The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-20
TETANUS.

| lockiaw in New York A special cable
on this subject has been sent to the n.
Y Herald from Paris The fatal case
of tetanus in this city recently will give
a degree of interest to comments ON the
disease
When the jaws are clinched any at
tempt to separate them causes spasin
which increases the contraction. Some
times the body becomes so rigid that it
can be raised by the head and feet and
carried in recumbent position.
There are two forms Of tetanus the
acute and the chronic. There is no
case on record of the cure of acute teta-
nus Wounds in the hands or feet most
/ frequently give rise to tetanus Of 1000
cases reported 30 per cent. resulted from
wounds in the extremities
| Tetanus comes by incubation The
bacillus is to be found in gardens and
fields which have been MANFRED. 1t is
found in the excrement of horses and
comes even when they are healthy. The
contact of earth from gardens, richly
manured. with wounds in the hands or
feet is the greatest source of the contrac-
ton of the disease. The serum Of ami
mails proof against the disease renders
the poison harmless, but it is prevent
i've and not cure.
WILL DELANO has "A most peculiar
fruit-bearing plant in his garden. 1t is
a cross between strawberry and Il rasp-
berry tbs both plants and it is neither,
1t has a shrub growth but evinces a creep
ing disposition The leaves are Il deci
ded compromise, The fruit has a comb
nation of the flavor of both but comes
later in the season than either and bears
continuously the balance of the season
blossoms and fruit appearing on the same
shrub. There is a variety of this mong-
rel plant which creeps the strawberry
feature predominating
THE July Review of Reviews has an
article on brick paving written by the
assistant state geologist of Iowa. He is
decidedly Of the opinion that brick pave
ment has advantages no other material
possesses. He says it does not require
any high degree of skill to lay or repair
it, il is clean, fairly noiSeless and under
ordinary conditions, long-lived. The
hui. Il ~
be used now as the quality of brick now
manufactured is much superior. No
brick pavement of first class quality has
yet worn ont A list of % cities in the
middle West, having brick pavement, is
given and the number of miles each has
Milwaukee leads, with over II miles
POLICEMAN SNIFFIN picked up bi-
cyclist on Sunday afternoon who was
mad at his bicycle because it threw
him. It must have thrown him pretty
hard a. he was covered with mud and
was swearing eloquently in medley of
languages, evidently trying to give u re-
production of the confusion which pre-
vailed at the Tower Of Babel He tried
to break the bicycle but his own weight
and that of the load he carried was I'M
equal to the task, He was taken to the
Jail with his "boycycle' and let loose the
following morning, He is a farm hand,
GEORGE KENNEDY bought horse re-
Gently with one leg longer than any one
of the other three The horse was not
disconnected by the ambitious leg nor
did he suffer any embarrassment by reas-
ON of lack of symmetry. But George
wanted to fix him up so that the defect
if long leg can be SO denominated-
would not give fools an opportunity to
ask questions. George had the dispro-
portioned animal at the blacksmithshop
getting stills on the other legs, He had
answered questions regarding that leg I'M
til patience ceased to be virtue Final
ly a son of Israel asked what was the
matter with the leg. Il dino, said
George Il suppose some Sheenv pulled
it. George values that long leg now
more than he does the rest Of the horse.
A GOOD story is told on DR.. Currens
the events Of which occurred while he
was in Madison last week attending a
meeting of the medical board OF examin
ers The doctors cHtbonpoot gives him
a decidedly clerical appearance which
on this occasion was heightened some
what by clerical garb in keeping with
the dignity of Il position on the board,
He put up at the Park and Just then
local reporters We're on the qui vive to
interview Catholic dignitaries who We're
arriving to be present at the Summer
School The doctor was taken TO be a
churchman OF high degree and he WAS
being interviewed by an ambitious re-
porter. CuIrens inadvertently dropped
"cuss word and that broke the spell
Next day the board set ont to call mp
on the governor to pay their respects.