The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-12

business along the Maine coast. "A LOU pound
was recently taken in those waters, and so great a
curiosity was it that the two captors promptly ex-
changed it for perfectly good check for $3.50 The
purchasers present day P T. Barnums hope to reap
a small fortune by exhibiting the turtle at various
county fairs.
According to The Medical Press and Circular of
London red nose is by no means a sign of drunk
enness and is as among teetotallers
tpplers Indigestion is responsible almost than
anything else for red noses, while excessive tea
drinking is apt to play havoc with the complexion
in general and with the nose in particular. Some
times the congested nose is a sign of some serious
disorder of the heart it may point to sluggish
circulation The habit of inhalng cigarette smoke
and putting it through the nostrils may contribute
to the external wealth of color.
The Lancet has discovered another menace to the
health of London in the statement made recently at
a meeting of one of the gas companies that 100000
600 cubic feet of gas escape every year. AT least
10 per cent of this gas and probably much more,
saws The Lancet 's the powerfully poisonous carbon
monoxide No wonder when there is movement
in the air and when there is stagnant mist fog
present Ca time by the way when the supply of
gas is in great demand), Londoners are found to
complain of headache dizziness and OPPRESSION all
three of which symptoms readily invoked by
chronic doses of carbon monoxide"
There are still to be found in Malta number of
small stones shaped and co1ored like the eyes,
tongues and other parts of serpents The super
stitious among the Maltese connect these with the
tradition that St. Paul, when shipwrecked cast
on their island and that it there while lighting
a bundle of sticks for a fire, viper fastened on
the apostles hand ST. Paul calmly shook the rep
tile off into the flames and no harm followed. The
natives therefore, wear these stones as tal1smans,
in which character they suppose them serviceable
in warding off dangers from snake bites and the in
huence of poisons. They found in "St. Pauls
Cave" embedded in clay, and are set in rings and
bracelets; and when found to be in the shape of
tongue or liver, heart, hung around the neck
They are also taken internally dissolved IN wine,
which method is attended, according to some people,
by more immediate results.
La jettatura, in the superstit1ous belief OF the
Italians, is the supposed power OF certain persons
of bewtching or harming others by their look lhe
person endowed with this faculty is called "Jetta-
tore" La jettatura is not invention OF yesterday,
as the belief in the 'evi eye" widespread among
the ancents and still prevails in Asia, Africa ana
Eastern Europe, and to certain extent IN western
Europe also The Greeks called it "alexlana," the
Latns "fascinum," the Jews zen ha-ra" The
anciens to avert the evil influence made use OF var
ous kinds of amu1ets in the form OF bracelets
and necklaces They believed that children, or those
enjoying great prosperity, or favored with run OF
good luck, and those whom exalted praise ana
aduation were lavished, in particular sus-
ceptibe to the effects of the evil eye For this rea-
son the Romans when praising person were won't
to odd "nr,a6ccn;v or "nre6scine dixerim" in order