Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — CAB-SICKNESS. [ARTICLE]

CAB-SICKNESS.

A Piec« “ Work. I.ike « Chsrltl" in Preventing It. Many persons, especially ladies, are great sufferers from that form of nausea and headache known as “ car-sickness. A journey by rail has for them all the discomfort and suffering that an ocean voyage has to the majority of travelers. The effects of the motion of the car range from a mild disturbance of the stomach and accompanying headache to “deathly sickness,’’with intense nanseu and complete prostration, according to the condition and sensativeness of tho victim. In its lightest form the sensation is sufficiently unpleasant to make travel by rail thoroughly disagreeable ;, in its worst, and by no means uncommon type, it^invests this necessary and convenient method of journeying with dread and despair. A simple and harmless preventive of car-sickness has recently come to the knowledge of the writer, under circumstances that leave no doubt of its efficacy with some persons ; and if the device' will work equally well in other oases, a knowledge of it ought certainly to bo spread abroad. It is at least worth a trial by all who suffer this inconvenience in traveling. A lady who had occasion to take a short trip on the Lowell road —and she never travels by rail for pleasure—was, as is usual with her, as thoroughly siok as ever a landsman is on tho “heaving deep,” by the time she had ridden a dozen miles. The conductor of the palace car, who was apparently familiar with such cases, told the sufferer’s companion that a sheet of writing paper, worn next to the person, directly over the chest, was a sure preventive of the trouble in nine cases out of ten. He had recommended it to hundreds of travelers and rarely knew it to fail. The prescription seemed very like n “ charm,” a horse chestnut carried in the pocket to ward off rheumatism, or a red string around the neck to prevent bleeding at the nose. But it was simple, and could at least do no harm. For the return trip a sheet of common writing note paper was fastened inside the clothing, as directed. Result—a perfectly comfortable journey, without a hint of the old sickness that had f< >r years made travel by rail a terror. It was so like a superstition, or a happy accident, however, that the lady would not accept it as real until subjected to a more severe test. This camo in a day journey to New York, and that hardest trial of all—a night trip in the “alleged” sleeping.car. Both, wore taken in triumph. The “charm” worked. And the lady writes : “ The day journey was a perpetual wonder and delight tome. I could stop and read, and look at the landscape through which wo whirled, and do as other people do. And still I didn’t feel ready to confess to a cure until I had tried the sleeping-car, which has always been a horror to me. But even here the ‘ spell’ worked. I ate a hearty supper in the dining-car-*-add kept it 1 Slept soundly all night, got up as comfortably, and dressed with as level a head and as steady a hand ns though I had been in my own room. Read until breakfast time—a thing I have never done on the cars—and was hungry for my morning meal. It is really wonderful, almost too good to be real. For the first time in my life I have experienced the pleasure of traveling. I wish that conductor to be especially thanked.”— New York Daily Times.

The Rapid Telegraph. The capacity of a single line of telegraph wire has always been limited by the quickness of the operator. The electricity passes from end to end of the longest line without appreciable loss of time. A sender of average ability can transmit twenty-five words a minute, or fifty messages an hour. This being the limit of a single wire, many lines have become necessary between large cities, to provide for the constant increase in pie use of the telegraph by all classes. A few years ago, Mr. Etlison discovered and applied the quadniplex system. By this invention, four messages can be sent at one time over the same., wire, two each way. As its name implies, it increased the carrying capacity of a wire four-fold. But the new system of the Rapid Telegraph Company is even more wonderful. By this method the messages are transferred to a paper-tape which is perforated by a machine with a key-board, operated like a type-writer. Many persons are kept busy at these machines preparing these messages. When the tape is reaily it is wound on a wheel. Now, instead of the operator making each letter by successive clicks of the telegraph key, he /imply turns the wheel, and steel points, like the nibs of a pen, trace their way over the perforated tape, and wherever there are holes the circuit is completed and the electric current reports at the other end of the line, in dots or dashes, long or short, as the perforation may be. The messages are then translated from the telegraphic code and printed in full by the aid of the type-writer, ready for delivery. By this invention, the capacity of a wire is increased thirty-fold. In a minute 1,000 words may be sent, involving 500 pulsations a second of the electric current. All these improvements are in the direction of cheap and efficient telegraphy.

Our Bad Manners. We are endeavoring to lift the people to the plane of intelligence and material comfort, and even luxury, in the matter of education, food, apparel and dwellings. While doing this we are. perhaps, neglecting our manners and getting to be somewhat too brusque and careless of each other’s feelings. Every age, even the worst, has had its good point, its redeeming feature, which has been its reason for being what it was. The comedies of Shakespeare, which are full of a delicate social aroma that is exhaled by its charming heroines, and is subtle and fragrant as the odor of “a bank of violets,” show that the feudal times, bad and dark as they were in mosts respects, had at least a commodity of good manners in their upper circles which are worthy even •f our imitation.— -Boston Herald.

Borrowing and loaning stocks—When a party has sold stock short and not bought it in by the time delivery must be made, he “borrows” the stock for the purpose of making a delivery, paying the owner the market price at the time, and agreeing to return it at the same price on demand or at a fixed time, the lender of the stock paying the borrower an agreed rate of interest on the money, or the borrower paying the lender an agreed premium for the use of the ■took, as the case may be.

Many a man who thinks himself a great gun is nothing mor® than a big