Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — The Pregent Generation [ARTICLE]

The Pregent Generation

Lives at telegraphic speed—eats too fast, retires too late, does notarise betimes, smokes, and (alas, that we should have to say It!) chews too much tobacco. The consequences are dyspepsia, a general absence of that robust and manly vigor which characterized our ancestors, and a manifest proneness to early decay. Regular hours, a due allowance of time for meals, the disuse of excessive smoking, and altogether of chewing tobacco, in connection with a course of Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, will in nine cases out of ten efface consequences of the abuses of the laws of health indicated above. A want of stamina, dyspepsia, nervousness, and biliousness are among these consequences, and they are bodily ills to the removal of which the Bitters is specially adapted. Nor is the Bitters lest fitted to overcome and prevent fever and ague, kidney and bladder troubles, and rheumatic ailments. It is also a fine appetizer and promoter of convalescence. Experiments have been made by a* committee of French experts, including M. Pasteur, in order to ascertain the best means of disinfecting chambers in which cases of contagions affections have been lodged. The committee reports that sulphuric acid gas is the best disinfectant; but recommends that instead of simply burning sulphur, as is done in barracks and such places, bisulphate of carbon should be burned in rooms, as it is less injurious to furniture or metals. A negro who dived into a lake at Apopka, Fla., stuck his head so fast into the mud that he was drowned.