DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISONER.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 253, 25 April 1888, Page 4

DESCRIPTION OF THE PRISONER.

(jafjperini is a man of about forty ,\eat\s of age, 5 feet 8 inches or 9 inches in height, and is of sbuut and powerful build. He is of dark and ruddy complexion. Ilia face is clean shaved, with the exception of a black moustache slightly tinged with grey and close cut whiskers. The prisoner does not speak English, and therefore lias not made any explanation to his captors.

Water for Infants. — A physician of the New York Child's Hospital believes, from his practice, that infants generally, whether brought up at the brenst or artificially, are not supplied with sufficient water, the fluid portion of their food being quickly taken up. leaving the solid too thick to be easily digested. In warm, dry weather, healthy babies will take water every hour with advantage, and their irequent fretfulness and riao of temperatuie is often directly due to their not having it. A free supply of water, and restricting ihe frequency of nursing, has been found at the nursery to be a most effectual check in cases of incipient fever, a diminished rate of mortality and marked i r educiion in the number of gastric and intestinal complaints being attributed to this cause. In teethcutting the water softens the gums and frequently stops the fretting and restlessness universal in children at this period.