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The Exeter Times, 1892-2-18, Page 3HEALTH. Taking Odd. Otte of the most important points in the care of the iyetetn is the keeping of the feet warm ani dry, This lesson has been taught over ,tai over, bub it is to be feared that a good many persons read solemn warnings, born of tragic experiences, and gi o them no mond thought. Our climate, with its sharp, suddeu changes, calls for the exercise of prudence in the matter of dross, to a de- gree that may be unknown in other regions where a more equable and favorable condi- tion exists. Warm, comfortable undercloth- ing is indispensable, and should be borne even during a brief " warm spell" as a guard against dagger from climatic changes. A person having become heated either by ac- tivicexertion or by an excessive temperature, should not suddenly plunge into a chilling temperature,or sit either in a damp place or ina cool breeze. The checking ofthcperspira- Lion toosuddenly lays the foundationof a soverecoldiuevery instance. Gentle exercise should be continued till the system hat, re- gained :something approaching a norinalcon- dition. N14,41.so the list of cautious might be extendea; tut the remainder would be as hackneyed as those already given. Care- lessness or inditfereu.:o gives the resutt,with adult people, seine times out of ten, though it islittlo cure for the ill to say, when the mischief is wrought, " I might have known better." Still it often occurs that with the utmost care cold will be contradicted, and the auf-- forer be wholly unable to even suggest the time, place or circumstances which gave the unfortunate exposure. A catarrhal congos• tion, dull headache, or some of the other familiar signs will be experienced, and the victim simply realizes that the time of pre - mutton bas passed, Muoh of the greater part of the sickness of winter comes directly or indirectly from taking cold. The list is very long. It embraces colds proper, coughs, hoarseness, sore throat, influenza, catarrh, neuraight, rheumatism, with bronchitis and consumption as direct results. Ie is not, therefore, in good taste to say +' only a cold," es giving the impression that the dif- ficulty will be gone in a day or 80 ; but the feet should always be recognized that even an apparently slight cold may be the begin- ning of a serious and possibly fatal. illness.. 1)o not lose any time in attending to a cold. It is not always possible for a per- son to give adequate treatment to a cold during the daytime. Duties which cannot be postponed may interfere. But, goner - ally speaking, when the evening comes remedial measares are in order. There are So many ways of treating a cold that one is almost perplexed to know which to recom- mend ; and perhaps it is as well that some- thing should bo left to individual judge meat, to be determined, by circumstances. One general principle may, consequently, be laid down --cold being the manifestation by congestion of the abnormal choking of the perspiration, or iu other words the re- n chill t ion of the systein, suit of i l o some portion s o n the first remedial measure should be the to -establishing of the deranged action. It matters comparatively little, therefore, by what ordinary means the perspiration is started atone with renewed vigor, only so that the entire body be included. A fav orito method with the writer is simply to take aneadequate dose of aome rt herb tea" or similar preparation, going immediately to bed and covering with something mote than the usual atnouut of bedding. A per- spiration will act in, lasting for some hours, but before morning the system will have recovered its normal tone, and in most ease there is no necessity for further treat- ment. Iluth-t;, a on the supposition that there are no serious or threatening complieattous. Possibly there may bo a severe headache iu connection. In that case the head is pro- bably heated, while the feet and Inaba are cold. and clammy. This is ..imply an indi- eation that the blood is being forced to the head and should, if possible,bo orsded to resume a morequal more ua movement. This will be best facilitated by placing the foot in hot water, rubbing the nether lirnbs briskly. It will aid in the result if the head be also freely bathed in warm, but not hot, water. As this cools, it cools also the excessive temperature of the head, and is a better method of reaching the result than the direct application of cold water. The lower limbs should then be wrapped in a dry, waren blanket, and the patient should. retire as before. The internal treatment is not to be overlooked, and any of the favor- ite herbs may be employed. Showers of Bloody Baan, At ,Rome, in 1222, it rained dust mixed with blood for three days, and, after the clouds had drifted away, it looked as if the suu was swimming in a sea of fire, Four years later, in 1226, a snow fell in Syria which was said to have been of as many colors as the rainbow. It thawed one day and was covered with a bright blue crust the following morning. On the fifth day it melted and rau off in torrents of blood, or something muck resembling that sanguine fluid in every particular. Many of the old writers record a three days' shower of bloody rain which