The Republican., 1893-02-23
MISCELIANEO


know girls of is are quite as old as mel
of %" Joues-"Yes, and scarcer."-
Detroit Free Press
| II handle moro letters in a da,
than you do" said n man to one o
Uncle Sans postal employees. Indeed
What post Office do you work in?
Don't work in any post Office at all
I'm typesetter."
The Shopper examining four ant
one-half-cent cotton prints)-''Will thu
coiors run?" Salesman with promp
assurance) Mot unless they're wet
lady; how many yards?" Shopper (evi
IDENTIFY relieved me eight yards
| There are sixty-four countries
where an invention can claim protec
tion, or rather where patent fees may
be paid. Sixteen of these are in Europe
eight in Africa, four in Asia, twenty
seven in America and nine in Oceanica
The total price of these sixty-fouI
official scraps of paper amount to the
nice little sum of Sl4,550.
-Witherby-"That's nice little safe
you have for your home, old man.
suppose that is for your wife's use?'
Plankington-''Not much. She hasn't
even the combination" Withcrby-
"You must keep something very valu'
able in it, not even to let your wife
know the combination of it." Plank
ington-'I do | keep all my collar
buttons and shoestrings in that safe
"A youth of oxford, being examined
in Paley, was asked If he could mention
any instance of the divine GOODNESS
which he had found out for himself
"les; the conformation OF the nose OF
the bulldog. Its nose is sorctracted
that it can hang onto the bull and yet
breathe freely. But for this it would
soon have to let GO" The bulls point
of view was not regarded at all.
An ordinary photograph may be
made luminous in the dark by very
simple process Take white mount,
coat it with starch paste, and sprinkle
the paste with luminous powder. This
done, make the silver print MS trans
parent as possible, by coating the back
with castor oil, and afix it to the
mount. The effect is said to he quite
satisfactory.
So many Boston physicians fell into
the way of assigning heart failure as
the cause of death, that the board of
health refused to accept such certii'
Gates, and demanded more exact
statement of causes They might as
well have said that their patients died
because they were short of breath"
That old familiar phrase as truly rep.
resents the cause of death in many
cases as does heart failure. Indeed,
death comes either through stoppagc OF
the hearts action or stopping of breath
ing. One may take brief precedence
| over the other, but neither shortness Of
breath nor heart failure can supply a
! satisfactory statement of the cause OF
death for statistical record.
No smoker realizes how much nico-
tine he has taken into his mouth in the
consumption of cigar until he has
tried this experiment: Fill the mouth
with smoke, when the cigar is burning
! freely, and breathe it out slowly
through handkerchief, COMPRISING
the lips until only small aperture re-
mains, as in whistling. After the smoke
has been exhaled distinct brown stain
will be seen on the linen, and it emits
strong odor, like that of an old pipe.
This is nicotine, the poisonous principle
of tobacco and more or less of it is alb.
sorbed through the mucous membrane
every time that cigar, cigarette or pipe
is smoked or tobacco is chewed.
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/ former days was file-cutting, until
Charles Readc, in one of his clever
novels, drew attention to the brutality
which compelled men to breathe pol
lutcd atmosphere and work hard under
the slow effects of lead poisoning. Al
that time files We're cut by being set ir
leaden plates hardened with arsenic
and antimony, and the worker breatheC
not merely the minute chips of stee
which his chiscl struck out, but alsc
the still more minute and poisonou.
particles of the metals which made the
bed. Happily invention has come tC
the aid of the file-workcrs and few file.
are now cut by hand, and the few
handmade files now cut are made in
well-ventilated rooms baltimore Sun
The largest and richest private cabi
net of minerals in America is said to bt
that of Clarence l.. Bement, of lhila
delphia. His collection fills nearly ;
whole floor of his large house, whieh i.
lighted with special reference to seeing
his treasures to advantage, and none O.
the great public museums have speci
mems of size, beauty and perfeatsor
to surpass those that he has been pa
tiently gathering for the past twent,
years or more. The leading dealers il
this country have standing orders t,
send him the best of what comes t,
them, and they willingly do so, for h,
is prompt and liberal in his payments
being a gentleman not only of enthu
siasm but of ample fortune. What h,
does not take is sent to the British
museum as the second best buyer
While it is difficult to set a price on
scientific collection, it is said by thos
who should know that Mr.. Bement'
cabinet is worth ut least 1925, 200.
The yellow fever epidemic in New
York in 1895 was the occasion of no
inconsiderable trouble in Connecticut
In the first place, it ruined gran,
lottery scheme on the part of the stat
| for the erection of the state canito