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DUNUP ON DEBT – “It must
be confessed that my creditors are singularly unfortunate. They invariably
apply the day after I have spent all my money. I always say to them, `Now,
this is very provoking. Why didn’t you come yesterday, and I could
have paid you in full? But no, they never will. They seem to take perverse
pleasure in arriving always too late. It’s my belief the rascals
do it on purpose” – Punch.
MENTAL EXCITEMENT. – Bad news weakens the action
of the heart, oppresses the lungs, destroys the appetite, stops digestion,
and partially suspends all the functions of the system. An emotion of
shame flushes the face, fear blanches it, joy illuminates it, and an instant
thrill electrifies a million of nerves. Surprise spurs the pulse into
a gallop. Delirium infuses great energy. Volition commands, and hundreds
of muscles sprint to execute. Powerful emotion often kills the body at
a stroke; Chilo, Diagoras, and Sophocles, died of joy at the Grecian games.
The news of a defeat killed Philip the Fifth. The doorkeeper of Congress
expired upon hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis. Eminent public speakers
have often died in the midst of an impassioned burst of eloquence, or
then the deep emotion that produced it suddenly subsided. Largrave, the
young Parisian, died when he heard that the musical prize for which he
had competed was judged to another.
A physician, passing by a stone mason’s, bawled
out to him, “Good morning, Mr. W-; hard at work, I see; you finish
your gravestones as far as `In memory of,’ and then you wait, I
suppose, to see who wants a monument next?” – “Why,
yes,” replied the old man, resting for a moment on his mallet, “unless
somebody is ill, and you are attending him, and then I keep right on!”
A sick man was congratulated on his recovery by the assurance
that God had safely brought him through it. “Well,” replied
he, “may be he did, but I am certain the doctor will charge me for
it.”
DEAFNESS. – Ear-ache and deafness are sometimes
connected with chronic ulceration in the internal or external part of
the ear, when injection of warm water and soap is advisable. In this case,
there is sometimes a constant fetid discharge, for which the following
mixture is recommended: - Take of ox-gall
three drachms,
balsam
of Peru, one drachm; mix. A drop or two to be put into the ear with
a little cotton. When deafness arises from deficient secretion of wax,
take oil of turpentine, half a drachm; olive oil, two drachms; mix. Two
drops to be introduced into the ear at bedtime. When deafness arises from
a collection of too much wax. And pain is experienced on the drum of the
ear, inject warm water with a gutta-percha syringe made for the purpose,
and which can be procured at any respectable druggist’s.
“Doctor, I want to thank you for your splendid
medicine.”
“It helped you, did it?” asked the doctor, very much pleased.
“It helped me wonderfully.”
“How many bottles did you find it necessary to take?”
“Oh, I didn’t take any of it. My uncle took one bottle, and
I’m his sole heir.”
ONE-TENTH OF A SECOND FROM DEATH – It will be remembered
that the Rev.
Mr Sellwood, of the Episcopal Church, missionary in Oregon, was in
the Panama massacre and reported among the dead. In a letter just received
from him he says that he received four wounds, and is disfigured for life.
His narrow escape from death is thus described.
After I had recovered, and previous to leaving the Hospital,
one of my medical attendants said to me; “I look upon your escape
as a miracle; the ball passed so near the heart that it must have passed
at the instant of its contraction, for had it passed at its expansion,
you must have been killed, Just a one-tenth of a second made all the difference
in your case between life and death.”
RESTORATION OF DROWNED PERSONS. – All testimony
hitherto is decidedly in favour of Dr. Marshall Hail’s method, which
is a very simple one, for it needs no apparatus, all that is required
being that the body of the drowned person, be it man, woman, or child,
be placed upon its stomach, with the arms under its forehead, and then
turned from side to side, as one would roll a wine-cask or beer-cask in
process of cleansing, but of course more slowly and gently, and continuing
this rotary motion until full inflation of the lungs shall have taken
place. Those acquainted with the principles of natural philosophy, and
at the same time having any knowledge of the structure of the bony and
cartilaginous chest in which is contained the lungs, will at once perceive
the reasons on which is founded the advocacy of this simple method for
the recovery of persons apparently drowned.
THE THREE DUTIES. – “Reading,” says
Lord Bacon, “maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing
an exact man.” A young man who neglects reading is generally very
meagre; one who does not see much of his fellows is seldom a man of affairs;
and few who do not write much ever attain that precision of thought which
is essential to real power. Therefore, young man, read – confer
– write! Not one of the three duties can you safely neglect. –
Pictorial Pages.
USEFUL HINTS. – Never enter a sick room in a state
of perspiration, as, the moment you become cool, your pores absorb. Do
not approach contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between
the sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the thin vapour.
“Our idee is,” says a fellow that got a shrew
for a wife, that
“Woman’s love is like Scotch snuff;
We get one pinch, and that’s enough.”
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