fell in the Isle of Rhodes Sardia, and Italy, in 1236. In 1343 old army eater gave marvelous exhibitions. Fie ce tempests and terrible earthquakes were the order of the day. Several towns and thousands of people were swallowed up, and the courses of many European rivers changed or entirely stopped. Many poison- ous fountains gushed out in Austria and Italy, the fluids from them being of different odors and colors. One spring winch broke from the mountain side near Vilach, Austria was as red as carmine ink, and so poisonous that the fumes from it killed all the cattle grazing in the Wellecht Valley. Ponderous hailstones fell in Germany, some of them weighing as much as seventy pounds. At Latneoh it rained flesh, dust, comets, fire- brands, eta Mock suns with fiery tails ;ailed through the air. These poisonous vapors are thought to have been the main cause of the great plague of 1350. I]ir;hting the Influenza, There is as much mystery about the nature and origin of a cold as there is about the influenza, and it is popularly believed to be catching from one moinber of a family to another, anJl not infrequently a whole house- hold is d..arvn at the same time with" colds " as mania families are now down with in- fluenza. The only obvious difference is the greater hat:Amiby of the symptoms of influen- za, and the gveater need for care—such cate as we would tserve in treating a bad cold— to avoid complications which are no necess- ary part of either, but which often accom- pany both forms. of complaint. When : we look to Me victim of the prevailing epi- demic, Tee flnd they are of the niostpart w hat might be ratted well-preserved lives, old peeple vafeo by careful and extremely tem- perature living and by tire watchful care of their medical attendants have survived longer, than the rough wear and tear of life would .heert permitted had they been ex- posed te it. Wo are constantly boasting o f TRE WORLD OF LABOR. the increase in the length of life in .recent years, and much of this is due to our in.- creased n-creased knowledge in combating the dangers or the tendencies to death which surround the age of both sexes. Other formsof epidemic diseases can be shut out, and the arts of eating, drinking and sleeping have become so carefully for- mulated, even widely studied, that many persons are able to live on in a mechanical sort of way on a very limited amount of vitality. It is these persons who are now felting easy victims to influenza against whioh they have not yet discovered a de- fense; while those of a healthy and robust constitution resist the disease, or elan pass throuyhit, with more pain and inconvenience it must be admitted, but with hardly leas. danger than that attending an ordinary cold.. A11 the deaths are not those of aged per- sons, it is true ,• but the feeble and damaged constitutions at all ages are of the same type, and fall away victims to a disease which is in the air, and which easily finds itsway to the fire -side and theinvelidcouch. The best preventive measure. against the in- fluenza is robust health. Perhaps we are getting a little too intemperate in eating and drinking, and coddle ourselves too much in furs and wraps at ordinary times ; but, in anycase, the best treatment is just • what we all lamer as the best treaernent of a bad cold ---a warm bed, warm drinks, and plenty of them, together with patience and freedom from meatal worry and anxiety ; while the best preventive is good living and plenty of fresh air. Are Cold Baths Injurious to Health,. Cold bathing is injurious for persons with heart or lung disease, and for thosoin whom it causes a aensatioa of chilliness, and is not followed by a sensation of warctith, or reac- tion as it is termed, If a bather comes out all aglow whilst dressing, the cold bath is not only not injurious, but beneficial, as it then acts as a tonic and braces the system, if, however, the sense of chill remains, the bather not being able to rally from the dis- tressing influence of the cold, a cold bath in such a case is not invigorating but the re - verso, aud is positively injurious to health. The water for the bath in such cases should be war or tepid. In ail cases vigorous rub- bing o- bing should fellow after bathing, and it is desirable that reaction should betatimulated by exercise, such as a brisk walk. Persons who advocate cold bathe daily for all per - eons are clearly wrong, as what is suitable and beneficial for one constitution is pos- sibly objectionable, and even dangerous; to another. There is no hard -and fast rule in the matter applicable to every one alike. AUSTRALIA'S AWFUL VEST.. 20,00,000 itabtilrs to Five reale,. The plague of rabbits in Australia cannot bo described without seeming exaggeration to those who have not had experience of it. Originally introduced in a colony of about score of individuals fla as latto�s a Mel- bourne, , ler 1 1 h bourne, who ihouglttheirfamiliar presence ou his station would "remind him of home," they have kept the recollection of England se fresh in the minds of pastoralists as to tempt them to very treasonable language concerning hog whenever rabbits are men - banal. The fecundity of the rabbit is amazing, and his invasion of remote districts swift and mysterious. Ceroful estimates show that, under favorable conditions, a pair of Australian rabbits will produce six litters a year, averaging five individuals each. As the offspring themselves begin breeding at the ago of six months, it is shown that, at this rate. the original pair might ho ream - Bible in five years for a progeny of over 20,.