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Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 13, 1888.
Pneumonia a Germ Disease.
And now the theory Ls held that pneu
monia, too, is to lie classed as a germ dis
ease. The authority for this opinion is
Dr. A. G. Siebert, a German-American
physician of New York, one of the most
competent authorities on the subject in
America, and an indefatigable investiga
tor on modern scientific methods of the
causes of pneumonia, and especially the
degree to which the weather furthers this
disease.
‘•It is my belief, certainly, 1 ’ said Dr.
Siebert, “that pneumonia is an infec
tious. though not a contagions, disease.
People dti not take it from each other,
but they may lake it from the same
place, in my practice, as a very com
mon thing, in the same family, two or
more would have it. In a Bavarian
prison, out of 500 inmates, sixty-two died j tenor,
of pneumonia in one year in one ward.
Not another ward was touched. Dr. S
Einmereich was the physician attendant. j
He ordered the floor of this ward to le !
torn up. Beneath it there was found a (
filling of refuse, impregnated with moist- ;
ure in the proportion of ‘27 percent, to i
the whole mass, from the washings which j
had dripped through the boards. The
rubbish was analyzed under powerful
microscopes, and in it were discovered
miasms, which a few years ago Dr.
Dried lander had pointed out as being
found constantly in the lungs of people
who had died of pneumonia. This is one
indication.
The infectious diseases begin with a
sudden chill. So does pneumonia. Pneu
monia lasts generally from seven to nine
days, disappearing with a crisis and a
profound sweat, and when the crisis is
past, the patient, though weak and ex
hausted, is otherwise perfectly well.
This is the character of fever and the in
fectious diseases. Again, among people
exposed even to the severest conditions of
winter weather in the open air pneumo
nia is a thing almost unknown. The
Arctic explorers in the extremes of ice
and snow and in pure air had no pneu
monia. They had many other diseases,
though, incident to cold and hardships.
Pneumonia occurs in summer as well sis
in winter, proving that cold is not an in
dispensable cause. All physicians of
much practice have found cases of pneu
monia originating in the same house at
different times of the year, and it is fre
quently the case that those who have it
once have it again. The latter fact is
well known. An explanation of this,
which is at least allowable, is that the
locality is the cause of the disease rather
than special susceptibility in the people
attacked by it.
“Pneumonia is a house disease, as is
the case, according to my belief, with
inflammatory rheumatism and diphtheria.
In the warm air of the house the system
is made sensitive to the cold, hut the cold
is only the producing cause. It prepared
the coddled lungs for the pneumonia poi
son which had its real origin in damp and
dirty rooms or cellars.
“What is the cure? Well, the steps to
the cure have unhappily advanced but
little. But the relief and the prevention
are—no medicine and plenty of fresh air.
If you have consumption, a dangerous
cold, or the fear of pneumonia, I should
say, if you cannot fresh air anywhere
else, go to the Arctics for it; but get that,
at all events, if you want to live. A con
sumptive who followed my advice lived
two years longer than any expectations
had been held that he could live. What
was the advice? No medicine and a voy
age in September down the Atlantic
coast, with directions to keep on deck as
long as was up, rain or shine, and to
sleep with the porthole open, except when
it rained. His friends prophesied that he,
being seemingly in the last stages of con
sumption, would come back in three
weeks a corpse. In three months he
came back with an added weight of fif
teen pounds. He lived two yeans longer,
pursuing the fresh air regimen. On his
deathbed he told mo that the open air
had given him those two years. His was
a genuine case of tuberculosis, too.
“What, then, is the connection between
the weather and the cause of pneumonia,
if. as you believe, pneumonia is a germ
disease?”
“No poison can enter the blood except
through a raw surface; and it is onlj
where the respiratory tract has been irri
tated that the poison germ can enter the
lungs.”
“What weather, then, prepares the
lungs for the reception of the poison
rccil ? 1 *
“Whenever you find three things—
humiditv, cold and a wind of over fifteen
miles an hour—look out for pneumonia.
