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[11 OF THE 01 fiimatic Variations Do Not Alfect Internal Conditions. MAN'S NORM* LTEMPERATURE When T.ke" Und.r whether 0n * Llve! ,, In the Tropics. S^e Arctic Regions or Record Fever Temperatures. normal temperature of a human T!l e generally given as 98.U de¬ is must be slight¬ ^I'alified. but the statement qualified. It is the normal temper ly ‘ taken by placing the ther¬ ature ff ben mometer under the tongue or in the armpit ° r the groin. lie "surface temperature of from the 00 head, de hands or abdomen varies to 93 degrees or even lower. That s to . the internal regions may go up 102.2 degrees, that being the average t o[ the blood circulating in the .Land some other organs. called the normal liuthSd degrees is temperature of a human being, and it Lgn’t L matter whether he Greenland, lives in the el . t of Sahara or in ac eordiug to u writer in the Technical World. Awake or asleep, at work or L s t loafing, a man’s temperature re¬ mains practically at this level. When it varies more than the fraction [of a degree It is because the heat reg¬ elating mechanism is disarranged by Lome disease or by Excessively abnormal high conditions of sort measures of beat may be borne for several min¬ utes by an individual without raising his temperature more than a fraction of a degree. Persons who sometimes are styled human salamanders have given exhibitions of their ability to stand high temperatures. There is «u authentic case recorded of Martinez, the so called French sala¬ mander, a baker by trade, who exposed I himself to high temperatures from boy¬ hood. He remained in an oven erected ,in the Tivoli gardens for fourteen min¬ utes when the temperature in it was 338 degrees. His pulse on entering ns seventy-six a minute and had [reached 130 when he came out He [often duplicated this performance. Chamouni, a celebrated Russian sal¬ amander, who called himself “the in jcombustible," used to go' into an oven and stay while a leg of mutton was ■roasted there, not coining out-until the .meat was well done. lie eventually lost his life in one of these perform [anees. Fever is a rise of temperature above the normal level. This rise is seldom [beyond 106 degrees. Mental and nerv¬ ous influences may so act for a time as to disorder the control of the ther [motaxie nerve center and cause fever. It is interesting to note some of the [high temperatures which are on med¬ ical record as having actually occurred jin 'London certain records diseases. the Guy’s of hospital iu ca%e a hyster¬ ical woman afflicted with tuberculosis of one lung who showed 120 degrees. At a meeting of the Association of [American Physicians in 1895 Dr. Ja jcobi of New York reported a patient In whom fever reached the almost iu redlble figure of 118 degrees F. This ase occurred In a hysterical fireman w ho had suffered a severe injury from a fall. In the discussion which followed the report of this case among the members of the association Dr. Welch of Balti¬ more referred to a condition of hyper thermy that had come to his knowl ?e in which the temperature was ecerded as 171 degrees F. Of course ®h exceedingly high temperatures are of only short duration or death vould ensue. (:f Is not th.e only disturbance " llch ma F ft, Tr temperature. Certain onditions, especially those due to dis ases llke tuberculosis, acute alcohol *>“. melancholia, convalescence from wT* a so ,)0,son,ng forth, may from various the drugs, m to become cause bodily “ subnormal. In , Rrs and surgical shock also origi tip same effect. Starvation al js induces a gradual fall. temperatures are always dan S ’ ® nd U1| less a reaction quickly . s - aid of relief tr, uInation measures, a » he low may be expected. "ay es t recorded during life that be regarded as reliable Is ^ bv u,; one th£j te i.u ffy in r rpg,s,erod 84 degrees F. leath n ! ue<1 tlie following The v however day. Mreme 1 - ran withstand hreme, nwre rPadil v <h: "' it can [ - enter l,efore the regulating [ ther mes dis orderod, and so. ! th " SS be,Ug . aategl, rath k- equal, freezing to DOt ' is conira «n in cold cli sunstroke is in warm. A S (* d t0 Accompany Her noted f man ' yric - who »y as welt s °P ran °. 1 no ]on,, e Ilail 'eless here, as she [ M i tl h f* >‘ , r fore the public, devel-j j gout of yeais a habit of sing Sfflpanj np ' 0ue wight at a small Nmntiv’ , ’""ir as ked to sing, „ she IIM tet1, and * lor hostess went i °, 0 Les the Ger- ! ah critic " smann, "Herr *° " as Present, and said: \iJ. r "y ^^mRtankr will " you J ’° U accom “Wtth *“ Pasu,a Where ag?” - Is she go >■ to sing. ■ °* Pard, m otk Trib hot there.”