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DANGER JN A SHAKE. A LEARNED DISQUISITION ON DIS EASE TRANSFER. - ■> • Microbe. of Every Kind Find Lodgment In the Skin—Contact Even of the Clean* ly May Spread Contagion—Serious Ee ralts From Hand Clasping. Is it possible for one man to commu nicate disease to another by the shaking of hands? If this question be true, should the custom be abandoned or Should it be modified under medical instruction so as to minimize the danger? The existence of micro-organisms inimical to life and health has been es tablished beyond dispute. Dr. Breiter founds his thesis, recently printed in The Medical Record, on this hypothe sis. But his leading point, insisted up on with much force, is the danger which is hidden in the apparently harmless and sometimes pleasing custom of shak ing hands. He says: “That the surface of the human body is a very hotbed for the propagation of a great variety of micro-organisms Fuerbinger, Mittman, Bizzozero, Ma giora and Welch have elucidated most conclusively. It is certainly beyond the shadow of a doubt that in the presence of a predisposing factor and sometimes even without that the microbic diseases are ushered into existence by their indi vidual prototypes, this being essentially brought about by contact in some way of the two contingent forces. Modern surgery is founded on this principle. The carefulness with which we prepare “ our hands and surgical instruments be fore and after a surgical operation well exemplifies the importance of a famil iarity with its dangers in every sense. “We recognize that many of our mi crobio diseases, especially of the exan thematic type, eliminate their toxic ele ment very largely through the medium of the skin, which undergoes extensive exfoliation, disseminating the poison far and wide. Isolation is resorted to and enforced most rigorously, thereby check ing the spread of the disease, and then disinfectants lavishly used cause the de struction of the offending armies. In the era of scientific prophylaxis conse quent upon the introduction of the mi croscope, bacteriology and antiseptics we find a steady decline of epidemics either developing in the outer world or in our hospital wards. Yet accidental inoculations of tuberculosis, smallpox and vaccinia, as well as more horrible diseases, still exist and are but demon strations of either an unavoidable cause or a faulty observance of established data.” Dr. Breiter gives a thorough discus sion as to what may be the result of con tact of the hands. He declares that with men who are of.cleanly habits, but who have acquired disease and such as they would wish to hide from their fellow - * men, the specific bacillus of this disease has been found in filth collected from the hand. He has found tubercle bacilli in the dirt taken from the hand of the man suffering from tuberculosis, the Klebs-Loeffler microbe among cases of suspected diphtheria and had no doubt that the specific germs of every microbio disease may and would be found in mil lions on the surfaces of the hands if proper experimentation were made. He proceeds as follows: “Many victims of scarlet fever, both in the early and desquamative stages, especially the latter, are walking the streets of every large city ready to in graft upon the moist hand of any chance acquaintance the prolific virus of the disease. The same may be said of per sons with pulmonary tuberculosis, whose hands and handkerchiefs, through constant wiping of the mouth, are foul and saturated with the bacteria laden expectoration of the disease. Tubercu losis of the hand, the lesion large or small in area, often painless and un recognized as such for a long while and perhaps untreated, is by no means an infrequent occurrence. Scabies, we know, has a marked predilection for the hand. Need I mention others? Now whether these conditions are the result of hand to hand contact or not does not matter. The conditions themselves are dangerous elements, and it is the con sideration of such factors in the causa tion of disease that we are studying. , “Os course the mucous membrane serves as a better pabulum for the inva sion and development of micro organ- , isms, but. the skin is not absolutely neg ative in that respect, and if it were it would make little difference, as the two, skin and mucous membrane, are ; very often in close apposition with each , other. We know that the hand has car- ( ried bacteria to the mouthy disseminat ing contagion in that way. Typhoid fe ver, Asiatic cholera, diphtheria and oth- j er diseases are known to have been pro duced that way. Why search through , medical libraries for similar and per- , haps more conclusive evidence? The ( subject has passed the stage of novelty. ; So while we professional people are by . reason of our profession farced to invite and then to battle—-for