The record-union., 1892-06-29
EDS. RECORD UNION: To settle dis
pute, is it true that steam engines without
n ra yN-a,n oUor IIynI

/
! pute, is it true that steam engines without
! nre We're ever used.
! NJ. NJ, Sacramento.
! Yes. DR.. Larun OF New Orleans in
vented one of the best, and as a motor it
/ was used for some time on street railways
/ in that city. Tho motor had a boiler into
! which steam was injected until the water
rose to a temperature of 1902, with a
| pressure of $50 pounds. Thus a storage
/ reservoir of steam was created in the
heated water. 1t was found that small
motors could run five ana half miles
| thus charged. They never came into
much use.
EDS. RECORD UNION: What is now
the settled opinion regarding taking food
before going to sleep. | find disputes
between authorities. ORoVILLE
TOO long fasting is as injurious as too
much eating. There is perpetual dlsin-
tegration of tissue in the body sleeping
or waking. Most animals eat before
sleep, and instinct is good guide in the
matter. But man is about the only ami
NAL that abuses his stomach so that it
may not receive food at times when it
should. So no fixed rule is agreed upon,
except this, by doctors, that one in a
normal state of health should no more go
to bed very hungry than stuffed. But
there is food and food, and what YOU eat
has as much to do with health in sleep as
eating at all. Digestion goes on during
sleep; it requires little or no rest. Says
DIR. Cathell in the British Medical Journal:
And If the amount of food during the TWEEN.
! ty-four hours is in quantity and quality, not
| beyond the physiological limit, it makes no
| hurttul difference TO the stomach how few or
| how short are the intervals between eating:
! but it does make q vast difference in the weak
and emaciated ones welfare to have a modi-
cum of food in the stomach during the time
of sleep. that, instead of being consumed by
| bodily action, it may during the interval i'm
prove the lowered system. l am fully salts
fed that were the weakly, the emaciated, and
| the sleepleSs 10 nightly take light lunch or
meal of simple, nutritious food before going
| TO bed for a prolonged period, nine in ten OF
| them would be thereby lifted into better
standard of health
In my speciality nose and throat encoun-
ter cases that, in addition to local and consti-
| tutional treatment, need an increase of nutri-
cious food; and lind by directing a bowl OF
! bread and milk, or a mug of beer and few
| biscuits, or q saucer of oatmeal and cream be-
| fore going to bed, for a few months, a surpris-
! ing increase in weight, strength and general
! tone results. On the contrary persons who
are too stout or plethoric should follow an
opposite course.
We have quoted thus fully because the
| question and answer is one of such GEN
eral interest, but let us add if you have
any doubt as to the effects of eating be-
fore sleep in your case, and they are ad-
verse to the practice, quit until you con-
suit a physician. No rule of generality
will apply to individual cases. The gen
eral rule is but statement of principles.
The rule for every case must be deter
mined by good judgment and experience
and the doctor.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: How much
money has our Government expended on
| st. Mary's Canal, that is now one of the
subjects Of dispute about discrimination
between Canada and the United States.
| You had an editorial on the question of
the dispute, but did not mention any
canal on which our country has spent
| money. ii. e., Sacramento.
I'VE cannot tell you. But all the United
States Government has ever spent upon
| great lakes and canal Improvement is
| so, DOC, OO0-a very small sum when the
| great benefits resulting are considered.l
| Mrs. L.--Brush the rusted steel with a
paste madesof cyanide of potassium half
ounce, CASTLE soap half ounce, whiting one
| ounce; add water to make into paste
! Then wash the steel in a solution of
half an ounce of cyanide of potassium in
two ounces of water. But take our ad :
vice. and take the injured steel to a pol
possibly i'll success.
EMERY-Percussion caps came into use
between 1920 and 1880.
S. Ma. II. stands for year of reign;
not much area. b. d. stands for Bachelor
of Divinity.
ELMER-We gave you the only answer
possible to be given. Excuse us.
STUDENT-No county records are closed
to the public except those by order of
court SO protected.
SADIE-The mark "coq' on the pre-
scription was direction to the apothecary
to 'boil.''
c. P. S.-Most diamonds are cut in A M
sterdam.
M. l.. B.-Do not know, but think the
tower proposition for the Worlds Fair at
Chicago has been abandoned.
MARL-The Vice-President receives
S., COO a year.
For disordered liver try Beecham's
Pills.