The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-04-10
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WOOD. PULP ..Po,tUL,T-lcEsr

Their Ready Application Is only One
ae- of Their MANY Advantases.t..
sIAl United States naval surgeon adYo-
Gates the substitution of wood pulp
sheets for f1axseed meal, etc, in max
ing pouitices., He cuts sheet of the
pulp to'a size approximate to the sur
face to, be covered, soaks the sheet In
hot water until it has become thor
oughly softened, then wrings it out
very lightly and applies, The wood
pulp sheet viii absorb and hold from
four to i've, times its weight of water
and, since heat and moisture are the
df!ssidsrata II .potiltices, this furnishes
them IN simple, clean VI form, No cloths
are needed, no cooking, no stirring and
spreading on cloth-just q soaking In
hot water. And the incest part is the
total absence Of the mess inevitable in
lnakings, flaaxseed meal, pouItices, al
though there is. too, q great economy Of
time ana trouble. It is sometimes ad-
vissaable TO put a piece Of oiled muslin
over the sheet. to help retain the heat
and moisture. . ~, ~ Z ..' -.
When the poultice begins ia get
cola take it off, wiring Z out the water
and soak 1t again in hot water. and so
on indie Hnitely. The surgeon has used
the same sheet Of pulp wood for two
days poulticing, in the hands Of an
ignorant man at that, his instructions.
to him being ito soak the plaster in
hot water whenever it got cold and put
it on again. By the way,-eyery physi-
eian8 who las had the, annoyance and
trouble being Compelled totfeave the
allimportant matter d poulticing togan
ignorant person Will appreciate d way
that VIII ALLOW no. loophole fol: mistakes
alHfd failures Pfhfladelphia Record, s's :,
~ ~ u rio His}orlsssl pqcuman,,tt SIT
The charter III which the church was
first granted tithes in England is
curious historical document. "A literal
translation follows: Il, Ethelwolfe, by
the grace III God, King of the west
Saxons With the adyice Of tHs Bishops,
Earl is and ind all persons ,pf distinction IA
my dominions, have foT the health Of
my soul, the.gootk of my, people, and
the prosperity sofamy kingdom, taken
the honorable resolution of granting
the tenth part Of the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and
Ministers Of religion, to be enjoyed by
thgp, YiY MI 4he IphE ilegeL df FREE sks
teF3re, Land discharged Afrom an the iK
eunit5aanees fncident til laysfeds. This
grant has , been made made py Hs .inzhonour
and all saihts, and outtf Of III regard to
mighty Sod laightl syppchsafsfht bless
ings on us and on our posterity. Dated
at Wilton, Ann. Dom. $50, at the Feast
of Easters1 \
eeoIs leal time.
An Ingenious heory for the sessttifnflta -
ton OF the tim of Observation-Disclosures
logical peSiods 4 S been propounded by
an engineer lose york on tWestern
railroads akesS hinias intoa pftmitiKe
country Hs |ssay tAat.in one great de
pression9Sin Wyoming the trsesAave
been recording tli rate of erosion of
the slopes fof baht 300 years SO accu-
ratelE thatsthe Aata y be obtained by
CAREFUL study Sf them will beSa fac
tor oil exkelne portance in enabling
scientists CALVERT geological time
into years. While he has not yet lad
time to collect those data properly, he
makes the rough deductiont that. &C.
coraing to.atAeiriraeopds the plioeene
and plsist9fen ne R S9a You'd re rep
sent about 100000 years, and that
on this BASIS, the tenizoic time would
be about 4,QONO 0U years This would
mean thatlall geoiogic alytimet from tthe
beginning Eof the Cambrian epocE
Would be $4,000, 900 years y
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