Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 22, 1901, Page 7

‘ 5. + i 2 z z | a / DRINK WATER FOR STIFF NECK. “The simplest temporary cure for a stiff neck or any similar attack of the muscles anywhere, explained a well- Known physician to a Washington Star reporter, “is the very free drinking of water. A large glass full of water every half hour or even oftener, should be taken and the treatment kept up for at least half a day. This, it must be remembered, only cures the effects and unless it is kept up for a long time will hardly get at the cause, which is now generally understood to be an excess of uric acid in the blood. The cause of a very large amount of water has a tendency to dilute the blood and imcrease the supply of the lubricants about the sheaths of the muscles. It is the deficiency of those lubricants that produces what are known as stiff necks, stiff shoulders and the like. Nearly all of the so-called mineral wa- ters can be used and those that have lime, iron, potash, lithia or sodium should be preferred if they are handy, but if none of them are getable th? ordinary drinking waters, hydrant, well or spring, can be used. The point is to get an extraordinary amount, so as to dilute the blood as rapidly as possible. I have no objection to the use of lini- ments or external use of lubricants, but water can be depended upon if per- sisted in to do almost the same thing. Medical treatment, if people do not care to keep up the water treatment, is necessary, however, to keep from a recurrence of the attack. I really think the success of many of the fa- mous water cures is not the quality of the water used, but the quantity of it. None of the water cures would think of promising any cure or relief even in the use of three or four glasses of water in a day, but they have but little hesitancy in doing so if from thirty to forty glasses are used each day. For the same reason if a cure is expected from drinking water a very large quan- tity of it must be drunk. Six hours’ treatment, however, should cure the ordinary stiff neck.” AN OPTICAL ILLUSIGN. A Af) This diagram, taken from the New York Herald, is one of the best optical illusions that we have seen in a long time. Look at it in the ordinary way, and you cannot persuade yourself that the long up-and-down lines are parallel, but hold it on a level with your eye and look at it endwise and you will see that they are. SYMPTOMS OF CONSUMPTION. Now that the value of the open-air treatment of consumption has been demonstrated, the great importance of an early diagnosis of the disease is ev- ident. Unfortunately, it is by no means easy to recognize the disease in its incipiency, for the early symptoms are not distinctive, and the cause of the failing health is often not suspected until the disease has become firmly es- tablished. The symptoms calling at- tention especially to disease of the lungs are generally late in appearing, and the physician’s suspicions will usually have been aroused long before there is any severe cough or profuse expectoration. At first there is merely a falling off in heaith; the person is “a little below par,” and his friends remark that he is losing flesh. He is not actually ill, and his condition causes him little anxiety, being attrib- uted to a rush of work, or to worri- ment caused by a business hitch or some family trouble. But as time goes ot and the supposed cause of the trouble has been removed, the patient does not recover his strength; on the contrary, the gradual decline continues and a noticeable pallor appears. The lips are bluish, the eyes are abnor- mally white, the pinkish hue of the nails fade out, the mucous membrane of the mouth is pale—in medical lan- guage, the patient is anemic. This pallor is a suspicious sign; an another symptom of marked significence is a rapid pulse, one that beats continu- ously ninety or one hundred times a minute. At this time there is usually also, more or less fever, although it may be so slight as to be deteeted only by a frequent use of the thermometer. | A fourth symptom of importanee is in- creased perspiration, usually most marked in the first hours after mid- night—night sweats—but sometimes troublesome in the daytime as well. Cough during this period is as often absent as present, and in any case is seldom more than a nervous hacking; later it becomes more persistent, and ome expectoration appears. But by this time the phyisician can generally letect signs of lung trouble by an ex- amination cf:the ekest and tha discav- ery of tubercle bacilli when the ex- pectorated matter is studied under the microscope will remove all doubts as the nature of the malady. Of course one who has persistent anemia, a rapid pulse, night sweats, and perhaps fever, is not necessarily in the early stages of consumption, although there is ground for suspicion. Even if he is, however, there need be no excessive alarm, for the disease at this stage is almost positively curable, and its early detection is therefore a blessing. A SOLAR MOTOR. A practical demonstration of the pos- sibility of running a steam engine witb THE SOLAR MOTOR. heat derived directly from the sun- shine has been made at Los Angeles, Col. The rays of the sun are focused upon a boiler by means of a reflector 33 feet in diameter, composed of 1,788 small mirrors which are so adjusted that they all concentrate the sunlight upon a single central point. The heat developed is sufficient to melt copper, and a wooden pole thrust into the fo- cus bursts into flame at once. The steam from the suspended boiler is carried to the engine through a fiexi- ble tube. An energy of 15 horse-power is developed and used to pump water for irrigation. The reflector is mounted like an astronomical telescope and kept facing the sun by a driving clock. “ELECTRIC GHOSTS.” Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, in an address to electrical engineers in Birmingham on February 27th, thus defined an elec- tron, that new term of science which bas recently assumed so much import- ence: An atom is ordinarily associated with a charge, and force is required to separate the charge from the atom. The atom charge, when separated, is called an electron. In an electrolyte, i. e., a substance decomposed by an electric current, there is a bodily trans- fer of atoms with the charges; in a metallic conductor the charges are handed on, as electrons, from atom to atom. In the discharge through high- ly rarefied gases the electric current is in its most simple form, “for here there is a flow of electrons traveling by themselves, of disembodied charges or electric ghosts.” Electrons, Dr. Lodge added, are the fastest moving of all known terrrestrial objects, their speed being one-tenth that of light, which is 186,300 miles per second. EIGHT MILES UP. The exploration of the air by means of balloons carrying sclf-registering instruments is pursued with much vig- or in Europe. On February 7th there were simultaneous ascents from many points extending from France to Aus- tria and Russia. One unmanned bal- loon near Paris reached an elevation of 41,656 feet, not much short of eight miles. The temperature of the air at that height as shown by a self-regis- tering thermometer, was 67 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. Another bal- looon near Berlin found the same tem- perature at an elevation 10,000 feet less. These experiments are expected to throw much light on the laws of storms and of atmospheric circulation. NOTES ON SCIENCE. How the Speed of Ships Is Mencured. The speed of a ship is measured, by a log line—a cord knotted every fifty-one feet; 120 of these*léngths make a geo- graphical mile. At one end of the line is the log, a piece of flat, light wood, generally triangular, and weighted along one edge, so that when thrown overboard it floats vertically with its flat face to the ship, and theoretically stationary. The number of knots in the cord being equal to the number of half minutes in an hour, it follows that as many knots as pass over the stern every half minute, so many geo- graphical miles—or knots—are being made in an hour. Life Near the Equator The Reverend Father Grison of Stan- ley Falls, Africa, writes that Euro- peans have a very inaccurate idea of tropical temperatures. He passed eight years at the equator on the Pacific ecast, he says, and never saw the mer- eury above 85 degrees, while at Stanley Falls the maximum is 90 degrees, and the nights are deliciously cool. On the other hand, there are frequent temp- ests of indescribable violence, and Father Grison has counted 66 lightning flashes in one minute, the thunder be- ing continuous and has seen ten thun- derbolts strike within a radius of a few hundred meters in the space of two hours. Generosity makes many acquaint- ances, but it doesn’t know its friends until Adversity singles them out.—In- dianapolis News. Does Steriliaation Affect tho Digestibn- |! ity of Muk ? Since bacteriologists have taught us to look upon untreated cow's milk as a fruitful source of infection, es- pecially dangerous to infants, it has become the universal practice among physicians to insist upon its being ex- posed to the prolonged influence of heat—i. e., sterilized. The too exclu- sive use of milk thus prepared has been condemned by some authorities, so that the question may still be re- garded as open to discussion, sayS a british exchange. To determine the relative digestibility of fresh and ster- ilized milk, Jemma (La clinica medica Italiana) has undertaken a series of laboratory experiments, which show thai under the influence of pepsin and hydrochloric acid fresh milk is more readily digested than sterilized milk, while the reverse takes place when the two fluids are subjected to the action of pancreatin. When acted upon by artificial gastric juice, ster- ilized milk produces a greater quan- tity of peptones during the first four hours than fresh milk, but after that period the latter proves to be the more easily digestible. Practically the same results were obtained on using lab- ferment, pepsin, and hydrochloric acid. The action of labferment and pancrea- atin was more pronounced in the case of sterilized milk. In a second series of researches the author set himself the task of deter- mining the relative digestibility of sterilized milk, and of milk diluted with a 10 per cent solution of sugar of milk. In every instance the advan- tage was on the side of the diluted milk. The conclusions drawn by the author from these data are: 1. Milk submitted to the sterilizing action of heat shows no impairment of digesti- bility, which is superior to that of raw milk. 2. Milk that has been sterilized and diluted with a