Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1885 — The New Anaesthetic Cocoaine [ARTICLE]

The New Anaesthetic Cocoaine

Since oar last issue Dr. Washburn gave us the following Concerning the new anaesthetic, cocoaine. He says the' information of the Mcnticello Herald is not styiotly correct. Dr. Carl Kolleiy of Vienna, Austria, was tryitig the effects ot the drug on the system generally. He took a quantity upon his tongue and ndticed' the benumbing ell'eet'. The idea then oecwred to him that the influence of cocoaine, on the nerves distributed to the membrane lining the l;ds and covering the ball of the eye, should be the same, and, if so; would bo o? great importance. He immediately made a trial on animals and succeeded so that he could handle the eye ball or operate npoit it without giving any pain. Dr. Koller used it in some operations and published his discovery in August last. Since that time nearly every operation necessary to be performed upon the eye has been under its influence, even the removal of the <-*><* 'tail. It is too tedious lor the deeper operations of the rye as only a slight amount of cutting can be done at a time and then, it has to bo re-applied before -the operator can proceed.

The European nuisance of “tipping” jservants for every inconsiderable thing they do or ere supposed to do is becoming altogether too common in this country. A certain hotel at one of the New Turk watering places recognizes it as firmly .established, and adds 25 cents to the bill for dinner for the service of •~spreadbight before the -gnesi. It were as reasonable to add another quarter for making out the bill. By the way, we have to thank our continental tourists for this innovation. No people as niuc-h as A/inerican travelers giyo encouragement to this imposition. In France, for example, it is customary ih ordinary restaurants to pay the waiteh 4 cents (sous) as a tip or pourl oh-. The American'grande©" disdains this petty figure, and makes it a dime -or a franc. As a na t übal consegueuco' if folloifs ihrd,Americans' who will consent to this thing.abroad will not look upon it with disfavor at home, and hence its introduction. It is not so bad when the tip involves but 2 or 4 cents, as in Paris, but to increase it to »• quarter or a half makes it a nuisance wnd a burden.

Axv young person who wishes to become a copyist or assis ant clerk, or •other subordinate.employedn the courts of New York, will find it-necessary to first an' wer along scri -s of questions. He will be 'required to define such words as fork, friable, cotton-gin, u*gis„ and palladium; to give a brief but gram ..atlral and analytical disquislton on the English language;.to name ten great nations bf fore the time of the G risks: +0 mention what was tin- natide which first traded with Britain and why; to give a synopsis of. the early history' ot this country, including the names of the colonists and dates of their arrival. He will alsq hri asked, among other things, to mention the, ton Governors of New York preceding the present on", besides the former and present Governors of several, other States, To show what lie can do in a mathematical way he will be requested to compute the'iuterest at 21 per cent, on what he believes, to .be the national debt.of the United States, and to show his method of working the same. After he has answered these conundrums and more like them, the following collection of words will be given him to, analyze and parse: “At the middle of a night very dark, a blind -was walk in the streets with a light on the hand and a full jar upon the back. Spine one which ran to meet him, and surprised of that light:Simple that you are, told him, what, serve yoil this light V The night and the day ate not thorn, the same tiling to you!—lt is net. for me, was answering thy blind, that I bring this light, it 5 to Hie e.;d that the giddies which seem to voiv dornot come to run against me, and make to break my jar.’ ” There is no doubt tnat the cavil service of New Yo l; needs reforming, but there semis a probability that the. persons- who .can answer this remarkable series of questions are., al e'ady engaged in oceupati ns more'lucrative than can bo found in county or city offices., Ci il-s'i vice. reform conducted by men of connaon sense is one thing; ynifcneged by peua. t;, simpletons is another, and - its success not to bq expected or hoped for. The Digger Indians were, until a fev years ago, considered the most ignofiau' and least intelligent human beings on the Pmdfic coast. Those who live on Rancho Chico have now- been educated in civilized jays. They have learned' to read and write' almost as well as white people, and some of them have even become musicians. They recently gave an entertainment in San Fran-' cisco, under the care of their instructors. Sunday-School hymns, nattbnal songs, aud other musical and metrical coinjuMkiens ware ronderwl by their 9Wf to ft wjf feUsitoii*