we have antisep tics-—with these enemies, there is no reason why we should unnecessarily and < under the cloak of custom invite them i and then leave them to do their harm. j “Some may look upon this subject ( with derision. Nevertheless the truth is i this: No matter how small the percent age of evil consequences arising from c this universal- handshaking, the total number, in view of its extensiveness, i mjust necessarily be great The subject < is deserving of serious consideration. ( Conscientious physicians and surgeons f will accord it. ” Freddy's Fear. They pass a plate of cakes to Freddy at dessert He puts out his hand, hesi- < tates, then draws it back and begins to i weep. I 1 “What ara.you crying for?” asks his mother. “Because you are going to scold me ; when I choose the biggest one.”—Fi- j garo. AN EVERYDAY HEROINE. T»ie Country Maiden, the Wicked Stare Company and the raijor Mad . olrl . Four reckless persons had clambered into the stage, an old man, a middle aged woman, a young man and a tailor made girl At Fiftieth street a dress maker's little girl struggled in with a huge box. Town life was evidently new to her Her rosy cheeks announced country air to the least observing She held her money in her band. Looking dubiously about, she finally spied the money box and dropped in the coin. After this she waited expectantly Nothing occurred, however, and she began flushing and paling with nervous indecision. At last she resolutely stood up, attracted the driver’s attention and called to him: “How do 1 get my change? I put a quarter in the box, ” she asked. “Yese oughter a-handed it up, ” said the man. “Yese can’t git it now.“ “But it’s all I have, ” protested the girl. “Git it off the new passengers, ” yell ed the driver and turned away. It was all the money she had, but 'how could she “get it off the new pas eengers?*' Every one in the stage had become interested, but no one volun teered any advice. Two tears rolled down the rosy cheeks. The stage stopped, and an old lady scrambled in. As she took out her mon ey, a 5 cent piece, the tailor made girl leaned over to her “Willyon give me that for this little girl?" she asked. “She dropped ih a quarter by mistake, and the driver said the new passengers might make it up to her." , The old lady beamingly handed over the nickel She felt that the stage com pany was being rigidly but justly dealt with at last - . Then a man got in. This was harder for the tailor made girl, but she made the request again and handed’a second fare to the grateful young person from the country The whole stageful was now interested watching for a new pas senger as a spider watches for a fly. A woman waved desperately from down a side street for the stage to wait for her, but the driver passed on unheeding and exclamations of disgust arose. Another corner, and another smartly dressed girl got in. The new arrival did not seem at first to understand the request, and, flushing, the tailor made girl repeated it and secured one more of the precious 5 cent pieces. The little girl had reached her desti nation. “I am so much obliged, ” she murmur ed to the heroic maiden who had been taking up fares in h*er behalf. “I ought to get out here, so I guess I’ll let the other go. ” “No, no, you must not,” said the fair conductor, opening her purse. “Take this and I can get it from the next one who gets in. ” “You are awfully good,” murmured the unsuspicious little one with new tears in her eyes, and one of the men took the big box and handed it down to her when she had stepped out The stage rattled on and the tailor made girl looked unconcernedly out of the window. The next passenger was allowed to drop his fare unmolested into the box, unconscious- of the little comedy that had brought the others to gether in a common interest for a mo ment, and the stage company was still ahead of the game.—New York Sun. AN EVENING WITH DICKENS. How the Great Author and His People Can Be Studied by Literary Clubs. “For an evening with Dickens, ” ad vises Fannie Mack Lothrop, writing of “Evenings For Literary Clubs” in The Ladies’ Home Journal, “one of the items ’of the programme might be a sketch of his life condensed into about 200 words. The Dickens drawings by Charles Dana Gibson might be cut from The Journal and bung up before the au dience and the story of each character and incident illustrated told. The trial from ‘Pickwick’ could be arranged for individual reading or for a number to take part in it. A bright paper may be written on ‘The People of Dickens’ World.' In Dickens’ works there are 1,550 separate characters, enough to peo ple a whole village. “Some of Dickens’ poems have been set to musio—notably ‘The Ivy Green’ —and would make a pleasant feature. Anecdotes of Dickens might be given by ten or a dozen members, each giving one. These might be interspersed through the programme. A member with any cleverness in photography might make a series of Dickens’ lantern slides from pictures in standard editions of the novelist’s works and give a magic lantern entertainment. .The death of Paul Dombey would make a pathetic reading from ‘Dombey and Son.’ Mrs. Jarley’s waxworks, as described in ‘The Old Curiosity Shop,’ could be given with some of the members grouped as characters in the famous show and des ignated, as Little Nell did, with a pointer.” The “Gallery Gode." The frequenters of the lofty gallery of any theater have a good deal to do with the making or marring of any new play. Yet that is not how they acquire their title of “gods. ” As a matter of foot, the origin of the expression is this: Years ago Drury Lane theater had its ceiling painted to resemble a blue sky with clouds, among which white Cupids were flying in every direction. This ceiling extended over the gallery, whose occupants thus appeared to be very near heaven. Hence the expression arose of “gallery gods ” —London Answers. All Quiet There. “I’m glad to know, ” remarked Miss Cayenne, “that Mr. and Mrs. Jinkies are living far more happily than they were formerly “ “Indeed?" “Yes lam informed that they have not spoken to each other for weeks. ” London Tit-Bite. A BULLET in his heart? - Churtaa Mellon Hm Thn» Uvml Stnoe July 1, and Ha May Bac >ver. Charles Nelson’s heart wil cany weight to the end of its race with th ie. An ounce of lead is the handicap, and the moot dar ing of surgeons would shake his head if the South Side cyclist were to aak to be relieved of bis burden and allowed to run •ut his race like other men. If three skiagraphs of the injured man’s chest ean be trusted, the bullet which pierced his breast on the night of July 1 in Washington perk lodged in the septum of his heart—the fourfold partition of muscular fiber that divides the interior of that organ into auricles and ventricles, right and left There it throbs up and down 100,000 times a day, bidding defi ance with every pulsation to the law made of doctors that the touch of hostile metal to a man’s heart brings death. For Nel son has gone back to his boarding house, and except for the pain attendant upon the healing of the wound in the outer wall of his thorax, be has nothing to remind him of his excursion up to the gates of death. The three negatives all show the same dense, black spot, which, according to Dr. Otto Schmidt, who made them, marks the location of the bullet which crashed full into the sternum and lost itself in the masses of muscle that lie just beneath. The spot is not sharply defined and clear in outline as are the shadow records usual ly made by bits of metal when subjected to the X rays. The Irregularity, experts say, is certain evidence that the leaden pellet is imbedded in muscular tissue, whose movements blurred the image. In two of the skiagraphs, the front view and the back view, the shadow of the Bullet falls in the same place—almost exactly in the center of the thorax and almost mid way between the ends of the fourth pair of ribs. In the profile view of Nelson’s thorax the location of the black spot shows that the bullet penetrated 2J< inches of cartilage and muscle before it was stopped. Where it entered the thorax, the pericardium, which incloses the heart, touches the sternum, itself less than an inch in thickness. The only conclusion that can be drawn, the surgeons say, is that the other inch and a half of its path was plowed through the fibers of the heart. The extreme thickness of the ventricular walls of the heart is one half inch, while the walls of the auricles’are even thinner, so that unless it lodged in the fibers of the heart it would be impossible, the surgeons say, for the lead to plunge forward an inch and a half without puncturing one of the cavities of the heart. That it did puncture the wall of the heart at any point in its flight Dr. Hall of the Chicago hospital thinks unlikely because of the relatively small hemorrhage Nelson suf fered after the shooting and because of the position of the bullet in the skiagraphs—a little above a lateral line drawn through the heart. The theory that the bullet lodged in the pericardium fft equally untenable. Dr. Hall thinks—and the fact that the bullet did not puncture either of the lungs, which approach within an inch of the hole in the sternum, proves—that it did not encounter either of the side walls. About the only place that it could have pushed even an inch into the organ without rupturing the wall beyond repair is at the junction of the septa which separate the four chambers, and this Dr. B. 11. Babcock, the heart spe cialist, is inclined to regard as the proba ble point where the bullet lodged. In the normal heart the point where the septa join usually flutters up and down midway between the ends of the fourth pair of ribs, just where the bullet plunged into Nel son’s chest. Dr. D. J. Hamilton, the Scotch surgeon and pathologist, cites more than 50 cases where rupture of the heart walls did not result in immediate death. The most re markable of all and the one that approaches nearest to Nelson’s case is that of the prize fighter Poole, who was shot In the heart in New Jersey while battling with Baker in 1855. He recovered, to all appearances, in four days and wanted to finish the in terrupted contest, but 12 days later he col lapsed suddenly and died without recover ing consciousness.