MISCELLANEOUS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3421, 29 January 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

It is 21 yearn Ago since a Jew sat in tbe chair of the chief magistrate nt tho Mansion Housa,|but it isnotforgotton that the last Jewish Lord Mayor, Sir Benjamin Philips, occupied the rosition with groat dignity and success, Tho new Lord Mayor, whose maternal ancestors were of the same family as those of Lord Bc.iconsfioltl, is a sincere mombor of the Jewish community, jkyet he has chosen for his chaplain the jjwicar of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, , y and ho sat by the aide of tho rotiring Lord Mayor ntSt LawrcreoJewiy and heard from the lips of a clergyman of tho Church of England soiuu very wise words on tho opportunities of the Chief Magistrate of tho City for doing good. All experiment was made tbo other i day at Rockhampton, with apparently highly satisfactory results, with jKergeant's and Northcote's "safety Win" which is alleged to be a certain cneckagainst the vagaries of "bolting," and otherwise vicious and refractory horses, l'he device is simple enough, and it simply consists in attochiug a rein to the crupper, and running it through rings on both sides of the belly, band, and on the nose band, passing it thence into tho drivers hands. It does not interfere in the least with (ho freedom of tho animal's action, but the instant it shows signs of kicking or bolting or rearing, or in any way "going to market," the reia '8 tightened, and tho horse is brought np "all standing." At Rockhampton some of the most vicious horses were ; harnessed up, and in no single instance did the appliance fail to instantly ' control them, r'TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. There is an old saying that physicians are a class of men who pour i.drngß, of which Ihoy know little, Trento bodies of which they know less. This is both true and unrue at tho same time, There are good and poor lawyora. and good and poor doctors. Tho trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is ] that they aro clannish, and apt to bo ■ conceited. They don't like to bo boate.n ' at. their own trade by outsiders who ' have never studiod medicine. Thoy therefore pay, by thoir frequent i failures, the penalty of refusing instruc- ] tion unless tho teacher bears thnir own I "Hall Mark." An eminont physician—Dr Brown- < Sequatd, of Paris-states the fact c accurately when he says: "Tho modi- '< cal profession aro so bound up in thoir aelf-confidonco and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science be picked up by porsons entirely outside thoir ranks." We inve a most interesting incident, which Illustrates this important truth. The steamship " Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board asa firu man a man named Richard Wade of Qln«:.<iw. Wn hr.,l l, nnn n ««.

, for fourteen ycara on various ships sailfrwi from America, China and India. jKio had borno the hard and exhausting labotir, and had beon healthy and strong. On the trip we now nanio ho began for the first tiino to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and ho sullered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad tasto in the mouth and costiveness and irregularity of tbo bowels. Sometimes whon at-work bo had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the boat of the fire-room, Quite often lie was sick and felt like vomiting and had some pain in the head. Lator during the passage ho grew worso, and when tho ship reached Halifax ho was placoi in tbo Victoria General Hospital, mid Hie ship sailed away without him. Tho house surgeon gavo him some powders to stop the vomiting, and.theuoxt day the visiting physician rove him n mixture to take every four hours, Within two days Wade was so much worso that tho doctors stopped both tho powdors and tho mixture. A month passed, tho poorlireman getting worso and worso, Then oamo another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for tho noxt 6vo months. He save other medicines, but not much relief. Nearly all that timo Wado suffered great torture; ho digested nothiug, throwing up all hoato. -IThero was terrible pain in tho. bowels, "burning heat in tho throat, heartburn, and racking headache. The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders one after each incal to digost tho hod, opdrating pills ono every night, and temperature pills two each night to tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, Kichard had an idea that he todk enough to do it. Sut on tho other hand pleurisy set in and the doctors took ninety ounces of matter fromhis right side, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month more rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wado a mixture which ho «aid iwttfeAim (rcmblt like a leaf om tree. . At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted itselt, Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if ho must dio ho could dio as well without them as with them. J3y this tune a cup of milk would turn sour on Jus stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow, was liko a wrork on a shoal, fast going to picrcs. We will let him tell the re3t of his experience in tho words in which he communicated the press. y| Ho Bays. " When I was in this stato a lady whom I had nevor seen camo to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo. Bho told mo of a medicino called 'Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctors, and in o]4y a few 'hys' lime I icas out of led calling forham andeggs forbrtahfad From that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon ablo to leave tho ■hospital and come homo to Glasgow, I "now feel as if a'™, in another world, and have no illness of any kind." The above facts aro calmly and impartially stated, and tho reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names, although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition, His address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where lettois will reach him. Mmiok.