solution of sugar of milk is more easily digest- ed than pure sterilized milk. Alfalfa in the Hog Ration. At the Oklahoma station alfalfa pas- ture, with and without the addition of grain, was studied with a number of pigs. Other forage crops wer? also tested, including sugar beets, cow- peas, sorghum, sweet potatoes and pea- nuts. During part of the tests the feed- ing stuffs were cut and fed; during the remainder of the time they were harvested by the pigs. These tests led to the following general con- clusions: Alfalfa is excellent as pas- ture for hogs. Pigs will make some gain with no other food, excellent gains when fed grain on the alfalfa. Continuous pasturing will injure and may destroy the alfalfa. With rare ex- ceptions, alfalfa should not be pastured the year it is sown. Sorghum also makes a fair pasture for hogs. Sow- ing cow-peas, planting - peanuts or sweet potatoes, and allowing hogs to harvest the crop, giving them some grain in addition, reduces the cost of -pork production. Sugar beets are much relished by any class of stock. The greater cost of growing them as com- pared with other crops makes it doubt- ful if they are an economical crop when ised in large quantities. Clean Milking Important. One of the things “worth doing well” is milking the cows. Why a cow ought to be milked clean every time is too old a story and has too many arguments to back it up to make a _ lecture necessary every time it is mentioned. But its im- portance cannot be brought out too frequently, says Jersey Bulletin. It looks like a little thing to some men to slight a cow because she is a “tegious” milker; and it may be more convenient to leave a quart of strip- pings in the udder than to put up with the side-stepping and tail-swinging agitation of a “nervous critter”; but the owner of a good cow might bet- ter have a “hand” who will steal from him than one who doesn’t milk the cows clean. He not only loses much of the richest milk—that is perhaps the least of the objections to such neglect—but the practice of leaving milk in the udder has a detericrating influence on the capacity of the cow. The longer it goes on, the less milk she gives. And the small yield soon becomes chronic, Tonds As Medicine, Out of the queer use of a common creature regarded as most potent in old-time medicine there came the most surprising and nearly the most import- ant of inventions. Nearly every school boy knows that a toad can cause warts or make the cow give bloody mi!k, but not everybody knows that toads are also powerfully medicinal. It is a fact. Martin Luther says so. These are his very words: “Experience has proved the toad to be endowed with valuable qualities. If you run a stick through three toads, and, after having’ dried them in the sun, apply them to any pestilent humor, they draw out the poi- son, and the malady will disappear.” | Pope Adrian always carried a bag about his neck containing dried toad. pearl, coral, gum, tragacanth, smaragd and other articles of junk. It did him a power of good he said. It was al! that kept him up. And lest you think that they only did that hundreds of years ago, I want to say here that when my father was a boy and suf- fered from quinsy they used to tie live frogs about his throat. The frogs nearly clawed the hide off. They did not cure the quinsy, but that’s a de- tail—Harvey Sutherland in Ainslee’s Ao Army Corps Commander. General Sakharoff, the Russian com- mander of the new Manchurian army corps, is a brother of the chief of the Russian general staff, and himself com- manded the frontier corps. General Gerngross, who has been commander of the protective force in-Manchuria, . has been appointed his assistant. The Wreng Way. “Do you not wish now,” inquired the the prison visitor, “that you had fol dowed the straight and narrow path?” “Dat's de one I did foller,” replied Jimmy Dores. “If I'd only dodgeed in- ter dat crooked alley, dey’d never a’ ketched me.”—Philadelphia Press. ‘What Do the Children Drink? Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the lace of coffee. The more Grain-O you give he children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of ure grains, and when properly prepared Fastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about 3¢ as much. All grocers sell bc and 25c. The Recipe for Jokes. She—How are the newspaper jokes constructed? He—You take any question and an- wer, stick an exclamation point at the end of every sentence, end there you are. She—-What’s the exclamation point for? He—That’s the poirt of the joke. Ladies C: ‘Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All;druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. ¥. An Effective Advertis>ment. All successful business men agree that good advertising pays. Good ad- vertising means interesting announce- ments placed in newspapers which reach a large proportion of the people. Probably most experienced advertis- ers would say that to make the merits of a single commodity the feature of an “ad” is the most direct and effect- | tive way of getting people’s attention fixed on an establishment.—Philadel- phia Record. Cuckoo Eggs, Willie had been told that when a hen is heard cackling around it is a pretty sure sign she has laid an egg. One day he ran to his mother in an excited manner and exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, I just heard the cuckoo in the clock make a noise. I'll go down and see if she’s laid an egg.’"