Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Throat Disease. [ARTICLE]

Throat Disease.

Doctor Thomas Weipham, who has charge of throat disease in St. George’s Hospital, says that the disease.is caused by the habit of hanging the bead. The orator who directs his remarks to the bottom button of his waistcoat is almost certain to have a sore throat. The bar looks up to the bench; barristers seldom have clergymen’s sore throat. But the clergyman in reading the prayers looks down upon his book; his chin is upon his chest. When he preaches his eyes are still upon his manuscript. Let him lift his eyes, praying with diligent observation of the roof, and preaching in a physical sense to the gallery, and he will escape the great clerical malady. —[New England Journal of Education. It is singular that so many Western banks should be swamped when the people have so thoroughly drained them. —[Lowell Courier.