MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 450, 1 December 1904, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

It is estimated that the t siesta «t the Philippine island* coves' an »"»>'-. . of about 40,000,000 acres. ' A flat to go up in Cincinneal thif N season will probabij be the urgasj ' * one ia the country. IU fronU#e will > | be 1,000 feat. Recently, near Canterbury, N. HI, • railroad train came to a stand stsii to ft {rive half a dozes, dear a chance to. • croea the track. *' Cincinnati has aa organization oi - capitalist* called "Tha Tropical Com* pany." It has large land holdings to Honduras, on which the cultivation of bananas ia conducted oa am extensive scale. A dairyman ia Indf&naporia, Ind.. supplies his patrons with ia«t lo calls "noiseless milk." His wagons hare rubber tires, hia milkmen we*r rubber-soled shoes, and he has .•supplied each of his customers with a little rubber mat on which the Teasels containing the milk -are silently placed. ]■ A verdict of $5,000 damages was rendered in the superior court "of Chisago in favor of John Anderson, a, teamster, who was injured in a street ear accident. The esse was appealed, and the railroad compaay proved tha-i the judge who presided at the trial had become so bored that he had fallen asleep. ' The appellate court has decided that the judge's drowsiness was excusable.A long-suffering wife in Markleville, Ind., has a husband who spends most of his time in the three liquor saloons of the town. Not long ago she armed herself with a piece of board aad collared her festive lard in the back room of one of th* saldon3, among his gay companions. threw him across her knee and vigorously spflbked him with the board, to the great glee of h»s comrades. Then, clutching him by the ear, she lad the trembling toper home.

?• ABOUT CATARRH. A nib W~ - )raa tki Which Hay Serve to Ki |Aoh« «•«« ma «• T*le C*»Catarrh ia an inflammation of any of the mucous membranes of the body. It ia marked by the usual signs of inflaauaation, and, as the word implies — being derived from the Greek word meaning to flow down—by a more or leas profuse discharge. Catarrh may be acute or- chronic, and the latter, aa will be explained later, may be either atrophic or hypertrophic, s&jßs Youth's Companion. Acute catarrh unfortunately needs no description, for it ia only too familiar to us all as a cold in the head. In this case it is themucoue membrane of the nostrils which is inflamed. The rooit obvious sjtoptoms axe swelling of the membrane, which-maybe ao great as to close the nostrils completely, and a profuse discharge. When acute catarrh attacks the phamyx or lamyx we have a sore throat, and if the inflammation extends still farther we have bronchitis. In the latter case the most evident sign is a cough, due either to the presence of a mucosa discharge, or the irritation caused by the air passing through the inflamed bronchial tubes. In young children the inflammation in the larnyx causes much swelling, and this gives rise to the difficult breathing, and hoarse voice which characterize one form of croup. If catarrh attacks the stomach it causes severe indigestion, and when the intestinal mucous membrane is affected the most prominent symptom is diarrhoea. Conjunctivitis and acute inflammation of the ear are the ex- • pressions of catarrh of the eye and the drum of the ear. In chronic catarrh the process is less active; there is usually little or no pain, but the discharge is profuse and thiek. m • In hypertrophic catarrh the mucous membrane becomes permanently thickened, but in atrophic catarrh it is thinnad. Atrophic catarrh is not really an inflammation, but rather the result of a previous inflammation which has destroyed the mucous mem - • brane, leaving in its place merely a thin skin, covering the surface, but answering none of the purposes of a •■ mucous membrane. A catarrh may be caused by anything that acts as an irritant to the mucous membrane—dust, sulphurous, ammoniacal or other strong fumes. i undue dryness of the atmosphere, and so forth, in the ease of the air-pas-sages or eyes; indigestible food, alcohol and so forth, in the case of the - stomach or intestines. Often the inflammation is due to the presence of microbe*, which are probably always present, but can work harm only when the soil has been prepared for them by mechanical injury, or by congestion caused by a chill ing of some portion of the surface of the i body. Hataa'a State Viae?. By a recent act of the legislature. Maine is to have a state flag. Ti< act provides that the flag shall b • buff. In its center there will be :; green pine tree and in the upper lefthand corner a representation of thpole star in blue. The flag was designed by Gen. John T. Richard adjutant general. It tliat besides being most appr<;:r ate in design, the flag will be a thin;; of beauty. The background of buf the old coeseual color, will harmed perfectly with the green of the ;•;; tree and the blee pole star.—Bu.l'u.o Commercial. Mrs. Greene-«I suppose the Chitlings are awfully stuck up since thev one might have supposed; but I m ttcethat when they have mince-n.eat I used to be plain. Iranscripf.