Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1881 — Charcoal as a Disinfectant. [ARTICLE]

Charcoal as a Disinfectant.

The value of charcoal in certain foimsof dyspepsia which are accompanied with fermentation or decomposition of the food in place of good Digestion is easily understood in view of the fact that it has a wonderfully absorptive power, a property which enables it to take up many times its own weight of such gases as are developed by processes of decomposition. It is related that an eminent chemist placed a dead dog in a box and covered it to the depth of two or three inches. • No offensive odor came from the box, though subsequent examination showed that the flesh had disappeared entirely and left only the bones. The poisonous gases of a composition had all been absorbed by the charcoal— Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly-

Princess Dnlgourouki, widow of the late Czar, left St. t Petersburg two hours after her husband’s death with her three children. The Vienna papers say that she no doubt availed herself of the general confusion to quit the Winter Palace unnoticed, and traversed Russia under a false name. Her fear was lest she should be put into a convent and separated from her children. Her future is very sufficiently assured, there being over $30,000,000 to her credit inßerlin. The last deposit of $6,000,000 was lodged in the banks only three weeks before the Czar’s terrible death.

Elixir Vite for Women—Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 283 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., has made the discoveryj Her Vegetable Compound is apositive cure for female complaints. A line addressed to this 4ady will elicit all necessary information.

“The man with the iron jaw,” otherwise known as* John Blanchard, has been arrested iff New York for stealing SI,OOO worth of diamonds from Mrs. J. D. Sweet.