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A QIEEIt STORY BTIOTO IIA K
LEUf.
Some Odd Sort of Beast Sus
pected of Selecting a
Human Abode,
IIIS BEHAVIOR THEREIN AS DESCRIBE
ED BY THE SUFFERER'S PHYSICIAN.
Harlem lias a sensation in the per
son of a negro girl named Hattie
Brown, who is supposed to be suf
fering from the presence of a live
animal of some kind, as yet un
known, in her intestines. A repor
ter of The World called last evening
on her physician, Dr. Dcmarest, of
I\o. 330 East One Hundred and
Twenty-fourth street, and learned
the particulars of the case,
which he had gleaned from the girl
herself, and from a careful examina
tion made on \\ ednesday morning,
lie was called in early this week to
attend Hattie, who is described as
being about twenty-five years old,
ffurly educated, and having a slight,
figure and preposesing features. She
resides at No. 433 East One Hun
dred and Twentieth street with her
mother and aunt, and the family
are all dress makers.
Between five and six years ago
Ilattie attended a picnic, and dur
ing the day drank some water from
a running stream, and now, she says
romembers noticing that she swal
lowed some object of appreciable
size, though it was forgotten almost
immediately afterward, and only re
called when it was supposed" that
some living creature had taken up
its abode in her body. Not long af
ter this occurrence her health began
to fail, and a disease of a curious na
ture fastened upon her, which ad
vanced with slow but certain steps
for several years, until she was final
ly incapacitated for work. She was
gradually wasted away, grew weak,
and suffered apparently from a lack
of vitality, and finally remembering
the incident related above, concluded
—which is nothing new as a supersti
tion among negroes—that she was
suffering from the presence of some
living thing in her intestines. Her
theory was confirmed before long by
her unwelcome tenant giving unmis
takable evidence of its presence by
periodically emitting distinct sounds
and moving itself from place to place.
The girl, having conceived the idea
that the parasite had its likes and
dislikes, and was aroused to greater
activity, causing her consequent pain
by her eating or drinking certain
things, and consulting her own com
fort as well as that of the parasfte,
regulated her diet accordingly. The
object, whatever it may, be at length
grew to such size as to be plainly dis
cernible in her emaciated state as it
shifted its position from place to
place in the intestines, but if touch
ed or attempted to be grasped, as
fhe had several times tried to grasp
it, il Mould fly to the other side of
the body, its course being plainly
discernible through the abdominal
walls. The sufferer attempted sev
eral times to grasp it in such a way
as to be able to strangle it, but was
always unsuccessful. The voice of
the creature was variously described
as resembling the barking of a puppy
and a low, gliding sound, but when
heard by the physician resembled the
‘‘kcr-chunk’'which accompanies the
decent of a bullfrog into a puddle.
The case inis been treated several
times as one of simple tenia or tape
worm, that being the natural conclu
sion reached by physicians whom she
has heretofore consulted from her
statement of the difficulty, but she
now says that she withheld the
truth from them and refused to sub
mit to an examination through fear
that they would desire to perform an
operation upon her. The remedies
usually prescribed for tape-worm
were given her, but were never accor
ded a fai' - trial, and her case went
from bad to worse. Liquor in large
quantities was tried in the effort to
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 31, 1877.
destroy the supposed interloper, and
in the hope of reviving her shattered
system. It was observed that enor
mous quantities of liquor would
have no effect upon the girl, mHio
was entirely unused to them, but
would apparently stupefy the para
site for a time, laudanum and opium
having the same effect. But M’hen
the effects had passed away the pa
rasite’s movements M'ere conducted
with such increased vigor ,and its ree
tlcness caused the patient such intense
pain, that their use was discontinued.
When she takes food the parasite
comes up close to the pit of the stom
ach, and she claims that she can dis
tinctly ‘Heel it swallow.”
