Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1894-06-26
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pauenr Tndlcate, gy some disturbance,
that it would be expedient to examine
the wound. The temperature and the
pulse are the surgeons guide; he takes
his enc from them. Nothing can be
amiss in the wound if these remain
normal, and thus it follows that large
wound, such as that following an am
putation, heals sodndIy from first to
last, without any suppuration. What
a contrast with that which obtained in
former days. Suppuration was then
thought to be an indispensable part of
the healthy process of healing. In the
present time, ON the contrary, a surgeon
is held to- have failed in his practice OF
the principles of surgical cleanliness If,
in wounds originally aseptic, suppura-
ton occurs. Century.
Nine. de Pompadour Mime. DIES
tiolles) was grass widow Her hus-
band made a great row about her con-
nection with King Louis and was
promptly banished. but begged to be
allowed to return. promising to behave
himself He was permitted to come
back to Paris, but had the indiscretion
to write her complaining letter which
she showed to the king, and NJ. d'Es-
tiolles was given his walking-papers in
short order.
A recent Ohio lawsuit. involving
the ownership of l, 800 acres of valuable
real estate, was settled by the aid of
photography. The turning point Of
the suit was as to whether an old deed,
executed seventy-f1ve years ago, had
five signatures or only four. There
were spaces for five, but only traces of
four visible. The clerk of the court
was ordered to have the deed photo
graphed by an expert. He took it to
Washington for that purpose. The
negative developed some evidence of
the missing signature, but on charging
it ten times the whole name came forth
distinctly.
The younger Agrippina, the daugh-
ter Of the widow of Germanicus, was b
widow of entirely different species
from her mother. When young girl
she married Roman gentleman, who
soon after died under suspicious cir
cumstanees. She next captivated q rich
old patrician, who also died very soon
after the union She then fascinated
her uncle, the emperor Claudius. and
persuaded him to marry her. She is
believed to have had a hand in his
death as also in that of several persons
who opposed the accession of her son
Nero to the imperial throne. After in
Vulnerable crimes she was finally put
to death by command of her equally
infamous son.
There is printing office in Vienna
the sole employment of which is the
announcement of fetes, plays, concerts,
etc, nothing else being printed but
plaeards The proprietor of the estab-
lishment has many peSsons in his serv-
ice who thoroughly understand the
most striking way of announcing such
matters to the street public by unique
arrangement of allnring words. The
monster types used are all wood; the
effect of the great colored letters upon
mems eyes and faneies is always specu-
lated upon In the pictorial announce
ments of estates for sale the letters are
often composed of pictures of castles
and rural views, the effect of which is
very catchy and sure to please the
eye.
There are good many middle aged
and elderly people who are grieved on
account of the increase of their rotund-
ity as they grow older. The late Ed
mund Yates, of London, who had been
particularly proud of his light and
shapely figure in early life. mourned
its loss when he had turned forty, and
mourned vet more afterward when he
got beyond 200 pounds. 1t is said that
Howells, the novelist, often tells how
he wishes that he were as slight as he
was thirty years ago. Gen. Miles, who
was u slender young officer during the
war, is now. to his grief, one of the
! heaviest men in the army. There are
WAYS and means by which a man or a
woman may restrain the undue extern
sion of the physical frame. but few of
| the people who have attained great
bulk feel disposed to make use of the
means of reducing it.
Mr.. Robert F. Walsh, ia the Popular
Science Monthly, thus recalls the origin
! of the present menhaden industry: 1t
was in 1850 when an old lady, Mrs. John
Bartlett, of Bluehill, Me. boiling some
! fish for her chickens, observed thin
scum of oil upon the surface of the
water. Some of this she bottled, and
when on visit to Boston soon after
carried samples to leading oil mer-
chant, who encouraged her to bring
more. The following year the Bartlett
family industriously applied their gill
nets and sent to market thirteen bar
! rels of oil, for which they were paid al
the rate of eleven dollars per barrel
In the following year this family made
one hundred barrels. Then the value
of menhaden oil having become recog
nized. many oil presses--of more OF
4 less imperfect constrnction--were es
tablished along the coast, and the in
dustry developed SO rapidly that within
twenty years the yield of menhaden Of
exceeded that Of the whale from thu