The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-26
QUAINT OR CURIOUS.

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| ence such as governors of colonies and
| other persons abroad in high situations.
On the inside of an orficial portal in the
upper part of the New York postoffice
building there is displayed an original
and amusing variation of the please shut
the door sign" 1t reads this way: Take
this door with you as far as it will CO."
The outgoer who obeys this injunction
will inevitably find that ne has closed the
door.
In Australia they have a whale cure for
rheumatism which is said to be effective.
though disagreeable. 1t was discovered by
drunken man, who was staggering
along the beach near the whaling station
at Twofold bay, and who, seeing a dead
whale cut open, took a header into the
decomposed blubber. 1t took two hours
for him to work his way out, but he was
then not only sober. but cured of his
rheumatism. Now hotel has been built
in the neighboring town of Eden, where
rheumatic patients wait for the arrival
of a whale in order to take blubber
baths.
In a recent number of the Woman at
floHlt lUtIe II a SYMPOSIUM on
Love- in which a number of clever Eng
lishwomen took part. Florence Fenwick
Miller has a rather striking paragraph.
She says: Friendship ought to come first
and be the basis on which love is founded
But much misery would be spared the
girls II they could but understand that
the reverence or the admiration or to wish
to please that they so often begin to feel
and call friendship generally for men
older than themselves) is really nothing
else but the beginning of love-that colos-
SAL that rending and terrible force"
The hens of China lead busy lives.
When not engaged in Matching out a
brood of their own kind they are put to
the additional and novel task of Matching
fish eggs. Chinese cheap labor collects
the spawn of fish at the waters edge.
places 1t in an empty eggshell, which is
then Theoretically sealed with wax, and
places II under the unsuspecting sitting
hen. After some days the eggshell is re-
moved and carefully broken and the
spawn. which has been warmed into life.
is emptied into a shallow pool well
warmed by the sun. Here the minnows
that soon develop are nursed until strong
enough to be turned into a lake or
stream.
Much attention has been given lately to
the power of music as a curative agent.
One experimenter has discovered that
music affects the heart, stimulating the
action of the blood and causing II to
coincide with the changes in breathing.
Another says that the functional action Of
the skin is increased by music. Vienna
doctor has used music as a medicine
when patients were in frances and proved
that a man without music in his soul does
not exist One man aged 40, normally in
sensible to music, was hypnotized and
had Wagner selection played in his
hearing His pulse and respiration in
creased and when aroused he stated that
he had not heard the music as sound.
but only as a general sensation. feeling
like rushing through space.