February is pneumonia's carnival month,
and by actual statistics, I have compared
rhe weather constituents for each day for
1 a space of three years, with 600 cases of
pneumonia occurring during that time.
In this comparison the facts are that regu
larly on the days of humidity, cold and
high wind the pneumonia statistics reach
their top mark. This is not theory; there
is the record. The worst pneumonia ac
count is not necessarily on the coldest
days, for with extreme cold there is very
probablv no extreme humidity. It is the
two together that ravage. Dry cold
makes no such score. Consumptives who
thrive well in the high and dry cold of
Davoes, Switzerland, in winter, suiter
most in May.”—Chicago Times,
The Voice* of Birds.
“Do the voices of the birds correspond
in their registers to those cf human be
ings?”
“Decidedly; although this has never
before been stated. For instance, the
nightingale is a rich contralto, the mock
ing bird a soprano sopracuto. the wood
thrush a fine soprano, the skylark a curi
ous combination of the mezzo and the
soprano, with the odds in favor of the
mezzo. The stake driver is a basso pro-
fundo. His notes are deep and sonorous,
and his song is: ‘Punk-a-gonk! A-genk-
a-wunck.’ The cedar bird or the wax
wing lisps. He tries to sing in all parts
and eanot sing in any. The bobolink is
a musical hybrid of meters. His is a
jingling song, lie is the only bird whom
the mocking bird can't imitate. If a
boliolink be shut up in the same ra
with a mocking bird the mockin
will not infrequently die within three
months of a broken heart, because of his
failure to imitate the bobolink. The
winter wren is a crystaline contratino
The rapidity of its song defies
lightning and consequently analysis.
The blue bird, as Mr. Beecher said,
a 1 wavs seems to lx; al>ont to sing some
thing, but never quite gets there. The
vulture is the musical discord of the bird
family. Its voice, which is even more
hoarse than that of the blue jay, is per
ceptibly vitiated by its intemperate hab
its. The vulture is the drunkard of the
birds. The Ik-11 bird of Florida has a
voice whose gamut of sounds represents
the higher and lower tones of a jieal of
bells. The voice of this bird can be
heard distinctly for three-fourths of a
mile. The voice of the oriole sounds as
though the bird were sinking Tuscan
Latin. The voice of the wood dove is
like a flute. The red bird’s voice re
sembles a piccolo. The scraping voice of
the wliet saw resembles so exactly the
sound of a saw at a log mill that when it
scrapes its song out at night more than
one sawyer has been waked from his
sleep supposing that the mill was in
motion. The canary has a zither voice.
The catbird imitates a violin. The
monotonous voice of the blue jay is like
a Scotch bagpipe.”—New York Evening
Sun*.
Lincoln nnd HU Bcnvd.
Shortly after his first election to-the
presidency he received a pleasant letter
from a little girl living in a small town
in the state of New York. The child
told him that she had seen his picture,
and it was her opinion, as she expressed
it in her artless way, that he “would be
a better looking man if he would let his
heard grow.” Mr. Lincoln*passed that
New York town on his way to Washing
ton, and his first thought on reaching
the place was about his little corftespond-
ent. In his brief speech to the people he
_ j made a pleasing reference to the child
! and her charming note. “This little
I lady,” said he, “saw from the .first that
! great improvement might be made in my
■ personal appearance. You all see that I
i am not a very handsome man, and. to be
honest with you. neither I nor an;, - of
bird my friends ever boasted very much about
mv personal beauty.” He then passed
his hand over his face and continued:
“But I intend to follow that little gill's
advice, and if she is present I would like
to speak to her.” The child came for
ward timidly, and was warmly greeted
by the president-elect. He took her in
his arms and kissed her affectionately,
expressing the hope that he might have
the pleasure of seeing his little friend
again sometime.
Shortly after this Mr. Lincoln, for the
first time in his life, allowed his beard to
grow all over his face, with the excep
tion of the upper lip; and this fashion
he contihued as long as he lived. In
speaking of the incident which led him
to sport a full board lie afterward ‘o
marked, reflectively: “How small a
thing will sometimes change the whol-
aspect of our lives. ”—Ward IL Lamon.
