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| that full opportunity had been given
for testing their work in all the most
important operations, with the result
that all prejudice which had hitherto
existed against them had been dissi-
pated, and that they now held a sound
reputation for ability in this line of
work. There had been nearly 1900
cases of maternity treated at the hos
pital without one death, due to that
cause. In the aggregate there were
| o17 major operations, with a mortality
of less than per cent.
One of the latest theories is that
celery is a cure for rheumatism; in
deed, it is asserted that the disease
| is impossible if the vegetable be cooked
and freely eaten. The celery should
be cut into pieces and boiled in water
until soft, and the water drunk by the
| patient. Put new milk, with little
| flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with
| the boiled celery, serve II warm with
| pieces of toast, eat ii with potatoes,
and the painful ailment Will soon yield.
| Such is the declaration of a physician,
| who, Ii is said, has again and again
| tried the experiment, and with uni
| form success. He adds that cold or
damp never produces, but simply de-
! velops, the disease, of which acid blood
| Is the primary and sustaining cause,
and that. while the blood is alkaline,
there can be neither rheumatism nor
govt.
The late NJ. Xaxier de Montepin,
| the French novelist, who died the 9TH
er day in Paris, always referred to one
of his early experiences with particu-
lar zest. On concluding a long and
elaborate tale of adventure, he took it,
full of hope, to publisher, who
promptly declined 1t on even the most
| advantageous terms, to the writer's
poignant mortiflca ton. Twenty years
| afterward this identical publisher be-
sought at his hands a sensational
story-one of those serials which were
the delight of grisettes-offering any
price within reason. We'll" said De
Montepin, II will oblige you, but my
terms must be somewhat heavy. L
want $4,000" After many protests it
was paid. In telling the story De
Montepin added: The best of the bus
mess was that ii was the very same
story which he had previously rejected,
and which 1 had in various directions
| endeavored in vain to dispose Of"
IN suggestive little article (Oph-
thalmic Record, January, 1902, DR..
George S. Hull Of Pasadena reads a
needed lesson to Eastern physicians
who are Indifferent to OF ignorant of
the powerful influence for evil of eye
strain upon the general system, and
who send their patients to California
instead of the home oculist, says
American Medicine. ''It is surprising"
he says, how many neurasthenics
| cross the continent in search of health
who have uncorrected errors of refrac-
ton, which are the largest factors in
their break downs" The glare of the
nm in, lafC 90 l.
them, upon arriving, to seek the local
oculist there, who, in relieving eye
strain, relieves also the stomach trou-
BILE, the headaches, the insomnia, de-
preston of spirits spinal exhaustion
etc, for which they came. Even when
there is such organic disease as pull
| monary tuberculosis the cure is hast
ened, complicating symptoms relieved
and life made more enjoyable by this
| aid.
1t would, perhaps, be incorrect,
says the London Mail, to suppose that
so old-established and well-conncted a
| firm as Messrs. Hedges & Butler the
| wine merchants of Regent street could
| ever be startled out of their equanim-
ity. But they had a genuine surprise
| this week in the shape of a check for
| EOS Us Sd from the Court of Chancery
|
customer in 1916, the year after the
battle of Waterloo. A peep into the
| firms ledgers for 1916 shows that the
| customer ran up a small account, and
then, in faded, old fashioned writing,
| follow entries of a meeting of credi-
tors and the payment of a composition
| in the pound which reduced the debt
! by some &S. Some months ago an
Industrious deliver into the lists of those
for whom money is waiting in Chan
| Gerry, If they can prove their claim
came upon the names of Hedges &
| Butler. 1t seems that their customer
! had set aside for the benefit of his
creditors the sum of over $4,000 in
new consols." The value of those
consls. with the accumulated interest,
has been greatly enhanced. Proof If
the debt was easy. for the ledgers 20
back to 1867, and thus it came aoout
| that for debt of about ego and near
1 ly century old the firm received from
the Court of Chancery a check for
nearly a century of sovereigns.
-Jumal Khan, brother of Mahomet
Khan, also known as "Mahomet
| Can't" is in town, having recently
arrived from Hyderabad at the press
ing invitation of his brother, says the
Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. Both
| are 1ugglerS, or fakirS. Jumal has a
| large sheet of cloth, done in divers
colors, with an alleged presentment of
| JumaPs classic features distorted by
the performance of the juggler's ultra
| exclusive speciality, which consists of
suspending trifle of stone weighing
| 100 pounds from his eyeballs by means
of couple of silver cups and a rope.
| Jumal says that no one can do the
| paving-stone and eye stunt but he
| He says that he just practiced with
| small pieces of wood and stone. grad
ually increasing their weight until
| he could toy with a hundred-pound
| slab with an easy abandon. When he
! was in the primary stages of his edu-
cation he says that his eyes frequently
bled while practcing, so great was
| the strain imposed on them. The feat
| in itself seems to be a very simple
! one. Attached to the rope directly
supporting the stone are two silver
cups which just fit the eyeballs of
| the juggler. Jamal Khan states that
he places the cups under his eyeballs,
| and, shutting his eyes with a vise-like
grip, lifts the rock from the ground
until it is level with his waist
Bishop Stone Wigg, of NewGuinea.
now visiting in England, says: 'Epis-
copal duties in New-Guinea are va
ried. Recently I had to act as chief
pigsticker at a great feast. 1t was
| the biggest function of the kind that
has been held for sixteen years. and
fully two thousand natives were gath
cred together from the surrounding
hills to participate in its The whole
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