Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-03-01
TAKING COLD.
Hot Rooms Create Tendency to G

Hot Rooms Create Tendency to Catarrh.
person in good health with fair
play easily resists cold. But when the
health flags a little, and liberties are
taken with the stomach or the nervous
system, chill is easily taken, and ac-
cording to the weak spot of the in
dividual assumes the form of a cold or
pneumonia. or it may be jaundice. OF
all cases of ''cold" probably fatigue is
the most efficient A iaded man COM
ing home at night from a long day's
work, growing youth losing two
hours sleep over evening parties two
or three times week, or a young lady
doing the season." and over-fed chill
dren with short allowance of sleep.
are common instances of the victims Of
the cold.
Luxury is favorable to the chill-tak-
ing; very hot rooms, soft chairs, feather
beds, create a sensitiveness that leads
to catarrh.
1t is not, after all, the cold that is 30
much to be feared as the antecedeut
condition that gives the attack chance
OF doing harm. Some of the worst
colds happen to those who do not leave
their house or even their bed, and those
who are most invulnerable are often
those who are most exposed to change,
OF temperature, and who by good sleep,
cold bathing and regular habits pre-
serve the tone of their nervous system
and circulation.-Boston Budget.
Amateur photographers are said to be
as persistent as lightning-rod or fruit
tree agents. Some Of them certainly
do go to great lengths in the pursuit of
queer subjects" Thousands of photo
graphic devotees went to the top of
Eiffel Tower during the great exposi-
ton for the purpo@ Of getting a snap
shot birdseye view of the city of Paris
And they got them, too. It's a way
they seem to have of getting what
| ever they set their minds on having.
Hundreds of amateur photographers
| have made dangerous mountain ascents
for the purpose of obtaining pictures
of the wild, rugged scenery, and num-
bers of enthusiasts have gone up in
balloons. and from their dizzy heights
snapped away at this little mundane
sphere of ours with their cameras
The most unique adventure on rec
ord, however, in which a snapshotter
participated, occurred some time ago
near Blantyre, in the shire highlands
of South Africa A party. consisting of
| several members of the Scotch mission.
came suddenly upon number of croco-
dies while they were ont hunting one
day.
The enormous saurians were lazilv
basking in the sun, but. despite the ad-
monitory ''Sh." of one Of the nimrods.
they took alarm at the approach of the
strangers and beat hasty retreat to-
ward the water, which all of them en-
tered except one straggier, which the
hunters succeeded in catching by the
tails. I
The four natives who seized the croco-
die by that portion of his anatomy
which would have entered the water
last, had he succeeded in eluding them,
were swayed violently from side to side
by the violent writhing of the powerful
creature, but they held on manfally.
until the photographer had got. his.
camera around in front ct hin. when,
click. and the great African amphibian
had had biz iAicsure took The SEQUEL,
was particularly sad one for the croco-.
die, for after the sitting he was dis.
| patched by rihe-shot, Golden Days.