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$hc Herald and ^ducrtiscii. 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. STEAM ENGINES. ALHO, SPECIAL) GIN- WE HAVE ON HAND SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN STEAM ENGINES. NERY OUTFITS, WHICH WILL REPAY PROMPT INQUIRIES. A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON PI AND AT LOW PRICES R. E>. COLE MANUFACTURING CO., NEWNAN, GA. J. H. Rkynolds, President. 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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 S “How?” - While th“ eat ootu* 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. 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