R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO.
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Stalking the Moose.
For winter stalking, while the snow Ls
from four to six inches deep, the dress of
the hunter should be made of a heavy,
light colored woolen fabric, with wool
socks and stout, soft moccasins, as ordi
nary leather foot gear makes too much
noise in passing through brush or hard
snow.
There must be no frozen crust upon t!io
snow and the harder the wind blows the
better, as this tends to prevent the sound
of the hunter’s footsteps from reaching
the sensitive ears of the animal, and for
the same reason, the stalker should in
variably move against or across the wind,
as his prospects of success would be ex
ceedingly’ precarious should he hunt with
the wind, when the keen smelling and
hearing faculties of the animal would,
in all probability, apprise him of danger
long before the hunter came in sight.
The moose is not only wonderfully
alert in detecting the proximity of hun
ters, but he seems to he instinctively en
dowed with the faculty of discriminating
between the sounds produced by the
hunters’ movements and those made by
the elements, or other natural causes,
such as the loud cracking or falling of
branches from trees, which give him no
alarm, whereas the breaking of a small
twig by the step of a man will sometimes
startle the wary beast so as to cause him
to run for miles at his utmost- speed.—
Brig. Gen. Randolph B. Marcy in Outintr.
An Artificial Larynx.
Gussenbauer, of Prague, invented an
artificial larynx, through which Bill
roth’s first successful case was able to
breathe, and by means of which speak
ing could be done, and, strangely enough,
the words were intelligible. The arti
ficial larvnx consists of tubes with vibrat
ing membranes within, through which
the air must pass to and from the lungs.
The natural voice consists of tones or
sounds produced by the vibrations of the
vocal cords in the larynx, but modified
by the throat, tongue, nose, mouth,
teeth and lips. So it is easily understood
that articulation does not occur in the
larynx. In the artificial contrivance the
membranes are stretched 60 tightly that
when the air is passed between them
with some force a tone is produced. As
these membranes cannot be rendered
tense or lax. the tone is always the same,
an unnatural, monotonous sound, but
the organs engaged in articulation are
able to produce the necessary modifica
tions in it to be understood as words with
definite meanings,—Globe-Democrat.
A Good War Horse.
At a dinner not long ago one of the
guests remarked that Bavarian horses
were celebrated for their general worth
lessness. He said that a dealer sold one
to a German officer during the t ranco-
Prussian war. and warranted him to be a
good war horse. The soldier came back
afterward in a towering passion and said
he had been swindled. “And howr
said the dealer. “Vfhy. there is not a
bit of -go' in him. and yet you x\:ui.mu
him as a good war horse. ” “Y os. I du ;
and. by George! ho is a good war hi . .
He'd sooner die than run!"—Exchange.
Clothing of the Skin.
In a paper on the health of the skin.
by Dr. Starin, extended reference is made
to the prevalent habit of putting too
many wraps on the skin, and concerning
which the author declares that no man’s
skin, or woman’s either, can be kept
thoroughly clean and healthy by piling
too much clothing upon Ins or her bod}.
It is a fact, he says, that clothing in
itself has no property in itself of bestow
ing heat, but Ls chiefly useful in prevent
ing the dispersion of the temperature of
the body, and in some instances in de
fending' it from the atmosphere: and
this power of preserving heat is due to
the same principle, that of conduction
and non-conduction, whatever form the
raiment may assume, whether the most
healthful and elegant tissues of human
manufacture or nature’s covering of
birds and animals.—Boston Budget.
Under Italian Skies.
AVe pass in sight of three seasons, j
Around us is the crisp air and golden
sunshine of autumn. Beneath us hun
dreds of feet the rills of spring murmur
their way toward the sea. Above us the
frosts and snow of winter keep their cold
and beautiful silence, except when they
speak with the white tongue of an ava
lanche. Sometimes the delicate ever
green trees of an entire mountain side
have been covered with rain that froze
as it fell, and the whole gigantic hill
flashes in a corrugated cloak of silver.
Away, beyond and above this a higher
mountain will hold up its mighty drifts
to fraternize with the white clouds. We
are rushing along among mansions fit
for the gods.