—Chicago Becord. The Union Jack. Hoisted at the mlzzentop of a ship at the same time as the flag of the lord high admiral at the fore, it signifies that the sovereign is aboard, white - an admiral of the fleet hoists it at the main. It is then property called the great union, as also when displayed ashore. When flown from a staff (hence called the jackstaff), it bo comes the union jack, a name under which the great union often passes. Again it forms the jack of the seamen, which is a flag bearing the colors of the union sur rounded by a border of white, one-fifth the breadth of the flag, and which, hoisted at the fore, becomes a signal for a pilot, and hence is often called the pilot jack. The origin of the word “jack” is un known. The meaning, as understood to day, is “something shown,’’ and in" this sense the application of the word is now limited to the union flag. Some have supposed it to be derived from the jack or jacque, the tunic worn in early time by meh at arms, those of Englishmen being decorated with the cross of St. George, which jackets, when not in use, were hung in rows, side by side, thus displaying the blood red cross which was at once their banner and their shield. Others regard the name as coming from that of the sov ereign James (Jacobus or Jacques), who was the first to hoist it as a national em blem. Whatever its derivation, its mean ing remains.—Good Words. The Marechai Nlel Rose. The Empress Eugenie gave the name Marechai Niel to the lovely rose which is so called. When General Niel returned from the Franco-Prussian war, where he had signally distinguished himself, a poor man presented him with a basket of lovely yellow roses. To perpetuate their beauty the general had a cutting struck from one of the blooms, and when a rose tree had grown from this he presented It to the Empress Eugenie. She was delighted with the dainty gift, but was much sur prised to learn that the rose was known by no distinctive name. “Ab,” she said, “I will give it a name. It shall be the Marecbal Niel.” Thustbeempressachlev ed two ends—named the flower and ac quainted the general with the fact that he had been raised to the coveted office of • marshal of Francer— Philadelphia Ledger. The Smiling Book Salesman. A customer dropped into a bookseller’s the other day and asked for a copy of “ The Lady of the Aroostook.” The clerk seemed to be in some doubt about tho title, but after a moment’s consultation with an other salesman he came forward and said blandly, “So tony we haven’t got ‘The Lady or the Booster, ’ but we can give you ‘The Lady or the Tiger.”’—Bookman. FraaSM A TALE, r . Aa Individ sal Who b Not a Kloodlkor Tells a Story. ,“I*ve been hearing a great deal about the cold weat ier that will drop down ou Klondike miguty soon now,” remarked a western editor tn Washington on business of his own, “and I am sure they are going to have a dreadful time of it, some of them, before the spring freshets, but I am •uro not a man among them will have a aadder expert* neo with the cold than I did in the winter of 1870. I was a printer in St. Louis in the spring of that year, with a little experience in editing a paper, and there waa a chance for roe to go to a new mining town that started up about 60 miles from Denver and start a paper, or, rather, keep the one going that had been started there by the chap who wanted me to oome out and join him. “There was adventure In it, and I was younger then than lam now. So it waa that in May I was the editor in chief of The Blue Gulch Gazette, a weekly journal of civilization, as we proudly announced in our motto line, We did nicely all that summer, and I enjoyed It, though I was told It wasn’t so pleasant climatically In winter. One of the attractions of the office was a ‘devil’ that we had got from the newsboy gang -lu St. Louis, and be was the sharpest and brightest little cum in the state of Colorado. He was about 14 years old, and be wouldn’t weigh over 60 pounds, but he was all nerve and muscle. “Well, the first snowfall was in October early, and the weather whacked around to all points of the compass for the next six weeks. Then it settled steady, and the week before Christmas it looked as if we were going to have a nice holiday Week, but we were doomed to