—New 'Une. ®^-Yoiik An Easy RerT >edy. ^ar as / 11,11,1 , I” 1 as ' r s the 1)1,1 salarv C08t ,ne ° tookke, of mv afford'' * 1*0 IV r,., 1 * ■* ' !n ,lnt . . ,s ln °re than tkenj^v'ii *Ue*ende ' 1,1 ~T\ ell, discharge one ' ^hat Blatter. the - the heart rue* REAL THREAD OF LIFE. A Tiny Wisp of Tissue Imbedded the Heart’s In Walls. According to tradition, it was Atro pos. the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, who'slit the thin spun i ife a » d many of Miltons readers hu\e wondered mav whether there was any thieud in the anatomy of man tin severance of which would be iminedi ately ratal. Injuries to the brain and heart in both of which the principle of Ide has been supposed to reskD may be survived for shorter or lom-er periods; but. as an article by Dr. (j.^E Lea reminds us. physiologists have of late years discovered a nerve or bun die of nerves which might well be de scribed as the thread of life. One ol the developing sciences of our time is cardiography, the science of th.* heart beat. The heart, as most people is are aware, divided into auricles and ventricles. The ventricles are the pumping chambers; the auricles are the collecting chambers of the blood and, like the stroke of a racing eight set little the rhythm of the heart beat.” A instrument called the sphvgmo grnph is placed on the wrist pulse and magnifies its movements and traces them with a recording pen in a zigzag curve, telling the observer what the ven¬ tricles are doing. Another instrument, the polygraph, placed on the jugular, records the more delicate vibrations of the aurjcle. With the aid of these two instruments the physician can find what all the four chambers of the heart are doing. Now, the auricular con¬ traction acts as a stimulant or start¬ ing shock to tjie ventricular contrac¬ tion Most stimuli are conveyed along nerves. Therefore a little nerve in the heart to act as a telegraph wire between auricle and ventricle was to be expected. Such n thing has been found by physiologists; but. rather than a nerve, it is a specialized sensitive por¬ tion of the heart muscle itself. It is a little wisp of tissue not an inch long and only one-twelfth of an inch thick On this delicate communicating wisp, called the aurieulo ventricular bundle, hangs existence itself. Evolution has arranged that it shall be so small and so sheltered in position in the heart that It is rarely damaged even by large In¬ juries to that organ. But if it is sev¬ ered then the ventricles must stop and life must instantaneously cease.—Lon¬ don Tost. THE P0ST0FFICE. it Seemed to Be Located In a Rather Lonely Place. A veteran stagecoach driver in Idaho used to tell of an incident that hap pened when he drove the stage over to Boise City from the Union Pacific line. He had on one trip only a single passenger, a little tenderfoot of a New England schoolma’am going to take charge of a school in that town. She had never before been farther from Boston than the Hudson river. Along about dusk one evening as she sat on the box by the driver and the team wound its way around the shoulder of a bleak mountain a highwayman sud¬ denly stepped into the middle of the road aud held up his hand. A cocked rifle rested easily in the hollow of his arm and its muzzle pointed straight at the driver's head. He quickly pulled up. "Throw over Weils-Fargo’s box!’ said the man with the gun. The driver reached down and flung fbe box into the road; then be started to gather up the reins. “Hold 9 n!” the other cried impatient¬ ly. "Where’s the mail bag? Don’t you think 1 want that?” For reply the driver swiftly kicked it overboard. “AH right,” said the man on the ground in affable tone; “you can drive on now.” For half a mlie they rolled along in silence, scboolma’am and driver. The former seemed to be in deep study. At last, turning to the driver, she said. “I don’t know anything about the west, of course, but that certainly does seem to be an awfully lonesome place to have a postotfice.”—Washington Post A Useless Implement. Aunt Ann Arkwright, the bustling spouse of Uncle Joshua Arkwright, proudly showed him a silver imple¬ ment which a friend had given her as a birthday present, it was shaped something like a spatula, but broad ened considerably toward the handle Uncle Joshua inspected it with some curiosity "What is it?” he asked. "Haven’t you any idea?” she said. "No, not the least in the world.” "Well.” said Aunt Ann, "it’s a pie knife.” Uncle Joshua picked it up, inspected It critically and laid it down again. “I haven’t any use for it.” he said, “as far as I’m concerned it’s too wide. I couldn’t eat pie with it ’thout cutting my mouth ’’—Youth’s Compan¬ ion. Dyed Articles. In dyeing at home amateurs often make the mistake of puttinj the dyed article through the wringer, possibly to avoid staining the bauds for one reason or perhaps hoping to dry the garment more quickly. This, however, should never be done, for the creases so formed are most obstinate and. in fact, often only disappear with wear, despite all pressing. Dyed articles should tye squeezed from the batb and hung out of doors to dry. Adversity’s Compensation. Rlchleigh-I wish I were you. Poor leigh-For goodness sake, why? Ricb letgji- Why. you can have the fun of proposing to every girl yon meet an be sure of being refused.