Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-25

The notion that small and regular
doses Of camphor impart to the com
plexion a peculiar clear creaminess is
said by a London physician to have de-
veloped a new habit among many we'll
to-do young women. Like other drug
taking habits, this is difficult to abandon
after it is once established. Mild exhilar-
alton and stupefaction are produced, and
the doses are often very large. In some
cases the effects are hardly to be dis
tinguished from those of alcohol Elk
IRENE weakness generally follows regu-
lar doses, and the camphor-eaters all
have a dreamy, dazed and very ~listless
air, usually with a constant longing to
sleep. The complexion, instead of being
in any way improved, is given CHASTITY
pallor.
The reputation of being the driest spot
on earth is claimed for Payta, in Peru,
a place about five degrees south of the
equator on a coast that has risen 40 feet
in historic times. Professor David q.
Faifchild, a recent visitor, reports having
reached there in February just after a
rain Of more than "a hours, the first for
eight years. The average interval be-
tween two showers is seven years. Sea-
fogs are ommon OF about nine species
of plants noticed, seven were ANIMALS,
and their seeds must have remained dor.
mant in the ground for eight years. LII
spite of the lack of rain, the long-rooted
efuVi cotton is grown in the dried-up
river bed, furnishing crops that yield sub
sistcnce to the natives.
Men able to treat plant diseases is a
need discovered by an English botanist,
who predicts that the time will come
when every agricultural district will have
its plant doctor, and when specialists in
animal parasites, cryptogalnic botany
and bacteriology will be consulted in diff
ficult and obscure cases. The practice of
plant medicine is in its infancy. With
increased competition in crop raising,
however, the farmer cannot afford to
neglect the aid he can get in keeping his
plants in the highest degree of health.
Massage of rheumatism finger-joints is
praoticed by a German physician in a
deeD vessel tWo-thirds full of quicksilver.
The patients hand is alternately plunged
into tile mercury and withdrawn from ii
~ or 50 times at eaCl treatment, and the
effect Of the equal and considerable pres
sure on every part OF the fingers is usual
~ unmarked diminution of swelling after
the second visit.
The famous cheese of Roquefort is a
result of peculiar geological conditions.
The village is but a mass of rocks. be-
ing in one of the poorest districts of
france. and the soil produces only food
for sheep, the milk of the ewes being
collected from the surrounding country
and made into cheese. This has been
going on for centuries, a chronicle of 1910
referring to the cheese industry. The
ewes milk is first curdled with care
fully dried and preserved rennet, the eura
is shaped in cylindrical clay moulds,
about s inches in diameter and three
inches deep. and a powder of mouldy
bread is then scattered over the young
cheese. This mouldy bread is prepared
with great care from wheat and barley,
mixed with strong yeast and a little
vinegar and water. The qualities of the
Rouuefort. cheese, however. are attrib-
uted to the cellars IN which the ripen-
ing takes place, the original cellars hav-
ing been natural holes or caves in the
rock, and the later ones being limitations