Dr. Demarcst says he saw with his
own eyes and heard with his own ears
the movements and voice of the inter
loper. A caieful examination failed
to detect any signs of any other troub
le or disease about the girl, and if
this trouble were removed he thinks
she would be an exceptionally healthy
woman Her appetite is not greater
than that of an ordinarily healthy
person, the only thing wrong about
her being an extreme irregularity of
the bowels. He is firmly convinced
that the girl lias a living animal of
some sort in her intestines and
equally sure that it is not a tape
worm. A case so unusual, of course,
only leaves room for “expectant”
treatment, as it is technically called,
at least until something further is
developed. He does not, however,
entertain very sanguine hopes of
beneficial results from medicine, but
thinks that it will be necessary to
open the abdomen and cut the intes
tines in order to remove the intru
der. This operation, which is an
exceedingly delicate one, has been
frequently performed with satisfac
tory results in other difficulties, and,
Dr. Demurest thinks, can undoubt
edly be used as a means of settling
the question of “What is it ?” and of
saving the girl's life, if she can be
induced to consent to it. :Y. Y.
World.
IVintinjj and Journalism in Chi
na.
A Chinese printing office isagreater
curiosity than one would think. The
alphabet numbers way into the thou
sands, and a cap and lower case goes
all the way round the inside of a two
story building and half way up the
roof. It takes an apprentice twenty
years to learn the case, and then he
has to use a step ladder to get at the
higher branches. A case was pied
once in Canton, and it took five days
to remove the type from the form of
the foreman. They punctuate wher
ever they can drop a dot. without re
gardtothe prospective. When the
editor coins a word the printer whit
tles out anew character with his
jack-knife. The journeymen set by
the square foot, and neyer belong to
a union. They do their presswork
by hand, and use boxing gloves to
nk the type. They have one paper
in the empire a thousand years old,
and the bound volumes half fill a pa
goda. It is rumored that Bennett
has started to edit that venerabla pa
per. The editor’s head is responsible
for all items published in the paper,
and is taken off whenever an article
of news is published. Not an editor
has been beheaded in China for the
last five hundred years. The Chi
nese have just invented a twenty-five
cylinder press for printing tea chests,
with wheih they are able to print one
a week. —Ex.
A Valuable Receipt.
We consider the following receipt
of such value, that we transfer it to
our columns from ihe .Stockton (Cal
ifornia) Herald :
I herewith append a recipe which
has been used, to my knowledge, in
hundreds of cases. It will prevent or
cure the small pox, though tliep it
tingsare filling. When Jenner dis*
coverd cow pox i \ England, the
world of science hurled an avalanche
of fame upon his head ; but when the
most scientific school of medicine in
the world—thato.' Caris —published
this recipe as a panacea for small pox,
it passed unheeded ; it is as unfailing
as fate, and conquers in every in
stance. It is harmless when taken
by a well person. It will also cure
scarlet fever. Here is the :eeeipt as
I have used it, and cured my children
of scarlet fever ; here it is, as I have
used it, and cured my children of
scarlet fever ; here it is as I have nsed
it to cure small pox ; v hen learned
physicians said the patient must die,
it cured • Sulphate of zinc, one
grain ; fox glove (digitalis), one
grain ; half a teaspoonful of sugar;
mix with two tablespoonful of water.
' Y lien thoroughly mixed, add four
ounces of water. Take a spoonful
every hour. Either disease will dis
appear in twelve hours. For a child
smaller doses, according to age. If
communities would compel their
physicians to use this, there would be
no need of pest houses. If you value
advice and experience, use this for
that terrible disease.
The German Government has ap
propriated four and a half millions
of marks for additional buildings to
the University of Stratsbnrg, which
are to accommodate 1,500 students.
“75 LIFE WORT*II LI VINO? ”
OP. IS IT ALTOGETHER VAIN ?
Sitting alone, in the evening gloom.
Sitting alone, in my silent room,
Watching the leave* falling, sadly aud
slow,
Watching the clouds as they come
and go,
O'er me comes a thought of misgiving,
A sail thought it is—is life worth living!
Ah! life doth seem like a nightmare
dream,
Troubled at best, full of unrest;
t vain ? I think again ; no, not al
together vain.
So sad to think the forms M T e cherish.
Like those dead leaves, so soon will
perish,
And the eyes that beam so brightly
Sxm will be dim and unsightly,
And the lips that smile so lightly
In grim death will soon close tightly.
Is life worth living? then comes the thought,
Are all we live for, then, blit naught?
Must the hopes (united with our hearts)
be blighted?
But as I think it over again, once more,
Once more again, life is not altogether
vain.
