Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — Page 7

IT’S ONLY A LITTLE NEEDLE

But Oh! How Happy It Makes Morphine i lend a Thirty thousand a year would be a low estimate of the number of hypodermic syringes manufactured and sold in New York to supply the demands of the morphine fiends. The sale of these syringes is not now confined to drag stores and shops for the sale of surgical instruments, as was the case formerly. They can now be purchased freely stores, dry goods stores where übina and other household articles are kept, house furnishing stores and, in fact, in nearly every kind of store patronized by women. There is no law against their free sale. There is a law against the sale of morphine, yet there is little difficulty in purchasing all that one requires. So prevalent has become this habit of indulgence in morphine by hypodermic injection, that a “morphine set" or “lay out" has been invented. When closed it looks like a morocco card case or a nickel match box, or some innocent thing of that kind. Touch the spring and the lid flies open and you have your syringe, a needle or two, a couple of small vials containing the solution, and there you are with the means to lift you to the seventh heaven of delight for the time being, but only to drop to the seventh circle of hell in a l.ttle while unless you lepeat the dose. The needle is mo>t minute, being only a little larger than the proboscis of a fly, so delicate that fluids thin as water can barely pas 3 through, and very slowly. This, in the hands of a person of ordinary skill, can be passed through the coats of the skin into the cellular tissue without any pain whatever, In preparing the morphia in liquid form for use by this needle, the solution is filtered to reduce it to the flowing fineness required to pass through. This will carry a solution of 20 grains of the sulphate of morphia to one ounce of hot water, which solution will keep for several days or even weeks. Some of these cases are got up in very expensive style, gold or silver mounted and jeweled, but the ordinary ones do not cost more than $lO. Women are fondest of using morphine by hypodermic injection. Taking the drug by mouth is disagreeable, and women’s stomachs are often unable to stand it, They consequently take It by injection. Some women have become so expert that they ctn administer an injection to themselves m public places, such as theatres and churches. A lady sitting down can drop her programme or prayerbook and while stooping on the pretense solely to pick it up can swiftly run the needle, previously charged and prepared, into the muscular part of the limb. The lower limbs are selected by them on which to operate, punctures on the arms spoiling the beauty of these parts on occasions of full dress.

Skeletons Resurrected.

A correspondent .gives a thrilling account of the method of exhibiting disinterred corpses in vogue at the Cemetery of the Capneini at Palermo. The earth there—powdered tuff rock—has the property of so hastening decomposition that within a year bodies are reduced to skin and bones, somewhat like mummies. Then they are clothed and displayed in rows by the “piety" of suiviving* kindred. The visitor descends a flight of stairs into a well-lit corridor. Corpses stand on either Bide of the passage, brushing your sleeve ns you walk. Some keep their coffins, but a glazed or wired side or lid shows you another version of the same grim spectacle. Few of the men are clothed in anything but the monk’s uniform. The biretti of the priests are sometimes tilted tipsily over the noseless faces; sometimes jauntily over the eyeless eye orbits. Some bodies have been regularly embalmed. These poor shades are ticketed, like the blind beggars who parade the streets of London, and their names and death dates figure on their placards. Undoubtedly the ugliest of the sights is the ladies’ gallery. Corpse worship here has prompted rreaks of burlesque millinery, sucii as the trimming of vacant skulls with deep frills of lace. One poor shade lay in purple silk. A young lady’s mummy was adorned with a silver crown, fantastic shoes, open-work stockings and white kid gloves. Imagine coming to pay your devoirs to the ladies with whom you used to dance, to your hostess of former years, to the members of your family, to the wife of your bosom, and being received by these phantoms of grizzly bone! These bedizened skeletons! These rag-and-bone things aping humanity! It is too horrible!

Barnum’s Unique Gorilla.

