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CHINESE DOCTORS. ;
The Medicines That Are Used by the Ce- lestial Medicine Men.
The ways of the Cl}
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meth master by whom he has been taught is above all things con servative. With a very grave face, his eyes pr tected by large sp. ctacles of thick glass, t) physician feels the pulse of the patient and ieake him show his tongue. Next he examines his eves
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to which will help |} out in his diag nosis. Then he writes his prescription on g piece of rice paper and hands it to his pupil, who proceeds to compound it. It ghould be observed that Chinese doctors be and sel) their remedies. |
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both prescribe Generally the prescription is made from the directions in some book, which are simply rele rred to by name or number. The puj il goes to the book for directions.
The seeds, herbs, leaves and stems, the esences of which are to be combined to form “the remedy, are generally weighed out or measured and given to the patients with directions to boil them at home with a prescribed quantity of drinking water to a measure which is exactly indicated. “Put all these plants into an carthenware pot with a large glass of water and boil them over a bright fire down to a teacup- ful. Then strain carefully and drink hot.’ The remedies ere al] taken in bed, and rest or sleep, if possible, is recom- mended. The potions as administered have very powerful effects.
Chinese doctors have various devices to maxe their products attractive. They have luxurious shops and modify with liquorice and other substances their vilely tasting pills. These pills ere incloved in capsules of wax as large as pigeons’ ees, which preserve the compound from coupact with theair. and are brokezm when the remedy is taken. One of their remedies is the dau-phu-y, a medicinal oil which pro- duces exccllent effects in headache and generally in cases of brain weariness of everykind. Itis rubbed on the temples and is inhaled by strong breathing after having been rubbed upon the nostrils. The basis of the preparation is camphor. —New York Ledger.
Heroism of the Police.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt writes an arti- tle on“'The Roll of Honor of the New York Police’ for The Century. Mr. Roosevelt says:
I doubt if the average citizen, especially the average stay at home citizen, realizes how often the man of the night stick is called upon to display qualities which in a soldier would be called heroic. His feats insaving life or im arresting dangerous ‘criminals, alone and at night, attract no special attention when mentioned in the hewspapers, but they often imply just as much courage as those of the man who captures an enemy's flag in battle or plants his own flag on a hostile parapet: The men of the New York police force repre- sent all the different crecds and different race origins that go to the make up of our stock, but they all become good Ameri- caus who pay no heed to differences of creed and race, for otherwise they would be useless. The police oceupy positions of great importance. They not merely pre- “rve order, the first essential of both lib- erty and civilization, but to a large por- tion of our population they stand as the émbodiment as well as the representative of the law of the land. To the average dweller in a tenement house district, espe elally if born abroad, the policeman is in his own person all that there is of govern- ment. He is judge, executive and legisla- tare, constitution and town meeting. His power and influence are great. For any vice or shortcoming he should be sternly punished, but for gallantry and good con- duet he should receive prompt amd gener- 0US Tecogn ition.
Heredity of Acquired Characteristics. I have found in my study of éamels, wever, an example perhaps still more Curious and significant. It is known that, With the exception of its stature, the camel is absolutely a llama, its blood globules being ellipitical, its teeth reptilian in orm, ite rudimentary third and fifth toes Permanent. It possesses, further, that Mytterious pouch of the stomach for the sorsve of fluids, the same kind of callosity on breast bone and knees, acquired by th» “mi through kneeling to receive loads. But the camel differs strikingly from th» lama in that it possesses the hump, the°* ¥ mass, with a special development o/ *me of the spinal processes. Fora lon: time I could not explain this hump. One ¥, however, » poor porter having a ‘omplaint in his chest caiue to consult me, 40d on examination I found, half way n his back, precisely where he was Wont to rest his burdens, a tumor larger 4... Man's fist, formed almost wholly of Mlpore tissue. It suddenly eecurred to me that this lump—which not only caused porter no inconvenience, but even aid- td him in his work—might perhaps serve be & clew to my mystery of the camel's . * * * [succeeded in examining “ porters of various occupations, and. to Y Great joy, I was able to find four more
*Xamples of this fatty tumor.
ce ‘was of even greater value in our quiry was the fact that 50 per cent of the rters examined, although having no real ump, yet presented an unusal protz.bez-
in ancient. In h : . ti ctor 7 tly follows the |
8Mce of the 8 : pinal processes.—Professor Cesare Lombroso in Forum.
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*“You have scarcely spoken to me at all this evening,’’ she said in tones of re- proach.
‘*J—I beg your pardon,’’ her husband returned apologetically. ‘‘I was just try- ing to think of something to say.’’
‘‘Is there anything on your mind?’
**Yes; to tell you the truth, there is.’’
**Can’t I help you in some way?’’
“You might if I could suggest it with- out your becoming angry.”’
‘Tell me all about it. It is my duty to sympathize with you, you know.’’
**On my birthday anniversary you gave me a fountain pen.”’
‘Yes. And now youare going to say that it makes a horrid muss and that you don’t want to write with it.’’
“I’m not going to say anything of the kind,’’ he replied stoutly. ‘‘lam going to write with that pen every day of my life, but there is one little favor that I would like to ask.’’
‘*What is it?’’
‘*Please make me asuit of overalls te go with it.’’—Washington Star.
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The smallest book in the world, is not much larger than a man’s thumb nail. It Was made in Italy by a firm of Padua publishers, the Salmin Brothers. It is four-tenths of an inch high and about ao quarter of an inch wide. The voluine contains 208 pages, each having 9 lines and from 95 to 100 letters. The text is an wnpubiished letter written by the famous inventor of the pendulum clock to Mme. Christine of Lorraine in the year 1615. The next smallest book is issued by the
firm. It is am edition of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’’ being a little more than an inch high, a little less than an inch wide, with type so small that it takes @ microscope to read the letters.—Chicago Record. ?
