Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-27

laturo? No one but the boarding houses and dealers in damp goodsl
 Who will be first to move in the dog tax direction?
 But the dog is not alone n source of annoyance to the invalid especially. "I put up at the Skinye sanitarium with my husband" said lady some days ago. Ut had been recommended to us by some ole who know evidently noth- ing about it. It is a sort of experimental institution for the advancement of sci ence. and tho mortality there reminds one of the good old days of the guillo- tine ill France.
 The experiments arc largely ill the direction of inoculation for tuberculosis. A flock of guinea hens are inoculated, and from them serum or laudable pus is taken to use in inoculating people who como here to be benefited by the glori- ous climate. These guinea hens are early risers, and in the first gray of dawn may be heard using their metallic voices and comparing their symptoms beneath the patients windows.
 Nothing can be sadder than the voice of guinea as she tells between coughs what restless night she put in, and what her temperature and pulse and res piration and sputa are.
 II took my husband there from the depot. and of course he was very much exhausted. He needed rest. That was all Hc did not need any guinea pus, but the physician thought he did. He thought my husbands pulse was too high. He had something which he de- sired to inject into my husbands s arm to lower his pulse. My husband was a physician himself and said no, he did not care to havo things injected into his arm, but before we could prevent it the doctor had deftly donc it, and my hus- hand'S pulse did go down. It almost dis appeared. He has since died, but de- termined to get away from this institu- tion as soon as I could, for the early dawn woke us both with its music from the pus farm and guinea antitoxine conservatory.
 II was held as a prisoner, however, and so was my husband. had to bribe the servants to help me get away. It is q sad place, a wayside house of dcten- lllNu Ou lIlC ICSttl lO tue IOIlD.
 "Sometimes we had hard boiled guinea eggs for breakfast; but. oh, could not eat them! Do you blame me, Mir Nye, when tell you that turned away to conceal my tears as thought of those poor pcrishinS guinea hens, ever reSp0n- Sivo to duty. even ill the face of ap- proachinG death. maybe after q feveriSh night and with hectic evidences of high temperature, yet going cheerfully away to their nests, and. though coughing so at times as to retain thcir positions with difficulty, yet mindful of the egg supply and never shirking from their duty for one moment: tell you it was pitiful to think of.
 Ex-Govcrnoc Robert L. Taylor lec- turcd in AShrville some time ago on The Fiddle and the Bow" Governor Taylor is a very interesting speaker, full of song and story, humor and pathoS Speaking of the drink disease, he says, If l were wife with drunken hus- band. would fill him so full of bi- chloride of gold that he would jingle as he walked, and tinklc as ho talked, and have fit at every mention of free sill vCr.
 Crops are looking we'll here. I shall begin harvesting nv rye ill a few days, There will be from three to four gallons tO the acre. I think, notwithstanding the frost.
 I have just got done paying for my sanitary plumbing. which burst last win ter during the cold spell A farmers