Col. Hager, who is a boss side-show-man and a collector of oddities, curiosities, and freaks, says: “There is no live gorilla in the United States, and there never was one. Any showman who says to the contrary tells what he knows to be false. In the first place, it is almost impossible to capture a live gorilla. In the next place, if one were captured I doubt if he could live in this country. The gorilla has had a good deal of fun poked at him, but he has the most delicate constitution of anything that crawls, walks, flies, or swims.’' “Didn’t Barnum onee advertise that be had one?” was asked. “Yes, but he got fooled on it. He had offered a large amount of money for a live gorilla, and his aeents scoured gorilla land to get one. Soineuody fihally caught what he thought was a gorilla and shipped it to Barnum in New York. The day the animal arrived and was on exhibition the fact was placarded all over the city. There was an old man in town who had lived many years in the-country where the go i ill a exists. He went in to seo the new arrival, and, after looking at it, said to Mr. Barnum: “That’s no gorilla. No gorilla has a tail." “ ‘But,’ said the quick-witted showman, ‘ this gorilla has a tail, and it is the only one that ever was known to have ODe ’ "However, that didn’t make the animal a gorilla, just the same, for there never was a live gorilla in this country.*— Chicago Tribune. Anecdote About a Famous Bandit. It seems that a noted bandit, Cortina, has been the terror of Northern Mexico for years. Failing to subdue him, the Mexican Government made him a Major General of the army, and put him in charge of the Rio Grande border. He was furnished with a fnll staff and headquarters force, and started out in fnll en. jo/coeut of hie dignity. *At the end of

the first month of his service his military secretary brought the pay-roll for hit approval. It was headed by the name of Major General Cortina, and continued with the names and pay of the other members of his military family, and ending up with the total for the entire amount to be so disbursed. Cortina examined the document carefully and laboriously. But, reaching the end, he burst into an expression of wrath, drew his revolver, and held it at the terrified secretary's head, shrieking with rage: “Villain! What is this? Who is this Total that receives more than Cortina?*

He Was Surprised.

The errors of the telegraph will probably continue as long as the earth stands, since even should the dot and dash alphabet be done away with, which there seems no immediate prospect that it will be, the haste in which messages are usually despatched, must still prove a fertile source of mistakes. A gentleman who had been absent from Boston on an errand connected with the visit of some one cf the innumerable companies of folks of all sorts who have been entertained in this town within the past few years had occasion to telegraph home for a carriage to meet him on his arrival, says the Boston Courier. He accordingly sent a dispatch; which, when it left his hand, read: “Send hacks to B. A A. Station, six thirty; five persons.” But alas! for the uncertainty of all things earthly! When the dispatch was put into the hands of the stable-keeper in Boston, to whom it was sent, it read: “Send haoks to B. & A. Station, six. Thirty-five persons.” The result is easily to be foreseen. When the gentleman came out of the station and asked for his carriage, his eye was met with a long line of hacks stretching off into the dim distance of the deepenine twiligfit of the winter evening, and to his dismay he was informed that they were all at his order. It was in vain he protested that he did not wish them; it was with the utmost difficulty that he escaped having to ride home in the whole collection of carriages; while the difficulty over the bill afterward, with the stable-keeper and the telegraph company, might furnish material for a small volume.

The Rich Statesman and the Honest Jeweler.

Senator Far well had a little joke put on him not long ago, and though it cost him a $2 bill, he smiled grimly and took it all in good part. The Senator has for years employed a certain jeweler to clean and repair his watch when it needs attention. His name is Hoefner, and the Senator has the fullest confidence in him. The Senator some tame ago took his watch to Hoefner and was told to leave it for a few days. He did so, and when he went for it and asked the expense he was told the bill was $5. He paid it, and about a month later he thought there was something wrong with it rgain. Again he took it to the artist and left it. When he called for it the watohmakor told him the expense this time was $2. “How is that?” queried the Senator. “You charged me $5 before and only $2 now; you probably struck me for *s3 too much last time, didn’t you?” ‘T3h, no.” said Hoefner; “there was a difference in the jobs. The watoh only needed winding this time.” —Chicago Herald.

American Politeness.

In America politeness goes, as it should, before all else. One rule can be laid down for general observance where a person’s ideas of the proper thing to do are unsettled—let him make himself at home. He should do so in a manner to create some respect for home, unlike a young man who called at the office of a noted Philadelphian, somewhat noted for his straightforward utterances. “Make yourself at home for a few minutes,” said the owner of the office to his visitor. The young man having seated himself somewhat comfortably, but mistaking a table fora footstool, responded, cheerily: “I always make myself at home.” “Then I pity the people at home,” was the quick response. Twenty-three years ago, Joseph Hamilton and Miss Virginia Hickman, both of Bath County, Maine, were engaged to be married, out they had a lovers’ quarrel and Mr. Hamilton left for California, where he settled in San Diego County. By hard work he became a prosperous man. About a month a?o he returned to his old home near Millborough Springs, and in forty-eight hours after hie arrival married Miss Hickman, who had remained faithful to her first and only love. The bride is a first cousin of the celebrated Bishop William Taylor, a native of Rockbridge, and for many years past Bishop of Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton will spend the next two months visiting rel atives, and in September will leave f-or their California home.