And as I sit by my window here,
Viewing the scenery brown and drear,
The autumn winds, they come to me
With congenial sympathy,
And as the leaves are falling, falling,
Comes again that thought appalling,
Is life worth living? do the winds say?
We are passing like they so sadly away ?
Had I forgot that they speak not,
Or that the zone is not known
Where they are found, or whither they
arc bound ?
Yet, could they speak, they would say
again,
“Life is not altogether vain.”
Is life not vain ? then tell me "why,
Like those dead leaves, we fade and die
Is life not vain, w<?fe we not lx>rn,
(As the poet says) but “made to
mourn?”
Is life worth living ? any sweet realities
giving ?
Perhaps I’m too fmul of this feeling
despond,
But t’was said of old that “in each
soul
A bell of dole hangs reach/ to be
tolled .”
Ah ! me, but thinking it over agaiu,
“Life is not altogether vain.’’
Could life be vain, when there’s a
heaven,
When there’s a God by M’hom ‘tis giv
en ?
Could life be worthless when there are
legions
Of angels watching us from regions
Of heavenly bliss? Dear life is sweet;
I feel, I know, it is no cheat.
But we must svait longer and grow strong-
er;
Lre’loag we will hear * heavenly dryer
Saying, “Come up, my. child, thy place
is higher.”
Life is worth living, then, t'will be
plain
Life not be altogether rain.
October, 1870. Doi.lie.
The New Uarviiai.
Mr. Frederick Douglas, the new
U. S. Marshal for the District of
Columbia, m t lio succeeds Marshall
Sharp, appealed at the Court House
this morning about 9 o'clock, and
going immediately to the Marshal’s
office, was received by Col. Philips,
the retiring deputy marshal, and
they spent a few minutes in conver
sation. 31 r. Douglas said iie would
lika to sec the bailiffs and others at
tached to the offices, and they being
sent for, Mr. Philips introduced each
one by name, taking occasion to re
mark upon their efficiency in their
respective positions, and expressed
the hope that the new marshal
would find it unnecessary to remove
them. Mr. Douglas had a kindly
word for each one of them, and inti
mated that he was not in favor of
removing good men from positions.
Not having received his commission
he did not, of course qualify by ta
king the oath luid tilling his bond,
and he left the building before ten
o’clock
THE DEPUTY MARSHAL.
Of course there has heen some con
jecture as to who will bo the deputy
to take the place of Col. Philips, and
this question was discussed by Col.
Perry Carson and other prominent
colored men in and about the build
ing to-day. It became known before
long that .Mr. L. P. Williams, who
for many years has been one of the
assistant clerks in the office of the
clerk of the court, had on
Saturday been tendered the position,
and that he hail finally concluded to
accept it. This selection is regarded
generally as the host which could
have been made, and by it -Mr,
Douglass has crippled what opposi
tion there was to his appointment.
With members of the bar and others
who have hud business at tlie clerk’s
office Mr. Williams had become a
great favorite, and lie possesses the
respect and esteem of the bench, bar,
and the public at large. Mr. \Y ll
liams came here from Indiana after
the close of the war, having served
in the Union army in the South and
Southwest, and settled down here,
making the District his permanent
residence, purchasing property and
erecting a residence in the county,
opposite Howard University grounds.
In the office of clerk of the court he
has gained experience which will be
valuable to him in his new positions,
and, besides, he is a good business
man, and possesses much executive
ability, lc also become known that
the sureties on the bond uf Marshal
Douglass would be Columbia Alex
ander, of this city, and George Hill,
Jr., of Georgetown.
MR. DOUGLAS LIVES BOND AND
QUALIFIES.
About one o'clock Mr. Douglas
returned to the City Mail, and (tiie
Circuit Court being then in recess)
accompanied by Marshal Sharp,
Mr. John 11. Cook (of the bar), and
Messrs. Columbus Alexander and
George Hill, jr., he at once repair
ed to the consultation room, where
Mr. Douglas, with Messrs. Alexan
der and Hill, executed a bond for
$20,000 for the faithful performance
of tho duties of the office of marshal
of the District of Columbia by Mr.
Douglas. This bond being approv
ed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Doug
las, standing, took the usual oath
of office by affirmation. Mr. Doug
lass immediately returned to the
Marshal’s office, and Dr. Sharp
turned over the office to him.