The people that we see at stations and
in the coaches are becoming more and
more stubby and swarthy. The guard of
the train—a kind of conductor and brake-
man in one—looks exactly like the tourist
from Italy who wanders along our street
at home in the early morning and ex
plores the ash barrel with an iron hook.
Women doing their washing in the road
side streams are small and ill-favored.
These mountains seem to have borne
dwarfs. A few soldiers in shabby uni
forms look too small to participate in a
grown up battle, and make us wonder at
Magenta and Solferino. Beggars spring
up out of the earth, undressed in the
carefully arrayed rags of professional
poverty. An old gray haired woman is
plowing in a barren looking field with
a pair of cows—the yoke twined about
their horns. People talk to each other in
a queer dialect of French and Italian,
broken and ground together.—Will
Carieton.
Sl ots by Skillful Archers.
In the days when the buffalo was
found in vast herds on the western plains,
there were Indians who, while riding at
a gallop, could send an arrow through a
buffalo’s body. Remarkable as this
shooting was, yet it did not equal that
reached by the archers of ancient times.
Mr, Dixon, in his history of Gairlock,
Scotland, says that the MacRaes of that
district were such skillful archers that
they could hit a man at the distance of
401) and even 500 yards. He instances
the killing of a serving man at 500 yards
and of two men killing several McLeods
at 400.
Lest the reader should discount the
distance of the range, the author men
tions several wonderful shots made by
Turks. In 1794 the Turkish ambassador
shot an arrow, in a field near London,
415 yards against the wind and 482 yards
with the wind.
Tire secretary of the ambassador, on
hearing the expressions of surprise from
the English gentlemen present, said the
sultan had shot 500 yards. This was the
greatest performance of modern days,
but a pillar, standing on a plain near
Constantinople, recorded shots ranging
up to 800 yards.
Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador
to the sublime porte, records that in 1798
he was present when the sultan shot an
arrow 972 yards.—Youth's Companion.
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Evolution of Words.
It is interesting to trace the evolution
of words and expressions. Cultivated
people say: “How do you dor Tuo>e
who are less precise say: ’ ’ Ho " (1 > llo °;
In the backwoods oi Tennessee they sa\
••Ilowdv?” The noble red man of ).w
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fence says “Owr —Lorwwu Luilul.
Before a Russian Court.
Usually when a suspect is placed on
examination or trial and is permitted to
make a defense, he employs liis attorney
under a contract like this: If sentenced
to Siberia the fee shall be 1.000 roubles:
if onlv a year's imprisonment, 5.000
roubles: if acquitted. 10,000 roubles. The
trials are then conducted under the prin
ciples of the Russian proverb: “The cause
is decided when the court receives a
present.” Thus the success of the lawyer
depends upon his ability in pleasing the
judge's taste in present giving. It is not
once in twenty times that a p rise tier sus
pected of crime against the crown is ac
quitted.—New Yi.rk Sun.
There are t wo kinds of juke. One mala 1
vou ache with laughter, and the other
onlv makes you ache. Tins one belong!
uo the latter class.
Scandinavians in the United States.
A series of articles on different nation
alities in the United States forms one of
the unique features of the current vol
ume of The Chautauquan. In a late
number Albert Shaw discusses the Scan
dinavians, and gives the following in liis
valuable computation of statistics: More
people have left Norway, Sweden and
.Denmark during the last seveu years to
make their homes in the United States
than during the entire previous existence
of our country. With one-fortieth of
the whole population of Europe the
Scandinavian countries furnish nearly
one twenty-fourth of the aggregate
European emigration of the United
States during the six decades from 1820
to 1880. Since 1880 we have admitted j
in ro"nd numbers 4,000,000 European |
recruits to our shores, of whom about j
500,000 ’nave been Scandinavians. That
is to say, we are during the current de
cade drawing 12 1-2 per cent, of our new
foreign population from a group of kin
dred nations which have only 2 1-2 per
cent, of the population of Europe.—Pub
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: she wears this ornament, winch is used
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