A Fact Worth Knowing.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1960, 29 January 1885, Page 4

A Fact Worth Knowing.

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" Did yer get de piece I writ fur The Journal ?" aski'd an aspiring young man of the editor. " I du'n't see it in print." " Yes, I got it. But I didn't publish it because there was no point in it." "No pint ! Why, good thunder, man, you must be blind ! I stuck a pint at every place I could— either commy or semmy colon or period ; sometime three of 'em in one line." ThkKhsim, Ovtom.— Kissing in England was certainly known and practised m the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, aud practised with an easy familiarity which shows the custom was general. Indeed, so general was the use of the kiss that it was as usual as the bow. A gentleman taking ft lady to her scat from the dance invariably kissed her, and if he had not, would hn\ c been voted a very badly bred fellow. The literature of kisses is curious. There is a stoiy retailed in the "Broad Stone of Honour" of and English knight riding through France to the Field of th,e Cloth of Gold. His horse cast n shoe at a certain \ illage, the (seigneur whereof had departed to the same rendezvous, but the seigneur's lady hospitably entertaiued the traveller. She came out of her castle attended by twelve damsels fair to see. " And,' said the dame, " forasmuch as in England ye have such a custom as that a man may kiss a woman, therefore I will that he shall kiss me, and ye shall also kiss these my maidens," Which thing the knight straightway did, and rejoiced gicatly thereat. The quaintness of the last phrase undoubtedly indicates the young man's feeling at the salute with considerable exactitude. Vkky interesting experiments have lately been going on in \at ions Paris hospitals, under the direction of Dr Baumet/ and other high authorities, with sulphide of carbon as .in effective antimicrobe antiseptic. The cheap substance has been found one of the mostertieaeious agents in treatment for cholera. Ukiandi Bey the engineer, has demonstrated that not only may it be burned without danger, but that dissolved in water it may l>e taken as n draught, and render great service in cholera attacks. It has also bern employed as a compress on hysterical patients ln&cnsible to manual treatment, and cen to pricking with needles, and in the incredible hhort space of thirty seconds consciousness has been restored. (Jkiandi Bey has for twenty years been studying the action of sulphide of carbon in epedemics, particularly in those where the patients, along with consciousness, lose the power of resistance.