THE OFFICE SEEKERS ON HAND.
A large crowd assembled in the
ante-rooms of the Marshal’s office,
the most of whom were in the inter
est of themselves or friends for office
and the anxiety to serve the public
seemed so great that Mr. Douglas
soon found what it was to have pat
ronage. He immediately sent for
Mr. L. P. Williams, and the oath
and bond having been taken that
gentlemen entered on his duties as
deputy marshal. To those who
came with letters Mr. Douglas said
hut few words, remarking generally
that lie would not do anything with
out consideration.
Mr. James IS harp, who has for
several years been a deputy in the
office, informed Mr. Douglas that
he desired to vacate his position, but
will remain in the office until his
successor is appointed, with a view
of giving any assistance in his pow
er,
ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS
Mr. Douglas asked on entering the
office was as to whether the bailiffs
gave bond, and receiving a negative
answer sa.d they should, and lie re
quested the deputy (Mr. Williams)
to arrange for an interview in pri
vate with this afternoon.— Washing.,
ton Star.
One hundred and Sixty Millions is
the sum justly due and owing her
creditors by tlie city of New York.
The Free Trade party of England
is to make a great effort this year to
extend its principles throughout the
world.
John Sims, colored appointed stew
ard at the White House, lias given
bonds for $20,000.
llev, John Moore lias been ap
pointed Bishop, at St. Augustine
Florida.
In the vicinity of Tampa they
have corn waist high, and watermel
ons and other vines are in bloom, and
the inhabitants expect to cat mutton
corn by May.
Forty years ago the average daily
number of pins made in England for
use and export was twenty million.
Now it is fifty million.
There are from ten to twenty thou
sand men and women in New Orle
ans out of employment— out of
work and out of bread.
A summons to answer for the false
imprisonment of Thomas Biggins,
an alleged lunatic, was served on
General Grant. Biggins claims
SIOO,OOO damages.
Scene in Texas. Hotel table.—
“Good morning, stranger ; it looks
like rain Stranger—“l think
not.” A shot is heard, and the
stranger is rolled out of the back
door. Moral—Texas is a fine graz
ing eountry-
Ilere is a chance for some of our
M. DFs : “J. F. Burtholf, of Char
lottes' Harbor, Florida, offers five
hundred acres of desirable orange
land near the water and a yearly
guarantee of SSOO to an experienced
physician.”
Edward Wells, a negro, who mur
dered William O’Brien, in Burke
county, was taken from jail at
Waynesboro and lyclied by a crowd
of unknown men. Wells confessed
that he murdered O'Brien to ob
tain possession of his goods and mon
ey.
A trial recently took place at
Pestli, Hungary, of an apparatus in
vented by a Hungarian officer, for
enabling a horse to swim a long dis
tance with a rider without sinking.
The officer crossed the Danube at
its broadest part, with a rapid cur
rent running, and the horse's head
was kept up handsomely.
The Erie Kail way Company has
just completed an inventory of its
effects, real and personal It was be
gun two years ago, and fills twenty
large volumes, the mere binding of
which cost $250, sl2 each. It is so
minute that the number of spikes of
the 1,800 miles of track is given,
which is 21,000. There are 250 lo
comotives and seventy different
kinds of iron in the tr ick. A full in
ventory of the Grand Opera House,
with its theatrical wardrobe, scenery,
etc., is also given. The cost of ta
king the inventory was over SIOO,-
000.
The value of trees, in a sanitary
point of view, in large and overcrowd
ed cities, can scarcely be overestima
ted. Apart from the sense of relief
and coolness which they impart, their
value as purifiers of the atmosphere
is almost incredible. It has been
calculated that a good sized elm,
plane or lime tree will produce
7,000,000 leaves, having u united
area of 200,000 square feet. The in
fluence of such a targe smfaceni the
absorption of deleterious gases and
the exhalation of oxygen must there
fore be of benefit iu overcrowded and
and unhealthy districts.
The colored people of Raleigh, N.
C\, have resolved that the future
condition and happiness of their
race is not assured in the “political
sphere,” and they haye called a con
vention at Raleigh, on the first Mon
day in May, to devise some plan for
bettering their condition, bv coloni
zation or otherwise.
