The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-22
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An eminent physician declares that
no young person should be permitted
to drink tea or coffee until he or she
has attained the age Of eighteen years.
In the young these beverages unduly
excite the nervous system, and have an
Injurious effect upon the digestive or
ganS.
There is but one kind Of poison ivy
Cxnown to botanists as Rhus taxicoden-
dron). This has three leaves. Another
climbing, trailing shrub of the same
general appearance, on walls and rail
fences, is the Virginia creeper. This is
not poisonous and has five leaves, says
q writer in st. Nicholas. 1t will help
YOU to remember which is the poison
Gus and which the harmless if you pic
ture the three leaves as the index hand
pointing ''go;" that is, the three leaves.
representing the three parts Of the in
6ex hand-thumb, forefinger, clasped
fingers. Regard the five-leaved as the
thumb and four fingers OF the hand
opened in welcome.
One of the most remarkable results
of the recent Mont Pelee erUptions, to
the geologist. is the present apex Of
rock which forms the summit OF the
mountain. This apparently consists of
a mass of lava, which was forced up
through the crater so gradually that,
instead of running in streams down
the sides of the mountain, it Solidified
and formed an enormous cork in the
volcanic crater, with its base thous-
ands of feet down in the earth. 1t is
from 500 to 900 feet in height above the
crater and $50 feet in thickness. Its
surface has, in some places, a cavern
Gus. shaggy appearance; in others
polished. and shining structure. There
seems to be small hole through its
centre down into the volcano, as steam
and fire balls have been seen to issue
from its summit. 1t grew very rap
idly in height, rising at one time over
forty feet in eight days.
It is. suggested by Louis Rabourdin,
q French writer, that in each OF the
new stars that blaze forth in the heav
ems from time TO time, we see the de-
struction of celestial body by vol
canic cataclysm. At any rate, he says,
if part of the earth's crust underlying
the ocean should give way, our earth
would doubtless present in succession,
to a distant observer, the same series
of appearances that we witness in the
case of novae or new stars" First,
there would be an outburst Of blazing
hydrogen from the sea water, decom-
posed by the earths internal heat, then
fusion of the whole crust, reducing the
globe again to a molten state, and then
the gradual extinction of its light ow-
ing to cooling. AS cooling would first
take place locally. we should have
variable star, the darkened portions
being periodically brought into view
by the rotation of the globe.
There are three types Of opium eat
the City Hospital, New York-those
who take the drug IN the form or q
medicinal preparation, such as lauda-
mum, paregoric and the extract Of lau-
danum; those who smoke it and inhale
the fumes into the lungs, and those
who take hypodermic injections OF
morphia. The second class-the smok-
ers-comprise the largest number OF
victims. DR.. Jelliffe estimates that
fully 10000 people in the city of New
York are addicted to the. opium habit
in some form. The annual sale OF
opium in Vermont is equivalent, ac-
cording to the doctor, to a grain for
every adult in the State, an amount OBJ
viously far greater than can be ac-
counted for by its consumption for me-
dicinal purposes. Some slaves to the
drug take it regularly every day; 9TH
ers have periodical sprees similar to
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