A Peculiariy Silly Custom,
The Rev. W. Bingley, in his ‘‘Customs of the Welsh,’’ states that formerly it was usual in some parts of north Wales when- ever the name of the devil occurred for the congregation to spit on the floor, and when the name of Judas was mentioned to express their abhorrence of him by striking their breasts. —South Wales News.
A Successful Operation. “Did you get back that $5 goldpisce your baby swallowed?’ ‘‘No The doctor took it for his fee.”"— Fliegende Blatter.
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A handsome costume for a young la- dy is made of crepe surfaced goods. The skirt is trimmed with seven bands of bias velvet.
A novelty costume has a skirt made of alternate breadths of crape and sil‘. The crape is closely tucked, while the silk is shirred.
The conservative woman clings to the plain, untrimmed sunshade, but the material is of thé very best, and the workmanship must be faultless if these plain models are to be approved.
There is a bolero jacket of velvet, and the shoulders are covered by a little velvet cape with silk ruffies. Ruffles lined with crinoline are set up around the back of the neck around the outside of the dresa.
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THE SUNDIAL,
Shadow of the dial plate, deigneth scarce to
stir. | Faster, time! Ah, why so slow, while I wait for her? Sunlicht on the dial plate. How the moi race! Slower, time! Ah, why so fast while | sce
her face?
Darkness on the dial plate when the red sun sets. Time, what need of you at all, since my love forgets? —In John-a-Dreais.
THE READY REASONING BOY. fome Sweet Samples of the Satisfaction He Gives.
He was in his mother’s room the other day when she was showing a friend some hardsorae napery that her own maternal relative had given heron her marriage, He was impressed by the conversation and laid it by for future reference. That even- ing there were guests ut dinner, and for a long while he was deeply interested in a study of his own domestic economy, with special reference to whether turkey was a good single standard for the human circu- lation, and concluding that it was en- deavored to get a monopoly. Later on he began to regard the festive board with an interest that was not strictly dietary, and iinally electrified the company by the in- quiry:
‘‘Mamma, is this the tablecloth you were married in?’’
Grandpa came to call not long ago, and papa had him upin the smoking room, discussing the subject of masculine head- gear.
“Run down stairs, son, and get my new derby. It’s hanging in the hall,’’ said papa.
The messenger was some time away, and when he returned with the hat he was carrying it on the end of a cane.
The owner took it off and began to ex- patiate on its beauties:
**Now, here is a latest shape, and I got it fora song. You ought to wear a derby, father. It’s more comfortable than a bea- ver and more stylish.’’
The old gentleman secretly resented these remarks, but said nothing. The younger gentleman placed the model shape on achair and forgot all about it. Ten minutes later he calmly sat on that stylish hat and remodeled it so that its maker wou'd have denied it.
Grandpa was tickied almost to death. ‘*Best have a beaver, after all, my boy,’’ he said. ‘‘A beaver’s so big you are pretty safe not to sit down on it.”’
When grandpa went to the hatrack to get the immaculate beaver, he was smitten with horror. A catastrophe of some kind had occurred, and it was evident that the hat had been involved. A commitice of investigation at once interviewed the smal! boy. He explained matters with charm- ing candor. ‘‘Why, you see, papa,”’ said he, ‘‘I had to stand on grandpa’s hat to reach yours; it hung so high up.’’—Wash- ington Post.
Bankoed.
“It was on one of my early trips,’’ said the conductor. ‘A well dressed man got on my car, and when I went to him for his fare he handed me a $5 bill. I took the bill and examined it pretty close, as I al- ways do with big bills. I didn’t have any too much change, so I held the bill in my hand and said, ‘Haven’t you anything smaller?’ The man said ‘I don’t think so,’ but he took the bill and crumpled it up in ais hand while he searched through his pockets for smaller money. Then he shook his head and handed back the crum- pled bill. I didn’t look at it again, but stuck it in my pocket and counted out $4.95 change. Well, when I counted my money at the end of the run I found my- self just $4 short. Then I tumbled to the game. The sharper had cleverly changed the fiver for a one while he was looking through his pockets, and I simply bit like a sucker. But, say, you can bet 1 won't bite again. ’’—Philadelphia Record.
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Heavy Death Rate In Cities.
The city huving the greatest deat): rate in the world is Reims, Germany. thv pre- portion being 28.62 per 1,000 in each year. Dublin follows with 27.05 and New York with 26.47.
Qe dyspeptic carries a dreadful loud on his back. It eeeme as if he were rvally made upof two men. One of them ambitious, brainy and energetic; the other sick, listless, peevish and without force. The weak man weighs the other one down. The dyspeptic may be able to do pretty good work one day, and the next day because of some little indiscretion in eating he may be able todo nothing at all. Most cases of dyspepsia start with conetipation. Constipation is the cause of nine-tew hs of all buman sickness, Some of its syin pioms are sick and bilious headache, dizz nese. sour stomach, loss of appetite, foul breath, windy belchings, heartburn, paiu and distress after eating. All these are indica- tive of derangements ct the liver, stomach and bowels, and all are ceused by «onsti- pation. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pell-ts are the quickest, easiest and most certain cure for this condition. They are not vivient in action.
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The official returns of the French cus- toms house show that in the past ten months French imports bave ivereased 76,184,000 francs snd that the exports bave increased 194,038,000 francs com- pared with the same period of 1896.
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