Zachariah W. llavnes, a deaf
mute, was married in August, 1874,
to Laura, a daughter of Chang Bunk
er, one of the noted twins. Chang
had nine children, seven of whom
are living. Three of them are deaf
mutes. Mr. llavnes is a teacher m
the institute for the deaf, dumb,
and the blind in Raliegh.
The poplar forest in the region of
country north of Lewistown, Me ,
have been cut down for timber for
the manufacture of paper. These
forests have been considered by the
farmers as almost woithless, a great
deal of the wood or lumber hardly
paying for the cutting and hauling,
but now brings a high price.
The oldest vessel in Portsmouth
harbor is Nelson’s Victory, |the only
vessel which the sentiment of the
nation will never allow to be broken
up. She is one hundred and eleven
years of age. She is not the first of
the name, a previous Victory, as
great, but not so fortunate as her
self, having been lost at sea with
1,000 hands.
A Sweed is preaching in the Sweed
ish language to twenty-live hundred
of his countrymen in Mr. Moody’s
chivch at Chicago, the sermons be
ing literal translation of Mr. Moody’s
discourse in different parts of the
country. The preacher was con
verted in Sweden, it is said, by read
ing Mr. Moody’s sermons, and re
sembles Mr. Moody very closely in
appearence. An edition of Mr.
Moody’s sermons has been published
at Constantinople in the Armenian
language, and a Spanish edition has
also been discovered.
A Rem ark abie Woman — The
New York correspondent of the Bos
ton Jornal says :
“Miss Pinkey, who lives in up
per New York, is regarded as the
wealthiest woman in the city. She
is quite advanced, and her moth
er, who lives with her, is nearly
ninety. She owns six thousand city
lots, transacts her own business, and
keeps her affairs in her own hands.
The two women live together in a
I large stone cottage, and live in the
1 simplest and plainest style. She
gave the other day some interesting
statements about real estate in New
York: ‘The city owes $131,000,000.
There are $13,000,000 of unpaid as
sessment taxes to-day. Against my
property there are $400,000 assess
ments and taxes. A large portion
of these assessments will be paid.
The owners of property prefer to
let the city take the lots, and trust
to their ability to redeem them when
times are better. Twelve per cent,
is the interest demanded by the citv
after the first year. I have held my
property in this way. Once in ten
years there is a rise in real estate.
Then I sell ofF enough to clear mv
property, and hold on to the bal
ance. ’ ”
Anew light that promises in a
large measure to surpersede gas in
the streets has of late been success
fully applied in several places in
Germany and France. Sticks of
charcoal surmounted by an isolating
matter, which slowly melts away, are
consumed by electricity. With two
of these electric candles, it is claim
ed, a light equal to that of 100 gas
jets may be thrown on a street.—
The cost is about half thatof gas,
and the light is of the best quality.
It also lias the recommendation that
there is no danger whatever of fire
from the electric candles. The new
light has been introduced in forty
large France, and is
destined, many believe, to be soon
the only light that will be used in
large rooms, public places, and man
ufactories. Outdoor work can be
carried on by night as well as by day
by means of the new light, since ft
has almost a sunlike clearness and in
tensity. A German paper, speaking
of the invention, says : “We are ev
idently on the eve of as great a revol
ution in lighting as when gas super
seded oil lamps and tallow candles.”
In a temperance address at his
Hippodrome in Philadelphia Bar
numsaid; “I will undertake, and
give bonds for the fulfillment of the
contract, that if the city of Phila
delphia will stop selling liquor and
give me as much as was expended
here for liquor last year, to run the
city next year, I will pay all city ex
penses ; no person living within her
borders shall pay taxes ; there shall
be no insurance on property : a good
dress and suit shall be given to every
poor boy, girl, man and woman ; all
the educational expenses shall be
paid ; a barrel of flour shall be giv
en to every needy and worthy per
son ; and I will clear half a million
or a million of dollars by the opera
tion.*’
I xsmashable.—The Queen’s state
saloon on the Great Western Rail
way, England, is made entirely of
boiler plate, and so lined and padded
that if the carriage were to go over
an embankment and roll to the bot
tom the chances are that the occu
pants would escape uninjured. Why
are nut all the railroad cars made
equally safe 1 I’he Queen is not |e
culiar in disliking the idea of being
smashed or burned to death.
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Fahlon Xole*.