—Yonkers Statesman. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued to Northwes Northwestern Inventors. Edwin Carlson, Minneapolis, Minn., combination square; Jacob P. Larson, Nelson, Minn., vehicle spring; Will- iam L. Nottingham, Ft. Benton, Mont., non-refillable bottle; James L. Record, Minneapolis, Minn., adjustable support for journal boxes; Edwin A. Sperry, Biwabik, Minn., concentrator. Lothrop & Johnson, patent attorneys, 911 & $12 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. Might Have Done Worse. She—I think the doctor is just as mean as he can be! He—What’s he done? “Vaccinated me on the right arm, and I can’t use it at all.” “It might be worse.” “TI can't see how.” “He might have vaccinated you on the tongue.”—Yonkers Statesman. Money to loan at low rates on farm pro- rty. List your surplus money with me. pay 41¢ to 5 per cent. interest on sums of 8100 and up. orthwestern farms aud city ropert: ought and sold. References. Elwyn ¥. Larson, Durand, Wisconsin. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ‘When a woman's teeth chatter they ururp her tongue’s prerogative. A Ferry Tail. On the boat between Locust Point and Fells Point he found a large roll of bills. “Ah!” he smiled, “my good ferry has arrived at last!”—Baltimore American. Are You Using Afien’s Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and bunions. Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. The Iceman, “Certainly nobody can deny that giv- ing a smaller piece of ice than is just at times is a fault of some icemen.” “Unquestionably.” “And doesn’t it make the fault great- er when they lay it at other people’s doors?”’—Philadelphia Times. A Bonanza. “Here’s a distinguished scientist who says that, after all, there’s nothing in germs.” “Nothing in germs? Nonsense! Why, look how much the doctors have made out of them.”—Detroit Free Press. Permanently Cured. Nonts or nervousness after Orr cay's ‘ure of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, @ni for FREE 82.00 trial bottle and treatise, Te. R. H. Kian, 7.td., 931 Arch 8t., Philadelphia, Pa. Value of a Musical Ear. The late Sir Frederick Gore-Ouseley, professor of music at Oxférd, was going to call on a friend in London, and asked ja fellow-musician the number In which he lived in a certain strueet. “I don’t know his number,” answered the other; “but the note on his door- scraper is C sharp.” Sir Frederick went off, contentedly kicking the door- scrapers until he came to the right one, when he rang the bell and went in.— Argonaut. Pain, suffering, Wizard Oil could not live together, so pain and suffering | moved out. Ask your druggist about it. If They Had Known. Waggs—Boston women who about all over the country. Daggs—Yes; I'll bet if the Puritans had foreseen it they wouldn’t have landed in Massachusetts.—Ohio State Journal. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75¢. In Smokiest Chicago. “The bridegroom was late in coming to the wedding, wasn’t he?” “Yes; he had allowed only an hour for getting his hands thoroughly clan.” Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and,the most delivate stomach receives it without dis- tress. 3¢ the price of coffee. 15c and 25 cts, per package. Sold by all grocv's. He Certainly Got Away. “Yes; he escaped on a technicali- ty.” “I understood it was a handcar,”— Tam sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THos. ROBBINS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Fab. 17, 1900. Boas and scarfs of many descriptions will be worn during the spring and far into the summer. ‘Mrs, Winsiow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, sottens the gums, reduces te Gammation, alays puin.cures wind colic. 25¢@ bottler Almost anybody can stand adversity— when they have to—but few are those who can endure prosperity. a oo Stern Professor (to nervous student tm homeopathy—On the principle, then, of like cures like, what would you order im a case of delirium tremens? “Wouldn't some form of snakeroot fill the bill?”—Philadelphia Times. tsmapat Wear Out Shoes aia 2S. Itea Si roan Ye creel as OY ‘Bl CBX ae ride | cross-saddle fashion are being talked | SPEED! A high-grade tire, to be worthy of its name, should possess four virtues — speed, easy riding qualities, ability to wear, ease of repair, G & J Tires have all these virtues.” When punctured, take off the outer cover, re- | ff pair the inner tube and go on your way in a jiffy. So simple a child can do it. Catalogue free. Gé&J TIRE COMPANY, | Indianapolis, Ind. IN 3 OR 4 YEARS. 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It’s the unclean places that breed infectious epidemics, and it’s the unclean body—unclean in- side—that “‘catches” the disease. person whose stomach and bowels are kept clean and whose liver is live- low fever, or any other of the dread- ful diseases that desolate our beautiful outside are filthiest inside, and they the infections, but endanger the li of all their friends and relatives. There’s only one certain er of keeping clean inside so as to prevent disease and that is to take Perfect disinfectant and bowel strengtheners. All diseases are A pure, is safe against yel- of the cleanest people who not only “catch” Ss. BY SOLD IN BULK. ‘an; ig pbsolute proof Hite