-New Yorfc Journal. ___ The road leading to Justice to tne safest—Hesiod. THE COVINGTON NEWS The Way Uncle Sam Is Swindled Through the Mails. j WATCHES j IN WEDDING CAKE. | A Scheme That Was Disclosed by a Gleeful Girl Who Could Not Hold Her Tongue—Gloves That Came One «t a Time and Corsets In Sections. loo few people think it a crime to swindle the customs. For that reason many bright and brainy persons think hard how to get goods from abroad without paying toll to Uncle Sam. As most of the successful operators in this line are women, who have more time to think about such things than men, it can be imagined that the cus¬ toms officers have to be eternally alert to protect the government. 1 b# avenues through the steamship passenger route are pretty carefully guarded, and as ^comparatively few people go abroad the great mass of dwellers in this protected land are de¬ barred from sharing in the humorous little game of hide the diamond or smuggle the silk. But there is an¬ other avenue that Is being used enthusi astieally by the anti-duty aggregation It is the United States mail. With the immense volume of foreign mall delivered to this country it is manifestly impossible to open and ex¬ amine every package that seems to contain newspapers or merely a bulky letter to see whether or not some duti¬ able article is concealed therein. So far as It is possible, however. It Is done, and the addressee has to go to the postoffice and pay duty on the amount at which the dutiable article is appraised. The custom house experts at the postotfice have their hands full check¬ mating the clever moves of those who are constantly devising new ways to disguise dutiable things as innocent looking parcels. “We used to pass cakes through without question,” said one of the ex¬ aminers. “It seemed too bad to lay hands on a Christmas pudding sent by relatives in England to some exile in this country. It also disturbed the sen¬ timental side of a customs officer to demolish a section of wedding cake that had been sent from the old borne in Germany to Fritz in America. So we let these sacred things pass [ through. But one day we had an awakening. One of the customs men heard that a neighbor had obtained a new watch from abroad. It had come through duty free, and the gleeful girl who was wearing it could not keep quiet about the clever way the post office had been deluded. It seems the watch had been baked right into the cake and had come through without discovery. Now, this forced us to take some step to prevent a repetition of such smartness, and ever after that we held on to all cakes or puddings that eatne in packages through the mail. A letter is sent to the person to whom the package is addressed, and this person (it is almost always a wo¬ man) has to come to the postoffice aud cut the £ake or slice the pudding right in front of the customs officer. Do we catch a Tartar occasionally? Well, you may take it for granted that any one who would try this trick Is a Tartar, to begin with, and so we don’t get off without a scene when the cutting time comes. “A trick that fooled us for a time was the sending through the mail of one glove a trifle creased to give the Idea that it was merely a worn glove that had been left if) Europe by a tour¬ ist. With the glove would come a let¬ ter to that effect. ‘You went away without one of your gloves,’ etc. Of course we passed it through unsuspect¬ ingly. But we got so many of these that it began to look suspicious. So we held on to one of them, and by the next mail there came another glove from the same address to the same person. The glove was the fellow to the other. Then we got another left hand glove and later the right hand glove to match it. The trick was sim¬ ple and admirable In its simplicity. Gloves were being sent through in quantities, one at a time. "But the queerest trick we exposed the other day. A woman was accumu tying a large stock of fancy corsets without troubling about the duty that should have been paid on them. The trick was to send half a corset through the mail. We knew of no rule about paying duty on half a corset It ap¬ peared to us to be a mere remnant of the up to date woman’s attire and not important enough to consider as duti¬ able. along "So we passed the half corset and thought no more of it. But half corsets began to drop in with aii too great frequency. It looked as though corset remnants had suddenly attained considerable Importance in some one’s estivation. So one of the men put it up to his wife, and she took some¬ thing less than a fraction of a second to puncture the scheme. The half Cor¬ set was useless in itself, but when the other half arrived there was a French corset ready for wearing. *‘\Ye find fine silks done up in pack¬ ages of herbs, watches, diamond rings and bracelets concealed In the leaves of books in holes cut for the purpose and separate diamonds hidden away lr\ bottles of transparent liquid where the is scarcely visible. No doubt getu