Evening star., 1896-07-25


There is no absolute remedy for the
bites of mosquitoes or other insects OBJ
served a physician; that is, nothing that
will make you good as new. instantly,
but have found that the ordinary house
hold ammonia is as good as anything else.
1t should be applied freely to the bite ex-
cept in cases where the bites are above
the eyes. In such cases 1 would not use it,
for the reason that should any of it get
in the eyes 1t would give considerable pain.
For flea bites ammonia is also very effec
tual. For the stinss of bees. hornets or
wasps apply the ordinary bread soda damp
ened by water in the form of a paste or
ammonia Allow it to remain on the part
affected as long as possible. and at least
fer ten minutes
The alkali in the ammonia or soda neu-
traliZes the poison in the bite, which is
generally acid. The witch hazel which Is
much used now Is also good for bites OF
any kind. 1t neutraliZes the irritation and
will do considerable IN the way of keeping
children from scratching the bites or irri-
tated places.
People. however much they may think
so.are not buying sugar corn in the markets
these days" remarked a dealer. "for the
reason the sugar corn in this section of the
- N~--
days. Then there will be plenty of it, for
my observation In a recent tour Of the sur
rounding country, where rnuch of the gar
den truck sold in this city Is raised, con-
v!nced me that the sugar corn VIII be not
only nice. but plentiful The corn which
has been selling for sugar corn Is known TO
farmers as Adams early. 1t ripanS couple
of weeks in advance of the sugar corn and
Is generally sold for sugar corn. When the
real article comes into market buyers will
be able TO the difference Some house
keepers add sugar to the water In which
the Adams early Is boiled. This supplies
the deficiency some, but the best sugar
corn is that which grows
Though Congress at the last session pro-
vided the members of the House with an
annual clerk at 81. 200. and previous Con-
gress similarly provided Senators with
clerks. or secretaries. as they are called"
volunteered experienced official at the
Capitol. the people at large have not been
much benefited by. the appropriations ex-
pended for this purpose The theory was
that these clerks or secretaries would re-
main in this city during the recesses of
Congress and attend to the routine bust
ness of the Congressman. The whole thing
has been diverted. however. and more than
rwo-th!rds OF the congressman. Represen-
tattves and Senators alike use the money
pioy at their private law offices or business
houses at their homes. One of the results
fs that in case a constituent writes to
Representative or Senator here the letter
Is forwarded to him his clerk at his
home The matter is attended 10 from that
end Generally the constituent Is inform
ed that the Information or action desired
Will be attended to on my return to Wash
ington-
lseaiy-made bridges are something new
under the sum-" explained a well-known
and prominent bridge builder "for there
are number of concerns now which keep
on hand a full stock of ready-mads iron
bridges of nearly all sizes. BY this 1 do
not mean that 1 could pick up ready-made
a bridge as long as the Long bridge. 1
would have no difficulty. however, in find
Ing readyDade and packed so that 1t could
be shipped in less than a nalf day after
the order was received a number of bridges
as long as the so-called Chain bridge on the
upper Potomac The customers for the
ready made bridges are mostly railroad
companies. who. when they want anything
want it mighty bad. and are in an awful
hurry for it, Only recently a railroad
bridge was washed away from a stream in
Pennsylvania In less than two hours a
bridge ninety-seven feet long and nineteen
and half feet wide was ordered by WIRE
In six hours every part of 1t was shipped
time trains were running regularly over it,
1t had to be hauled over two hundred
miles. too
Il have adopted a rule never to give any
verbal prescriptions to patients" remarked
a leading physician, for 1 have observed
that in many cases harm is done by It,
Ny rule now is to put IN writing all the
orders 1 leave for patients. 1t is surpris-
a
cine IS something which the ordinary man
or woman gives but little attention to- OF
course. now and then we find patients who
take to medicines naturally and who un-
der5tand them, their names and action al
most as do physicians. but this does not
often happen. for that class of persons sell
dom allow themselves to get sick enough
to need a physician. To the ordinary per-
son VINO is not sick on an average over one
or two days In that number of years medi-
cfnes are past their understanding, and
they get things wonderfully mixed
To illustrate. Some days ago a store
keeper called at my Office to show me a
sore foot. As he had never had sore foot
before. ne thought ii was something very
serious.
Il explained it to him by saying that 1t was
simply chafe caused by the hot weather
and all that he needed was to apply a little
vasellne 10 II once or twice day. In few
minutes afterward l was in a drug store
near by. using a telephone. Imagine my
surprise when l heard him ask the druggist
for small quantity of gasoline 1 turned
to him and asked him what he intended to
DO with the gasoline. for somehow / noticed
that his mind was preoccupied when ] pre-
scr1bed for him. and that he paid but little
attention TO what said. and he told me he
intended using 1t on his foot as / had ad-
vised him. That settled 1t with me- and I
immediately adopted a rule I had bean
thinking about for several years and now
write out everything I prescribe for pa
tients- 1t may cost them moro this way
but II Is safer FOR them. and win pay In the
end Had he put gasoline on bis foot II
would have almost set him crazy, and he
would have blamed me. instead OF his own
non-attention."
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THE clock business gets a eood-sized
ooom-that is. the repair brnnoh-by the
closing up of houses for the summer" OBJ
served well-known clock repairer. when
the folks return in the early fall they find
many of their clocks out of order and tho
clock repairer has TO be called In. Hardly
anything does a good clock as much harm
as allowing 1t to stand for several months.
When a clock is not running dust gets into
II and absorbs the oil used to lubricate the
bearings In little while ii cakes up and
when the time arrives for the llock TO be
started again It will not go. 1t would be a
good thing IL a clock Is allowed q rest for
several months IL IL WAS carefully coya,.afJ