which flocked consumptives from nearly
all Europe. The circle of carniola
is one of the most interesting portions
of the dominion of Austria. Its bare
and calcareous mountains are grand
and striking and their geological struc-
ture is peculiar. The waters of subter-
raneous rivers issue from their recesses
and the lake of Zirknitz is celebrated
on account of the singular fact that at
stated times it suddenly becomes dry,
its contents being drained into the in
terror of the mountains. After the
lapse of certain period, they again
issue into their usual basin. Adelsberg
is situated half way between Laybach
and Triste, in the district which over
hangs the Adriatic sea, and is built at
the foot of a considerable eminence.
There are two apertures in this emil
nence, one of which receives the the
river Pojck. One of these openings
seems from its regular appearance, to
be the work of art rather than of
nature, which the other aperture has
none of this regularity, but is broken
into jagged shapes. The entrance by
which visitors are conducted into these
caverns is considerably higher than
that by which it forms, is divided from
the other cavern by partition, which
is broken through in various places,
the visitor hearing the waters rushing
beneath along its subterranean bed.
This gallery runs into the mountain,
while as you advance, the murmurings
OF the stream and the distant CLEANS of
daylight die away together, and the
silence and darkness of ancient night
reign around. Such is the entrance
to the cavern of Adelsberg, but its re-
cesses cannot be penetrated without
the assistance of light. The visitor
then proceeds along the passage, which
gradually widens, or rather opens into
an immense cavern, or rather there
are two caverns, for it is crossed by a
ledge of rock which does not rise to
the roof. This ledge forms a natural
bridge on one side of which the waters
furiously pursue their course, aud fur
ther on they have worn a passage
through the partition which divides the
J cavern. The darkness is oppressive
and impreDetable, and the lights which
are too feeble to pierce through the OBJ
scurity, only render 1t more striking.
The waters rush along with heavy
and indistinct sound. At the point
where the descent is the least abrupt, q
flight of steps was cut, the partition
was pierced, and steps were cut on the
, other side which land the visitor on
the floor of the larger cavern. Here
the river flows heavily along in well
indented channel, and it enters the
mountain at the opposite wall of the
cavern. An iron bridge is thrown across
the river and the terminating wall OF
the cavern apparently opposes all fur,
ther progress, steps are however cut
on the opposite side and beyond this
there Is Il succession of immense cav.
: ern branching off into two separate
series. The suite of caverns to the left
is the more extensive, ample and
majestic. The passages are spacious
and lofty supported by pillars aud fret
ted with cornices of the purest stalac-
5 tite. Sometimes the columns are so reg
: nlarly arranged that one believes he is
twaikinS up the aisle of a Gothic cathe-
: dral. Many of the columns are en-
tirely insulated and have a diameter OF
3 three, four and even five feet, frequent
: ly the pillar is interrupted as it were in
l the middle, losing its columnar form
l and twisting, dividing or spread
, ing itself out into innumerable shapes.
5 sometimes it dilates into broad thin
e plate, almost transparent in the light
of a lamp, sometimes the descending
= part tapers into a point, which rests on
; the broad surface of the ascending
A stalagmite. The walls are entirely coat
3, cd with the substance and in tie small
{ OF grottoes it is so pure that travellers
e have covered it with names written in
e pencil which have already resisted the
S moisture five or six years. The other
l. divisions is more spacious and extends
t much further The cayerns which
Y compose it it are wider and loftier but
- not sn beautifully adorned as in the