articles escape us, but manv dutiable day to the we are getting wiser every tricks of the mall smugglers. -New York Tribune. Keep your face always to themm shine and the •hadows will fall h* hind jam. FEATS OF STRENGTH. A Blacksmith Who Fairly Outdid Au¬ gustus the Strong. Not all the world’s strong men have been performers on the public stage. Indeed, instances might be multiplied m which the feats of professionals have been equaled or excelled. Charles I.ouvier, a carpenter of Paris, found it child's play to roll a tin basin between his fingers into a cylinder. On one occasion he carried off a sol¬ dier on guard xvho had gone to sleep in the sentry box and deposited both the box and the soldier on a low churchyard wall near by. Another man who sometimes found his great strength a source of amuse¬ ment was a Danish locksmith. Knut Knudsou. While standing in a win¬ dow on the ground floor he lifted with one hand half a bullock from the shoulder of a butcher who was toiling past with his load. Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony, once entered a blacksmith’s shop to have his horse shod. To show ills suit how strong he was he picked up several horseshoes and broke one after the other, asking the blacksmith as he did so if he had no better. When it came to paying the bill the elector threw a silver piece on the anvil. It was a very thick coin. The blacksmith took it up and broke it in half, saying, ‘Tardon me, but I have given you a good horseshoe, and I expect a good coin in retiyn.” Another piece was offered him. He broke that and five or six others. Then the humiliated elector handed him a louis d'or, saying, “The others were probably made of bad metal, but this gold piece is good. I hope.” An Italian, Luigi Bertini of Milan, performed a similar feat. Besides horseshoes, he broke nails a finger thick. The Duke of Grammont, the minis¬ ter of Napoleon III. frequently aston¬ ished the women at jourt by bending a twenty franc piece in his hand.— New York Tribune. Early Italian Surgery. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) tells of early Italian surgery. He had got a bit of chipped steel in his eye, “so far Into the pupil that It was impossible to get it out. so that l was in very great danger of losing that eye. But the surgeon came to the rescue with the pigeons. The surgeon, making me lie upon my back, with a little knife opened a vein in each of their wings, so that the blood ran into my eye, and I was thereby greatly relieved. In the space of two days the bit of steel Is¬ sued from my eye, aud I found that I had received considerable ease and In a great measure recovered my sight” ARAGO’S NOSE. It Was Enormous In Size, but It Was Safely Anchored. Emmanu<$ Arogo, the French politi¬ cian, was a nephew of the noted as¬ tronomer and was considered a hand¬ some man, although his nose was ex¬ tremely conspicuous. At one time he was traveling by train to Versailles when a child who was in the same car and who had Watched Arago for some time with dilated eyes began to cry In vain did the child’s mother en¬ deavor to calm the perturbed juvenile The poor mother was in despair, and as the shrieks grew more and more piercing Arago felt bound to interfere and see what he could do. He said to the child: “What alls you, my dear?” Thus addressed, the child sobbed out, “Take off your nose.” Arago looked at the mother, who very confused aud said: “Ah, monsieur, excuse me—excuse my son.” “But, madame," said Arago, “what he mean?” The mother then explained that she had during the carnival taken her child to see a number of persons in masks and with false noses and be had become so excited that he could of nothing else. “By an unfortunate occurrence." she “we got Into the same carriage you, who no doubt for some good reason are prolonging tbe carnival. But you see what a deplorable result has followed. Let me then beg of you to have pity on a poor mother and take off your nose." “But, madame,” said Arago, stupe fled. “A little more and my child will have convulsions.” shrieked the moth “Take off your false nose.” “But, madame.” said Arago in de¬ “that is Impossible. This is not false nose, but my own!” “Impossible. Impossible!” cried the lady. “Touch it,” said Arago. The indy gave a pull at Arago’s but it did not come off in her hand, as she had expected. “A thousand pardons.” she said, “but pray, hide It with your hat.” So Arago continued his journey with bis nose in his hat, and the child's screams gradually subsided. Arago used to tell the story with glee. Located. “You say that the cook assaulted inqgired the Judge. “He did—kicked me, your honor.” “Where did he kick you?” “In the pantry.”—Judge. Disconcerting. It is disconcerting when you have paid out $500 for a violin and $40 for bow to find that you can’t make a on the blamed thing without a cent piece of rosin! In tbe course of life how many per¬ stop on their way and fall be¬ like Atalanta, they let the gold seduce them.