Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-17
PHYSIOL LOGICAL FACTS.

Eye-stain, or excessive abnormal in- nervation of the eye muscles, depletes the nerve centers. It also gives rise to brain irritation of varying degrees. Dis positions are altered by it; characters are forcibly changed; mental faculties are impelled into channels of work that are anomalous. Into such an altered state these conditions may force be- ing as to make him appear to the world an entirely different character from what he otherwise would have been. So, If these disturbing conditions can be cor rected we may expect favorable changes in the physical, mental and moral parts of the individual.
 The first operation for the removal of the jugular was performed in India by an English surgeon, a Dr. smith on an East Indian who had such bad tumor on his neck that death was cer- tain To cut down and take out piece of the famous old vein was simply rash experiment in which Dr. Smith him. self had very little confidence. As soon as the news of its success was distrib- uted through the medical world the vein immediately lost some of its great pres tige and the tumor of the neck much or it's horror You may be sure that pr. Smith did not tell the Indian what he
 
 have probably died of fright on the spot, for the natives of India regard the jugu- lar as the seat of all life. But the pres tige of the jugular has received even a greater blow. A few weeks ago In case of inflammation of both sides of the neck and the resulting disease or the WaIis ol both jugulars and the tissue around them, of a patient in British hospital, another rash experiment was attempted the removal of both jugulars. It sue ceeded. The patient IS upon ms rect again and lively as he ever was, ana 10 be slashed in the jugular has now no ter TOTS for him.
 A lady who was one day watching a pair of redstarts as they worked in tree was startled by violent commot1on that arose in the shrubbery hard by. Catplrds screamed, wrens scolded and the robins shouted ''Quick! quickr' with all their might. A chipmunk was dragging baby catbird by the leg from its nest and All the birds round about had come to help make a row about it, including Baltimore oriole The screaming and the swish of wings as the birds darted about made the little squirrel abandon its prey and then the commotion subsded as quickly as it had risen. All the birds but the oriole went about their business else where. The oriole had not said word so far and beyond countenancing the hubbub by his presence had had no part in it. The squirrel, having dropped the baby catbird, cooked itself upon limb and began to chatter in a defiant way, while the oriole sat not far away looking at it but doing nothing else, But in a few moments the squirrel left it's seat and ran out on the limb it had been sitting op un- til it had to use care to keap it's hold and then the orioles opportunity for an as- sault had come. Flashing across the J,.a oh 1IrL n with his sharp pointed beAk, and then, turning instantly, struck the other eye in like manner Quivering with pain the squirrel let go of the limb and dropped to the ground, where it rolled and strug- gled about apparently in the threes of death. The oriole flew away to its favor. liant fashion. The lady put the squirrel out of its misery and then saw that the oriole had destroyed both eyes.