Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-25

The part which imagination may play
IN ailments or in cures is well known.
Here m a specific case from Phila-
delphia, published in the Record of that
city. The president of a local financial
institution had been laboring under the
deluslon that hair was growing in his
throat. He visited doctor after doctor
ana they all laughed at him. The thing
is preposterous," they said, after careful
examination. But still the man insisted
.hat they were wrong and worked him
Sell into a condition bordering on ner-
Vous prostratiOn. Finally he went to the
young surgeon in question, who at once
ueclded upon a plan of action. ''I1l fix
you all right in a jiffy,' he said. Then
ne went into an ante-room. shipped a
couple of hairs from his wrist and fas-
tened them to the end of an instrument.
1ieturning to the patient, he inserted the
instrument down the mans throat, gave
There We're the hairs sure enough. 1t
sWasra stroke of genius, for the man
with the imaginary complaint at once
RESUMED his r%rmal condition, and the
young surgeon was rewarded with a fat
fee.
y 4 -
William Jennings Bryan had stopped
in his travels to visit the Lone Star
mine, and. finding a group of men gath
Erred about a large piece Of machinery,
he paused, turned his face in their di-
%rection, and began his customary bid
for votes.
After declaring his great love for work
and all connected with it, he said:
MY friends, you are engaged in the
noplest occupation known to man. When
l see a grand piece of machinery like
TINS 1T has a wonderful fascination for
me. l feel myself drawn into a close
mpat with it's labors: it appeals to
me personally; it. What is the mat
ter? he asked in a low tone to a friend
tails.
cut her short, colonel, and get out of
mere the friend whispered hoarsely:
fthat blamed thing is the biggest wind
pump IN he whole state Of C, Iorado."-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
In a communication recently made to
tne Agricultural Society Of France, M.
Vasslllere gave an account Of a new pro-
cess OF preserving wine from the action
OF microbes which attack it when in the
cask. he wine is placed in a cask
Which has been left empty for some tine
IL IS SUBJECT to deterioration owing to the
acton OF the different microbes, these
pelng propagated when the wine is in
Cosllact with the air. The eXpedient gen.
erhiy In use consists in burning sulphur
- nc eiHpe cdSK TO purify It,. The eX-
perlmenter proposes to remedy the diff
Guilty by covering the wine with a layer
ofvcarbonic acid gas, which, being more
dnese, drives out the air and takes it's
plhee. The carbonic acid is liquifed in
tubes OF chrome steel rovided with a
RESERVOIR in which it takes the gaseous
form before passing INTO the cask; the
reservoir is provided with a rubber tube
which descends into the cask, and also
with a pressure gauge by whose indica-
ftons the supply of gas is regulated. By
this method very good results have been
attained and at a small cost.
o. --
IeThe Westminster Budget says that it
wasonce usual for Highland Shepherds to
take their dogs to church and leave them
outside the pews. Two shepherds at en-
nifty sat on opposite sides of the aisle
one Sunday. Soon after the sermon be-
gan the dogs-one a collie and the other
not-seened to enter into their masters
quarrel. One tender of the flock and
then the other egged on his animal,
ana each faithful dog obeyed his mas
ter! The people at last craned their necks
over the pews, and when the dogs ac-
tually fought, not a few Of the SON.
gregation were standing us. Ine minis
tiers patience was ultimately exhaust
ed. and SO he called to his "hearers''
and said: "Ah, weel, my britherin, I
see We are more interested in the dog
hght than in my sermon, and so I'll close
the buike-and I'll bet half a crown on
the collie!"