- 000,0001 That the original score which were brought to the country have propagat ed after .somo such. ratio, no one can doubt who has soca the enormous hordes that now devastate the land in certain districts. In all but the remoter suctions, however, the rab- bits aro now fumy under control; ono rahbiter with a pack of dogs supervises stations where one hundred were employed tenyears ago, and with ordinary vigilance the scjuatters have little to fear. Millions of the animate leave been killed by fencing in the water -holes and dams during a dry season, whereby they died of thirst, and layin enormous piles against the obstruc- tions they had frantically and vaulty atriven to climb, and poisoned grain and fruit have killed myriads more. A fortune of £25,000, offered by the New Soath Wales Goverment, still awaits the man who can invent some means of general destruction, and the knowledge of this fact has brought to the notice of the various Colonial governments some very original devices.—[from ''Station Life in Auetr•tlia," by Sidney Dickinson, in February Scribner. DWELLERB IN THE ANTIS. Tho People of 'Upper tircentnad. In 1813, Sir John Boss discovered an iso- lated race of human beings numbering about two hundred souls, living on the inhospita- ble shores of North Green lend. To this com- munity ho gave the romantic name of "Arc- tic Highlanders," a name which unfortun- ately is misleading; for they aro a littoral people and cannot inhabit the erotic high- land, as it is au everlasting ice -cap, and moreover they will not even visit it, for this inland lee 11 to them a region of terror; a land whore abide their demons and evil spirits. At the present day they number as near as eau be estimated, about the samosa when the knowledge of them,came to thecivilized world ;; nor have they increased their terri- tory, but live on the narrow strip of moun- tainous coast, which is left bare during the summer months, by the retreat'of the winter snows. They couldnot be more cut off from other human beings .did they live on some small oceanic island. Practically they do live on an island, for they are surrounded by water ; by great e . panes of solid water ; for they never pass the ice barrier of the great Humboldt Glacier, with its sea face of sixty miles ; they never ascend to the emu - mer foot of -the "ice -blink," some two thou- sand feet above sea level; nor attempt to wander south over the vast ice -floes of Mel- ville Bay, one hundred miles in extent. At 79' north latitude, near the southern edge' of the Humboldt Glacier, is a collection of huts known as h.tah,, their most northern settlement, while at Cape York, in latitude 75 ° 55, N., probably their largest encamp- ment, is their, southern limit, and which, as near • as we could determine by the sign language, they call Pitanito. Their country may be said to about one hundred and eighty-five, miles long and from three to five miles in breadth. 'Twould be of no Use. Stern Parent—" I tell you what it is, Martha, I'm tired of seeing that young fel- low coming here two or three evenings a week. I think,' shall have to sit down on him." Martha--" I wouldn't, pa ; 'twould be of no use. I've done it, myself • tunes, and I rather think he likes it. ' A Few roams About industry.. 'Frisco has 5,000 Japs. Canada has a cigar trust.. Electric heating spreads. A rice trust is announced. Driving belts are of paper, Currycombs are in a trust. Electric alining is growing. Japan operates its railroads. London has 65,000 Germans. Glasa•coated bricks are announced. Paris has eighty-seven daily papers. London has 18,000 newspaper women. Tho States have 1,797 distinct railroads. Chinese gold miners in Nevada get $6. a day. lUncle Sam boasts of two negro women awyers- Great Britain has 217,600 union mine workers, A Munich microscope will be run by elec- tricity, the Polesschoolsini. Prussia want Polish taught in Fireflies in are furnish light in the West Indies, A Nevada man claims a gnu that fires fif- teen allots a second. Aromad Oldham, Eng., there are 101 cot- ton spinning mills. telegraSpainph hasbusiness. consolidated the postoffice and Mails may be shipped by electricity from Brooklyn to New York, Only citizens who can read and write are allowed to vote in Bolivia. New York granite nutters will have a $5,000 monument at the world's fair. Everything from a beet to a glass of champagne is 25 cents in Yokohofna, Japan. ideaThe. State Trades assembly, of New York, want land assessed after the siogio-tax The United States bas a capacity for producing about 15,250,000 pounds paper nuually. It is possible to draw platinum and silver into wire that is fines than the bun= hair. 