Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-23

| killed many persons, and it is pretty
we'll known nowadays that it is not
safe to eat many peach pits or cherry
kernels at once. Among the garden
plants commonly in vogue which
possess a poisonous nature botanists
mention the jonquil, white hyacinth
and snowdrop, the narcissus being
also particularly deadly-so much so,
indeed, that to chew a small scrap of
one of the bulbs may result fatally,
while the juice Of the leaves is an
emetic. There is enough opium in
red pepper to do mischief, and the
autumn orocus, if the blossoms are
chewed, causes illness. The lobelias
are all dangerous, their juice, if swal-
lowed, producing giddiness, with
pains in the head. Lady's slipper
poisons in the same way as does
poison ivy. The bulbs seem to be the
most harmful. Lilies of the valley
are also as poisonous. The leaves
and flowers of the oleander are deadly
and the bark of the catalpa tree is
very mischievous. The water drop
wort, when not in flower, resembles
celery, and is virulent.
The fear of yellow fever among the
people has almost entirely obscured
the danger from diptheria, says DR..
Alvah H. Doty in the North Ameri
can Review, tuberculosis and typhoid
fever and other infectious diseases
which confront us at all times and
during all seasons. The danger from
a case Of diptheria in New York at
any season of the year is far greater
than the danger from a case Of yellow
fever in the same place; still, persons
who would shun street where a case
Of yellow fever existed would deliber-
ately enter the apartment of person
suffering from diphtheria. A serious
outbreak of typhoid fever creates but
little consideration, and the presence
in our midst of innumerable cases Of
tuberculosis, a disease which is
responsible for an incredible number
of deaths, is looked upon with in
difference by the public. The mis-
conception in regard to the danger
from this class of diseases often
renders the efforts of health officials
Intellectual.
Doctors say that cold ankles kill
more women than nerves and disease
put together. This may be an ex-
aggeration, remarks the New York
Sun, but it is not to say that when the
ankles are well protected and kept
perfectly warm their owner is not
likely to suffer with colds. "Stock
breeders say that cold can be borne
by animals only at an expense of fat
or muscle or vitality, and SO it is with
women" said fashionable boot
maker recently. 'And yet they persist
in wearing thin stockings and thin
low CHARTERED shoes long after the
summer has passed. But they are i'm
proving in this respect as we'll as in
every other as time goes by. Ten
years ago we sold as many low shoes
in winter, shoes with an excuse for a
sole, as we aid in summer. Not so
now. When a woman comes in and
buys a pair of low shoes at this sea-
son for outdoor wear we know that
she is one of two things, vain or
silly"
A remedy for damp cellars is sug-
gested as follows by German tech
nical journal: Take old preserve cans
and put therein calcium chloride, a
pound of this salt sufficing for large
cellar The same attracts the water
from the air, which collects in the
cans. This, however, is not poured
away, but is evaporated on strong
fire, whereby the salt crystalizes again
and becomes fit for renewed use. Es-
pecially for potato cellars this process
is very serviceable, since the sprout-
ing of the potatoes, though not en-
tirely prevented, is considerably re-
tarded thereby.