Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

physicians, But each man is a physician of one part of the body only, for one heaieth diseases of the eyes, and another diseases of the head, and a third diseases of the teeth.” Carbon is an element which assumes diverse forms; for instance plumbago, charcoal, and the diamond. Herr Schutzenbeigex has recently produced it in a novel by passing cyanogen through a porcelain tube heated to a cherry-red, and containing gas oarboa sprinkled with powdered cryolite. The carbon separates in a bulky mass of slender filaments, which can be compressed into a substance resembling graphite or plumbago. An Atchison, Kan., girl some time ago married a man she did not care for. The match was made by her parents, whom she told she would come back home to live in a month, anyway. She recently visited home for the first time in two years, and was so anxious to get back to her husband that she did not remain a week. It occasionally happens that the man makes a success of it who does not win a woman’s affections until after he has married her.

A St. Petersburg lady of fashion has invented an improvement in her turnout which, the local papers say, is likely to become popular with all ladies of rank. She has a mirror fastened to the girdle of her driver when she takes a drive. This enables her not only to see whether her headgear and dress are in perfect order, but even to notice the carriages and the people who are coming up behind her vehicle. Russia claims to possess the oldest soldier in the world in Col. Gritzenko, of Poltava, near Odessa, who on Feb. 7 celebrated his 117th birthday. Entering the service in 1789, over oae hundred years ago, be received from the hands of Empress Catherine, after the taking of Ismail, where he was serving under Suwaroff, the military gold medal. This bears the inscription : “For exceptional bravery at the a sault of Ismail, Dec. 11, 1789.” M. De Tocqueville, the celebrated French author, pays the following compliment to American women: “I do not hesitate to avow that, although the women of tire United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life and their situation is, in some respects, one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position, and, if I were asked to what the sfligular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, to the superiority of their women.” All Paris is laughing over the joke about an American inventor who is said to have patented a corset that is to bring about the reign of morality at once. If one of thesearticles is pressed by a lover’s arm it at once emits a shriek like the whistle of a railroad engine; and the inventor claims that he has already married three of his daughters, owing to the publicity thus thrust upon a backward lover. But the wits of Paris, carrying out the joke to its utmost, profess to fear that soon the parlors will become unbearable, owing to the simultaneous and continued whistling of the corsets.

A curious story was told on the streets by one John Sellers, representing himself as living in the Trinity bottoms about fourteen miles east of Ennis, writes an Ennis, Texas, correspondent. He said that a colored woman living along the river bank lost her 2-year-old child, a boy just able to walk, and search was made, but unsuccessfully, and the mother gave it up for lost. Further, that some fishermen while returning from an excursion found the baby, alive and well, perched on some driftwood, drifting placidly toward the Gulf, about twenty miles down the river; that it took the fishermen two days to discover the mother and restore the babe to its home.

Some wonderful, experiments in hypnotism were recently successfully given in the Coleman House, New York, by Prof. John E. Kennedy, before the' physicians attached to the Bellevue Hospital One man, while in the hypnotic state. Had a needle and" thread run through his tongue and cheek without feeling it; another had the flesh of his arm burned with a lighted cigar and experienced no pain. One subject drank four ounces of castor oil, thinking it was beer; and three subjects were made to believe themselves engaged in a yacht cruise, which closed with an imaginary ■wreck, the yachtsmen hujrriedly throwing off their shoes and diving head-first to the parlor floor to escape from the sinking vessel.

The truth of the germ theory of disease would seem to be demonstrated, at least with regard to some diseases, by the researches of Dr. Koch. In cases of a few diseases, notably splenic fever, there accumulates in the blood and tissues, but n.ore especially in the spleen, a peculiar kind of bacteria. Where animals are inoculated with fluid containing either the bacilla themselves or their spores, he has produced all the phenomena of splenic fever. From this hypothesis the now celebrated micrologist has deduced the fact that by inoculating people suffering with tubercular diseases with a lymph the bacteria of this particular disease—admitting such to be of bacterian origin— are destroyed effectually.