disappointment, for three nights before the day the snow be gan falling and a terrific blizzard swept up through tho high walled valley in which our town was located. Thirty-six hours later, when we got up in the morn ing, the town was snowed under, and there was no getting around at aIL I sent Snips out to see if he could bore through, and he came back in half an hour with something hot for us to eat, Snips and I occupying a back room in the office and boarding around. He told me he bad seen two or three people at the restaurant who had burrowed through a block or two, as the snow was light, but how deep it was none of them knew, as it was above the roofs of the tvso story houses, the highest we bad. “Then a brilliant idea came to Snips. “ ‘There’s our smokestack, major,’ he said. ‘lt’s 47 feet by the measure and just about the size for me to pull myself up through by them wires inside of it, just like I did when we fixed that guy. Lei me swarm up to the top of it and see where the snow comes to. I can do it easy.’ “Well, gents,” concluded the western editor, “I let him go, and he never came back. I guess he must have fallen off of the top some way ahd got smothered in the snow or frozen to death or something. Anyway, when the snow thawed down in a rain that followed in a couple of weeks, we found tho poor little fellow In the pure white snow and as black as the ace of spades from the soot that he had got on himself climbing up in that smokestack.” —Washington Star. Turkish Artillery. Artillery, which was very numerous, was excellently horsed and gunned, but poorly trained. Six cannon, 80 men and 60 horses were the complement of a bat* tery. The guns were 7% centimeters (8 inch) Krupp-Mantell, all in first class con dition, cased and clean, the limbers and gun carriages of the ordinary, pattern. The shell weighed 12 and the shrapnel 14 pounds, fired by time or percussion fuses. The horses were for the most part from Bussla or Hungary and ran bigger than those of the cavalry. The men, recruited from all parts of the empire, did the man* ual part of their work well, but there was very little technical skill, and a battery had rarely more than one trained artillery officer. Three batteries of horse artillery armed with nine pounders were attached to the cavalry division. These, however, were short of spare horses, so the gunners sat on the limbers and carriages. Accord* ingly the speed was not very great. There were also three batteries of mountain guns on mules, first class weapons, but the gun nets very slow. Eighteen howitzers came up to Serflje, but were never brought any farther, as there was no need for them. Taking it all round, the artillery, un like the cavalry, was a very strong arm, but like the cavalry it was never made sufficient use of—the best work being done by the corps artillery, which acted under the orders of Biza Pasha, who frequently used to borrow divisional batteries when he had need of them.—“ With the Turkish Army In Thessaly,” by Clive Bigham. Charles A. Dana. Charles A. Dana, the editor of the New York Sun, is on the high road to complete recovery from his recent severe illness, which was the result of overwork on his return from Bussla. He Is now 78, and bls father lived to the age of 87. All his life Mr. Dana has taken intelligent care of bls health, exercising and living well, but on plain and wholesome food. When he lived in New York, over 20 years ago, he used to visit an up town riding academy at very early hours, even before daylight in winter time, when he could have the arena altogether to himself, and ride furiously until he had tired three or four horses in succession. He would jump off a horse going at full speed, run alongside and leap into the saddle again like a circus per former, and oould even stand upon the saddle while going at a gallop, and at that time he must have been at least 60 years old.—San Francisco Argonaut. His Answer. A New Orleans man who wanted to be a policeman and made preparation for ths civil service examination found that he had studied along tho wrong lines. He determined to make use of his newly ac quired knowledge, however, when be came to a question that struck him as absurd. The question was, “If a bullet is dropped in a well and it takes five seconds for it to strike the water, how tax la it fiom thetopof the well to the surface of the water?” The candidate answered: “Heathen mythology says that when Jupi ter kicked Vulcan out of heaven it took him 47 days and 9 nights to fait If ao, ' bow far la heaven from Kosciusko, Miss.?” —Exchange. A Sensible Folleeman. A St. Louis policeman, who had a war rant of arrest against a woman for alleged assault and battery, refused to imprison her when he found it was directed against a lady in the eighty-sixth year of her age. 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