ROUND THE WORLD

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2294, 13 May 1886, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD

The bollos of Now. York are quick to grab right • hold of new''ideas that aro frivolous, and it in a pity tharaieir inclination in that respect canfiot be diverted intu higher and broader channels. I went recently to have a tooth pulled. New York hfiß several places exclusively for that jerky sort of-surgery j wherein no other dentistry 18 practised, and were great quantities uf laughing gas is used The accustomed patient Bits placidly down in the chair,-, breathes out of the bag, goes to sleep, and awakes in a minute or bo to find that his tooth is gone. He lias suffered neither dread nor pain. ,But the novices do not divest themselves of the fright of anticipation, and the waiting room is, therefore full ■ of woebegone faces and trembling; limbs, and the voice of persuasion is co.nstanHy raised. This time, however, I saw a bevy of fashionably dressed girls notoneof whom showed jvrnptoms of aching teeth or palpitating ladies," Baid.one of the operatofs^pleaßO-' step this way." They went into, .the sanctum, but were not so perfectly socluuod that I could not.see what was. done to them. Each in turn took a blithesome seat in the chair, breathed the gas, fell back insensible, speedily aroused herself, and gave place to another subject. Then they paid 60 cents apiece and departed, laughing and chattering "They take the gas for exhilaration," said the doctor, when I asked for anexplanatian,' "'lt is usually a cure for headache, it vivifies a : ; jaded brain, and it has suddenly, become a stylish thin? to take. After a late night at a reception, or any other cause of lassitude, the belles. • visit us in parties like the. one you've Been, and take light doses of laughing-gaß. That in the latest swell fad, you know." The Philadelphia Times gives tlie following particulars of Mr Gough's death: —He was feeling well when he arose to address tho crowded gathering, and after making a pleasant allusion to his failure. to fulfil m ■ engagement at the Church earlier in the winter, he entered into tha subject with great warmth. His earnest. exertions,, added to the lack of sufficient ventilation, soon told upon- the speaker, while he mopped large beaikof perspiration from his forehead, A had been, spoaking about forty minutes when! he... J)pgan to make eloquent refcreijceio the poisonous effects ot'fruni. . In fsry sentences he wns illustrating: the 1 crushing power of alcohol by describing in a dramatio manner the niovemeiitsof an imaginary serpent around his arm, when hit head dropped, upon .his chest, and hii anna were thrown wildly in the air. The audience at first believed that he'was about to describe the antics of a drunken man, when he fellprostrateto tho floor of the pulpit, .Thorei was excitement among those presont, arid, after Mr Gough had been lifted and placed upon a sofa, the pastor endeavoured to allay tho oxcitement, by requesting tho choir to sing. A. few lines had only been sung, when the excited organistaud choristers eeased. Dr Burns, who was in the audience, then advanced to the pulpit, and upon examination Bald '.that: Mr Gouijh had been stricken by apoplexy, and he advised that tho congregation bo dismissed. Thiß was ' done, and MrGqugh was shortly afterward placed upon the pulnitsofa and re-. moved to the residence «ter Burns, a few doors above the Church; when it was found that his left side was threatened with paralysis.". This wafl on the 15th February, and, as already stated, Mr Gough died on the afternoon of the 18th February. '■'',■■