'Frisco women shoofltters make $12 a' ween and.averege $6 a week. The union numbers 300 women. The grand total of charitable bequests in Englaudlastyear, excluding Baron Hirsch a, was $15,000,1100. The United Kingdom hes 180,000 land- owners, who possess between thein the whole of the landed possessions. Mme. Furtado-Heine has given 'warm clothing, boots, etc., to nearly 6,000 poor boys and girls of Paris this winter. California produced enough wiue this sea - sea to allow u quart for o cryman, woman and child in the United Stats. Sheet -iron kites, to enable a vessel when in distress during a storm to communicate withtho shore, have been suggested. The state board of agricultural of Indiana will give organized labor the preference in the construction of its uow buildings. In Great Britain. the total slim paid iu wages for the year 1801 amounted to £4S,- 00 ,000 or an average of a;60 10s por capital for the total number employed, It is claimed that the vice prosidone of the Federation of Labor et Haverhill, Mass„ isa detective, and he has been workiug against the union for years. According to an officer of Scotland Yard there aro 100,000 pickpockets in London, and each one of them knows an American the moment he secs him. How Gordon Settled It. The artillery evinced their disgust (at their removal to Qunisan) by rofasing to fall in, and in a proclamation they threatened to blow the Chinese authorities away with the small guns. Their non-commissioned officers, as usual, all paraded and were sent for by Major tlord:n. who asked them the reason why the ,nen did nob fall in, and wrote the pro- clamation. They, of course, did not know; and on Major Gordon, telling them he would be obliged to shoat cue iu every five, they evicaed their objection to this pro- ceeding by a groan. Tho most prominent in this was a Corporal, who was dragged out. and a couple of infantry who was stand- ing by were ordered to load, and directed to shoat the mutineer, which one did with- out the slightest hesitation. The remaiuder were marched back and locked up for an hour, with the threat that if the name of the writer of this proclamation was not given, and if the men did not fall in before an hour had elapsed the arrangement of shooting one in five would be carried out. At the expiration of an hour the melt all fell in, and the name of the culprit, who had run away was given up. After that time we hadno trouble, the men were thoroughly cowed, and the nou- commissioned officers—the real ollen.lers- dared no longer foster sedition. It is to be regretted, however, that one life should have been sacrificed : but this caved many others which tuuet 1 -rove been lost if a stop had not been put to the independent way of the mon. Diamond Oat Diamond. I.'m one of the amulet elite noid at a sinal town in Russia a gen tlemon observed agypsy and a Je.w haggling over the sato of a horse. When the bargain was conclu.ictl the two separated, both evidently highly satisfied with the result. Full of curiosity as to the process of barter between two such shrewd characters the gentleman called the gypsy to him, and in- quired how much he had received for his ani- mal. The gypsy opened his hand and showed a ton -rouble note. "° But isn't that very cheap ?" " No," said the gypsy ; "hole dead lame." The gentleman then sought out the Jew, and said: " So you've given ton roubles for a lame horse?" The Israelite laid his finger on his nose. "Larne 1 He's as sound as you aro ; I saw he was badly shod, and only limped iu conse• quence." The inquirer returned to the gypsy, and, reported what the Jew said. The formerave a tremendous and sigaifi- cant wink, and whispered, "He's as lame as a two -legged stool. I had him badly shod on purpose to make them believe that that was the cause of hint limp- ing." When this was communicated to the Jew i he seemed for the moment taken aback, and hung, Ins head. Then, with a little sigh and a shrug of the shoulders, he said, quietly '" Ah, well ! It's all right. .It was' a bad ten -rouble note." Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorra LABATT'S LONDON ALE ASD STOUT, AWARDED GOLfl IEAL AT INTEI4IITIOML XIIIBITION. JAMAICA, 1891. Only fold Medal Awarded for Ale to Canadian or United States - Exhibitors. JOHN LABATT, LONDON, CANADA Dakota Cold. We don't seem to know much about cold weather here in Ontario. At Pembina, N. D., the thermometer stood at forty.eight do - grew below zero one day recently. At Spirit - wood Lake, in the same region, the ice is three feet thick, and in cutting it on cold days the saw stuck fast frequently, and had to be out out with an axe. The weather has been so cold that few people have been about the farming districts. The Sykeston. Gazette remarked the other day : " We com- municate once more with the outside world to -day, by means of an auger hole, made by the rotary plough through the drifts." And yet a Dakotan in Ontario recently was com- pIaining bitterly of the cold. He said that here fifteen degrees above zero, or oven thirty-five above, with the dampness, was more searching and uncomfortable than thirty-five below in Dakota A Jewish penman, of Vienna, once wrote 400 Hebrew letters on a single grain of wheat. At another time he wrote a Jewish gayer on the edge of a visiting card La grippe and diphtheria are ravaging the country districts of Nova Scotia. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castarie. 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