Ball dresses arc now studded with
blue steel stars and ornaments to
match.
Silver mistletoe berries with grot n
foliage make up the fashionable
wreath.
Wreaths of trailing flowers are worn
over the shoulders en banddiere.
The new beads of Venetian
are worn as headings to fpnges and
galloons. The effect is novel and
beautiful.
The diamonds worn by Mine.
Mu sard at the opera ball the other
uiglit when placed in a row measur
ed nearly nine yards.
The newest cloak is called the
“Nemesis,"’ which costs so much
that husbands arc continually growl
ing.
Dculli of Bill Arp
Fort Worth Daily Democrat :
“Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the man
who furnished the witticisms and
odd sayings which Charles 11. Smith
prepared and published some years
ago, was accidentally killed near
tiiis place (Decatur, Texas,) last Mon
day, March sth. He fell from a
wagon loaded with corn, the wheels
passing over his neck, killing him
instantly. When he left home in
the morning he told his family h
would never ugain be permitted to
enter the house alive, and strange
to say, lie was within fifty yards of
the house, on his return, when the
sad accident occurred which termina
ted so fatally. He was a reinarka
man—perfectly illiterate, but replete
with original iJcas and witty savings
he rarely ever spoke without saving
something pithy.
Over 4,000,000 sewing machines
have been sold since they were first
introduced in 1853.
Treasurer Renfroe has concluded
an arrangement with the Fourth
National Bank of New York by
which the temporary loans required
by the State during the year will be
made at six per cent, per annum—
lowest rate since the war.
The Court of Claims, a few days
ago, rendered a decision announc
ing as the unanimous opinion of the
court that for any and all sums of
money paid by the government offi
cials to and individual under mista
ken view of the law, the government
has a legal right of action against
that individual, and may compel
him to pay back the money, regard
less of the well settled rule an.l
privilege that, as between individuals
under similar circumstances, there
can be no such recovery.
A farmer in Douglass county was
taken ill in the month of June, last
year, after the crop had been plan
ted and there was no one to carry on
the the farm but his wife. She un
der took the work, and plowed and
hoed the crop—making 770 pounds
ot lint cotton, thirteen wagon loads
of corn, 500 bundles of fodder, 50
bushels of potatoes, and 40 gallon
of sorghum. In the midst of the
busy season she had to drive her
husband to town for medical atten
tion.
About twenty years ago a .some
what abusive opponent of the Bap
tists was publishing a book ,v r ain.-
them at the office of the printer of
the acts of the Mississippi Legislaten.
By some inadvertence the sheets got
mixed, and before the confusion w.t
detected several copies of the acts
were so bound as to exhibit the . fol
lowing astonishing piece of legisla
tion, the grand result of a thirty
years’ war against immersion : “jV
it enacted by the Senate and Hous.
of Representatives of the Statt- of
Missouri, That bap means to put un
der the water, and tizo means to pull
out,”
Horned Men in Africa. —Capt.
J. S. Hay, an African traveler, pre
sented a paper before the British As
sociation in which he described a
tribe of human beings whom he had
found in Western Africa many having
horns. This peculiartv was coir
fined entirely to males : and the hor
ny growth seemed to be of the char
acter of excrescences growing from
the cheek bones and projecting for
ward upon either side of the nose.
The natives themselves consider the
horns as undesirable deformities, and
in some cases adopt every means with
which they are acquainted to stop
their growth, though their efforts m
this direction are unavailing. A sup
ply of horned skulls lias been sent for
with a view to investigate more care
fully the nature and causes of this
curious abnormality.
I’iie principal hot spring of the
group in Uncompatigrc Park, Col
orado, is described as a round basin,
fully fifteen feet in diameter, ai t
five feet deep, in the bottom of
which, and surrounding a shelf or
ledge four feet wide, is an inner or
deeper circular hole, about seven
feet in diaiucterand twelve feet iii
depth ; full to the brim of clear,
limpid water—seventy-six to eighty
degrees in temperature, and con
stantly bubbling up and steaming, mi
that it can, on a cold day, be detec
ted miles away. An underground
outlet allows the water to escape to a
lower hit of ground, where it again
bursts forth in several s rings. The
water contains traces of iron, soda and
salt ; and is quite palatable \i!kb
drunk hot, ret mg as cathartic.