Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1882 — THE TEETH. [ARTICLE]

THE TEETH.

BY I. B. WASHBURN.

uses of the teeth are welT enough underetood, but many people abuse them by cracking nuts, and biting hard substances or by eating food or drinking fluids when too hot or too celd, causing the enamel to crack, and the teeth to decay, where if properly used they- might be kepi perfectly healthy, and save much suffering and even the loss of them. The /teeth are subject to two diseases that are very frequent: Caries, or decay of the tooth-bone; and periostitis or inflamation of the membrane covering the roots of the teeth. The causes es deoay of teeth may be heat, sold, crowding together, the too free use of calomel in early life, want of care, and it may be hereditary. Decay generally commences in the dentine or tooth-bone at the surface, appearing as a dark spot under the enamel, which after a time gives away and a cavity is formed. The disease spreads to the cavity of the tooth afflicting the pulp and nerve producing a genuine tooth-ache. If the teeth are crowded elose together both are effected and then cavities form between the teeth. In such eases treatment and Alling with gold and silver amalgam, will save the teeth if reported io early enough. Persons should have their teeth examined at least once every six months, by a good dentist, and have all cavities filled while small, so as to avoid pain and perhaps the loss of tho teeth. No artificial teeth can be as geod and useful as the natural ones, and people who have their teeth extracted because they none in order to save the expense of filling could do better. Periostitis or inflammation of the membrane covering the roots of the teeth, is quite a common result of the too free use of calomel, of taking cold, and of irritation caused by broken, diseased of dead teeth. The inflammation of that membrane causes it to swell and that causes the tooth to feel loose, and longer than natural, and when the teeth are brought together or the patient bites upon a solid substance he feels severe pain. Inflammation if very severe will frequently result in alveolar abscess gum boil. Extractions is the common method of getting rid of such oases by physicians, but a good dentist ean save very many teeth thus effected. Few people, however, have the patience to wait for a painful tooth to be cured, which of course require* judicious treatment in order to succeed. A tooth is said to be necrosed or dead, when it is black or loose in its socket. Tartar is an earthy deposit upon the teeth from the saliva. It collects mostly -upon the upper molars and the inferior incisors, if suffered to accumulate it causes inflamation of the gums and loosening of the teeth. Scurvy of the gums generally effect the middle aged or older persons, and may be caused by collections of tartar, ora bad condition es the system. The gums are swollen, tender, and bleed eaeily. If the disease continues they separate from the teeth, tho bone forming the sockets is absorbed, and tho teeth loosen and fall out, or are extracted as the quickest way of getting rid of them.

An Indiana Congressman, who has bean investigating the subject, has come to the conclusion that the best and easiest way to detect frauds in pensions is to publish in the newspapers of each douniv, at stated intervals, the names of the pensioners in that locality, with the amount received arid the reasons why the pensions were granted. Thu would subject the list to the scrutiny of the public, and imposters could be easily detected, There are a good many arguments in favor of this scheme.

Loren Pomeroy, the former postmaster at Hebron, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years, on the charge of stealing money from registered letters, j The Valporaiso Messenger thinks the money was stolen by loafers, while Pomeroy was under the influence of morphine to the use of which drug he was addicted. I -4t iii. *. '..Milin , Liver complaints always yield to a few doses of Rhinehart’s Liver Pills. Only one for a dbse. Sample dose free. Fo • sale by Imes A Meyer.

The publisher of the Rochester Republican has reduced the else of Jiis from a seven to aoix«cot» utoH-quarto, and in annouocing tko change administers to himself tko subjoined vigorous kicking: Ihe publishers of the Republi* can has been playing the fool long enough in trying to publish tho largest paper in the country ot tho smUlest price. He believes ia giving his patrons a full quid pro quo for their money, but their ere many reasons why the country press cannot compete in- size ana cheapness with city competitors. In the first place the better a newspaper is liked at home the lees ib is esteemed abroad. This may seem paradoxical but ia neverthm* less true. A newspaper devoted exclusively, or even largely to local interests cannot hope for an extended circulation. The matten of which it treats are unintelligibly, or at least uninteresting to outsiders, and they will not patronise a purely local sheet of a strange locality, no matter how well edndueted it may be. Hence tho country paper can only look for patrons inside the ooimty, and when published in a sparsely settled district, must sail near shore if it hopes to elude the sunken rocks of bankruptcy. Secondly, the city weekly is made up from the daily, and the publishers saves the expense of type-setting entirely. Thirdly, its large circulation, procured by its absolution from the duty of chrontcliug a aim portant local eventsyorrd its ability io furnish the paper nt the bare cost of the white paper, enhances tbe value of its advertising columns. We presume that u single column of the Infor-Ocean yields more income than the entire receipts ot the Republican office, and, as it is all clear gain, a few columns of advertising in the weekly are enough to swell the coffers of the company very perceptibly. But the country . publishers has no resources worthy of thy name. A few hundred dollars from advertising and job work constitute the support of his family while subscription receipts are devoted to paying office expenses. If these latter become too large he goes up, and all his efforts to furnish his reaeers a good paper are> forgotton, while hit folly and failure are remembered* We have been tantalized for not making asmuch money at 11,50 for a 7-column quarto as a predccsMor made ab $2,00 for an 8-oolumn folio. The difference in size, cost of paper and subscription price is not taken into account bv our critics, who look wonderfully wise whbn they pronounco us no business ffian. Esther late in life we have discovered that a man is respected according to the contents of his pocket-book rather, than his head, and from this on shall endeavor to conduct our business with a view to profit. Circus tickets and glory are played out. The “break-up of the Democrat, ioparty has reached North Carelina. Col. W. P. Johnson and Judge Charles Price, two leading Democrats, have declared their abandonment of rock-rooted Democratic ideas, and are ready to Mahonixe tbe old North State. Cols. Foke and Nat Atkinson have also left the Bourbons, and Gen. J. M Leach, who headed the Hancock electoral ticket, is crelited with saying that he is going io vote for the next President—a Republican. Senator Ranson according to reports, said there will be nothing left of his party in six months if the present rate of desertion is kept up. The procession is moving, the bands are playing, and the flags flying. Any one wishing to join for 1884 must fall in pretty soon.