- Honore de Bai¬ NOT A PLUMBER BORN. The Beginner Who )N as Sent to Find a Leak and Failed. Fipes & Fassitt ran a busy shop They had men out working the eight hour day in the Washington heights district. They had helpers out, too, at the regular rates. Monday morning had opened up with a rush. Joints were bursting, and bathtubs were tlovviug over. Fassitt generally followed up the jobs, seeing that they were covered. Fipes held the desk dowu and made out the bills. Presently the door pushed open, and a hardy looking young fellow came in. He handed a uote to Mr. Pipes. Pipes read it. "Please, sir,” said the young fellow. “Don’t ‘please’ anybody here,” said Pipes. “Riley says you’re a good man and willing to work. Biddowu!" The hardy looking young fellow sat for five minutes; theL 4ae telephone rang. “Get that off the wire,” said Pipes. The young man got it. “It’s Mr. Silverberg that owns the big apartment house on St. Nicholas avenue. His star tenant complains of a leak iu the ceiling from the floor overhead.” “You take that wrench and go over,” said Pipes. “Locate the floor. Get around to Congdon’s, where we've got a contract, and lift a helper, Go back and find the leak. Then report to me. Don’t hurry too much.” The young man departed, returning in a couple of hours. “Nothing doing, Mr. Pipes,” he said. “The tenant overhead spilled some wa¬ ter in a corner of the kitchen. It ran under the sink and followed the pipe line to the floor below. That was ail." Pipes kept on making out bills. A ninety cent clock got along to 12 just as the noon whistle blew outside. Then Tipes rose up sadly. “Here's sitting time,” he said. “Take the money. You’ll need it. A tenant Imagines a leak. The owner wants to pay for repairing the leak. You were sent to find it. You failed. Some day you may be an angel, but you will never be a plumber. Goodby!”—New York Sun. PRISONERS OF WAR. Friendly Foes That Changed Places as Guest* and Hosts. A cheerful Incident of the war be¬ tween the states Is told In “Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain.” The 'I hird Ohio, under S'.relght’s command, was on route foe Richmond, prisoners of war. One night they camped, worn, fam lshed, with hearts 'aeavy and home¬ sick, near the place where a Confeder¬ ate regiment, the Fifty fourth Virginia, was stationed. Many of th« southern¬ ers strolled over to lie prison camp to see the sorry show >f the poor, sup pcrless Yankees. They did not stay long. Back to their own camp they hurri'jd aud soon returned with kettles of coffee, corn bread, bacon—the best tfcey had and all they had. Presently little fires be¬ gan to twinkle in the p.lson camp, and the aroma of coffei r»se like a fra¬ grant cloud of thank offering. Union guests and Confederate hosts mingled. The next morning, the prisoners de¬ parted. Now comes a happy sequel which well balances the affair. Later, when the prisoners were exchanged, the Third Ohio was encamped near Kelly’s ferry, on the banks of the Tennessee. On the day of the s/orming of Mis¬ sionary ridge among the prisoners tak¬ en were numbered the Fifty-fourth Virginia. Some of the Third Ohio were on duty at the ferry when the prison de¬ tachments arrived. “What regiment Is that?” they asked. When told they started on the run. shouting as they went: “The Fifty-fourth Virginia’s at the ferry!” They dashed into their camp with the news. The place was astir in¬ stantly. Treasures of coffee, bacon, sugar, beef, preserved peaches-every¬ thing was turned out and carried double quick to the ferry. The cir¬ cumstances were the same, with the difference that guests and hosts had eh, nged places. Rammed by a Shark. The strangest shark story which ever came to the writer's ears was of a shark that charged a steamer. This was in Queen Charlotte's sound, and an account of the incident appeared in a Vancouver paper. The captaiu of the steamer, which was a small craft of only fifty tons or so, saw the shark on the surface on the port bow and could not resist the temptation of tak¬ ing a shot at it with his rifle. He hit his mark, whereupon the monster, said to have been fully twenty feet in length, deliberately charged the steam¬ er. The boat quivered from stem to stern, and the captain said afterward that it was like striking a rock. After this display of temper Master Shark had had enough of it and sank out of sight.—T. C. Bridges in Chambers’ Journal. How Eraatus Found Light. Voting is something of a* hazard at times if we do not happen to have the plain guidance of the old'darky jani¬ tor in Princeton. Erastus, being asked how he had vote<|, replied: “In the mahnln’, sah, I was Inclined to de Re¬ publican cause, for they gave me $3, but in the afternoon de Democrats gave me $2. So, sah, I voted de Dem¬ ocrat ticket straight, because dey was de leas’ corrup’, sah—de leas’ corrup’, sah!”—Success Magazine.' Broadening. Bond—Don’t you realize that mar¬ riage broadens a man? 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