Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — The Nurse's Voice. [ARTICLE]

The Nurse's Voice.

We cannot, and should- npt, forbear attendance upon the sick beeausg nature has not gifted us with that rarq. blessed boon of a sweet and musical the elocutionist, should the nurse study to modulate such organs as she does pos> sess to the utmost gentleness of w hiclf they are capable. For nothing is of greater importance, we assure her, i| she desires to sooth irritated nerve and quiet perturbed spirits; than to use an habitually-Boft and calm speech in.” all hqr conversation,.either with the sick or in their presence.— American Agriculturist.

a New Process of Giving Age to Whisky. “Give it a shock.” A young man from Chicago stood before one Of the most elegant bars in the city and gave the above order to the bar-tender, who stood waiting for a citizen to dispose of a rather big drink of pure whisky. “A what, sah?” asked the chemist, leaning over the bar to catch his customer’s remark. “Why, a shock. Haven’t you Imported an electrical machine here yet ? They’re getting popular out West.” The young man raised the glass to his lips and drank its contents at one draught. A reporter who had wandered in to get a toothpick had overheard the conversation, and begged the Chicago young man to explain the meaning of a shock. The latter led the way to a seat and unfolded the mystery. • • “It is nothing but a cheap method of purifying whisky,” said he, “age and purity are almost synonymous in speaking of liquor. By this process every saloon can have a little machine turned by hand, and every person can be personally convinced tiiat his whisky is electrically pure. All that is necessary is to have two blocks of carbon, which are inserted in the liquor to be purified. These &fe connected with the positive and negative poles of an ordinary electric machine, and are wrapped about with flannel. The chemical action upon th 6 liquor is such that all the impurities are attracted thereto. . The ■vHrewMvnF-ftisil oil also findw lodgment in the flannel, and when the latter is removed it looks as if it had been steeped in brine. Dealers will no longer need to use the antiquated prevarication that wine has been sent on a voyage. The necessary age*can be attached to it by a dynamo-electric machine in a very few minutes.” The young man grew quite enthusiastlc while talkihg;'and;as he by, added: “Come to Chicago and get some liquor with some age to it.” — Cleveland Herald. —•—