Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1877 — Coughing in Church. [ARTICLE]

Coughing in Church.

On Bunday, Jan 7, a lady in the luces santly during his discourse. This clergyman speaks without notes, and the coughing made him very nerupus. He glanced up several times, and finally remonstrated with her and expressed his opinion that she had better retire. What he said was papers, yrd* .we usderatantothat Mr., f 1 e for pointing her out so conspicuously. Yesterday every seat in the church was filled, but the amount of suppressed whole they were lidble to be pointed out as disturbers of the minister’s peace of mind seemed to‘act as an irritant upon the throats of nineteen persons out of twenty in the congregation. The writer sat in moetof-the people up-emirs' and twothirds of those in the body of the church, and it was curious to notice the amount soboTn Onceortwlce, and moraor less throughSltliafjflbcahrse. The very attempt to overcome the desire to cough led, no doubt, to a great deal of suffering anioug the aud gendeiuen w as of hwy desire to bedisrespectful to the minister, but was a matter of purely sympathetic nervousness. We all desire to do what we should not do, and coughing, like yawning, becomes general

from the mite imltatiHnese of •pnUgioua through the church, and relief was experienced for a short time. A number" of the congregation were seen to be eating trochesand lozenges, and among them ex-Benator Morgan. It is safe to say that there was mote coughing yesterday in Mr. Bevans’ church than in any ten churches in the city. By.the way, it should be remembered that the desire to cough can be allayed -by drawing a deep inspiration thp.ngh (he open mejrth. Swallowing saliva Jo also 'resorted to sometimes with good effects. The poorest wav, however, is toendeavor to choke it down. TW? inflames UjCfWAKe throat, and, after causing muclt annoy ance, finally leads to an explosion.—A Y. GrapMt.