Shamoy or wash -leather, properly ■chamois leather, is so called because originally and when of -the best quality it was made from'the chamois or wild goat inhabiting the Alps and Pyrenees. It is mow made chiefly from the skin of -deer, goals, f-nd sheep. It is essentially distinguished from other kinds of leather in being dressed in oil without salt, alum, or tam, and in the -grain being taken off. The skins are brought to a state of pelt by 1 1 ming and washing. The buff color is imparted by dipping into gamboge, not to bat to dye them. Cashs of lead poiaondpg among the Jacquard weavers in a 'Jswiss factory were traced' to the dost frtfm leaden weights -which arc use d by’the weavers to carry the threads of their warp. After tho varnish has been rubbed off from tho weights the lead begins to -wear away and fails in fine particles among the dnst on the floor. In some caee« the dust was as inkeh as 56.86 per cent, lead, and even when the utmost care had been taken 9 or 10 per cent: of the lead had been found in it ■ At the convief camp on the Scuffle plantation, Florida, a number of the conviets were leaning against a wire fence when the lightning struek the fence, killing one of them instantly and stnnning several others very severely. The harvest of cereals in Oregon and Washington will be the heavest ever known. There will be magnificent crops of fruit. A SIO,OOO joss house vas dedicated at San Jose, CaL, recently.

Getting Even with a Tramp.

There is a boy who makes Park place his begging headquarters on every Sunday. Many months ago the writer was weak enough to give him a small sum of money, ana ever since has been pestered by the same old tale of hunger and the necessary want of three cents to make up the five. In a happy moment he thought of a good pl*n to rid himself of the nuisance, aud one Monday a solid sandwich was bought for five cents, and carefully stored away. By Sunday the bread was beautifully hard* and the meat not too fresh. It was carefully wrapped up in paper. At Park place the boy was on hand with the usual pitiful tale. “I thought of you this morning,” said the reporter, and handed him the paper packet, saying, “Here’s a sandwich for you.” It was not what the beggar wanted, so he only gave vent to a surly “thanks." About an hour later the reporter had to bo down Park place again, and he saw his tormentor on the sidewalk. The tramp saw him also, And slunk across the street, and the look on his face was as malignant as it could posßibly be.— New York Tribune.

A Tried Remedy for Biliousness.

Those who suffer from disorder or inaction of the liver will never get the upper hand of the unruly organ so long as they usosuch irrational remedies as blue pills, calomel, and podophyllin. But from the tried and popular medicine, Hostetler's Stomach Bittsrs, they may expect relief with a certainty of obtaining it. The influence of the Bitters upon the great biliary gland is direct, powerful and speedily felt. The relief afforded is not spasmodic, but complete and permanent. The sallowness of the skin, funed appearance of the tongue, indigestion, costiveness, headache, nausea, palua through the right fide and shoulder, In fact every accompaniment of the obstinate complaint,are entirely and promptly removed by a course of this Inestimable medicine, in behalf of which testimony is constantly emanating from ever quarter, andfroin all classes of society.

Much Interested In Him.

Mother—Where have you been, Johnny ? Johnny—Down by th’ ole mill, watchin’ a man paint a picture. Mother—Didn’t you bother him? Johnny—Naw! He seemed to be real interested in me. Mother—What did he say? Johnny—He asked me if I didn’t think ’twas most dinner time, and you’d miss me. E. A. ROOD, Toledo, Ohio, nys : *Ha,ll’s Catarrh Cure cured my vise of catarrh fifteen years ago, and she has had no return Of it. It’s a Bure cure.” Bold by Druggists, 75c. The La Grange (Ga.) Graphic says: “There is a negro in Perry by the name of Alfred Swift who was struck by lightning recently. The bolt s ruck him at the elbow on th? right arm, ran up his arm, around his bodv, down both legs, tearing both his shoes to pieces. The marks of the lightning are as plain as on a pine tree.”

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Contempt of Court.

A barrister in a court of justice, examining a woman as a witness, 6&id: “Facts are stubborn things.” Witness—Yes, sir; and so are women. And if you get anything out of me just let me know it! Barrister You’ll be committed for contempt. Witness—Very well; I’ll Buffer justly, for I feel the utmost contempt for every lawyer present!

The “Mother's Friend"

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