Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

then be washed in strong soapsuds, rinsed in warm water, and dried. It should then be filled with fresh oil. The burner should be boiled in soda and water until the network that crosses it is freed from dirt and dust. It the wick becomes clogged with th« sediment, replace it with a new one.

Presence of mind saved John Adams, of Tacoma, from a frightful death. He is employed in a smelting works in that city. The other day a misstep caused him to fall into a pot of boiling metal, and in an instant he was immersed to his armpits. As he fell he clutched the rim of the pot, and was thus enabled to quickly draw himself out. He then plunged into an adjoining pot of cold water. His hands were badly burned, but otherwise he had hardly a scar on him. The sedL'et of his escape was that he had on heavy woolen underwear and outer clothing, and before it had burned through Adams was in the pot of cold water.

The dental vibrator is an apparatus for rendering the abstraction of teeth painless. It is simply an application of the well-known electric shock used in medicine and sometimes to be had country fairs. An induction giving a very rapidly intermitting current is the source of the electricity, and the patient receives the shock by grasping metal handles connected to the poles of the secondary circuit of the coil. The forceps of the operator are also connected in the circuit of the current. The consequence is that the patient feels only the peculiar sensation of “pins and needles,” produced by the intermittent current traversing his nerves, and the actual pain of loosing the teeth is said to be masked. The vibrator has been introduced into the Institute of Medical Electricitv.

The use of bitter almonds as a flavoring is to be reprobated. The essential oil, made by distilling the pulp of the pounded nut with water, is an irritant poison, from ten to thirty drops of which is capable of poisoning an adult. Recently quite a sensation was caused by the serious illness of a prominent society woman from the eating of the salted almonds, which are such a favorite relish. Throughout an afternoon and evening, at luncheon, high tea, and dinner, the nuts were nibbled in default of appetite. The poison received was a small portion of anhydrous prussic acid, or hydrocyanic acid. This is the base of the cyanide of potassium, used by photographers, electrotypers, etc., from three to five grains of which will kill, like prussic acid.

The Rev. Lyman Abbott, the successor of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, is a thin, delicate, small-limbed man. Humor is not in his line, and he rarely makes his congregation smile. NpPloDg ago, however, he involuntarily made theK titter. The subject of his sermon was the obligation resting upon Christians to get out of their shells and do something for the good of mankind. “What is this wonderful body of ours given us for?” Dr. Abbott exclaimed. “Look at ft. Look at these muscles.” Dr. Abbott stretched out his thin arms. “Look at this strength, this adaptability, this God-given vigor.” Something in the expression of the faces of the members of the congregation and a rustling like a faint titter recalled the preacher to himself, and with a faint smile he passed to another phase of his sermon.

A new story is told of Oliver Walton, who in his day was the greatest dealer in good horses near Boston. On one occasion he come iuto Maine and bought an extra good horse for S3OO. The horse breeder was one of the niggardly kind and asked: “How are \ou going to lead the horse away V” “With that halter, to be sure,” said Walton, busy counting out the money for the horse. “No, sir,” said the breeder, “the halter don’t go with the horse, it belongs to me. I did not sell you that.” “What, not let me have a halter after I have given you your price for the horse?” asked old Oliver, a little surprised. “ What da you want for it?” “A dollar, sir,” said the farmer. “All right,” said Walton, “here is the dollar.” He put the re3t of his money in his pocket, then stepped quickly to the horse’s head and remarked: “I will take the halter, but I guess I will not take the horse.” He took off the halter, let the horse go loose, and ti;9 breeder had many a long day in which to repent of his overreaching.

“Nearly everybody eats far more than is necessary,” says a leading physician. “Among my patients those who eat the least get over their mullvgrubs the quickest, while those who eat the heaviest are ill the oftenest. My experience shows that half the ailments of life are brought about by overeating or drinking. I myself take a light breakfast, perhaps eggs with toast, or tish with potatoes, or a bit of cold chicken, or something of the kind, and a cap of coffee. At noon I take milk, with a few crackers, or else some fruit. At 6 I have a hearty but not heavy dinner, with soup, fish, meat, vegetables, bread, and a few glasses of light wine. Ido not eat over a pound and a half of solid food a day, though I am more robust than most men, and am never troubled with any of the hundred complaints that are the result of overeating. I advise you to eat lightly, be careful of what you eat, and take your time in eating. This looks like commonplace advice, but my fee for it, without any pills, is $10.”