HEALTH NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2046, 18 August 1885, Page 4

HEALTH NOTES.

I)\sim i'st a. - -It ii b.uil that a half tea ol uimmon salt dissolved in a little cold w iti i will instantly telievc " haithuin '(u dyspepsia. Salt i-> also a good pai k'!c foi soic tin oat. Hot Wanii— St\ty public men and seveial doctots in St Louis have but.n qiustioncd liy a Republican leportci as to the benefits of hot water as .1 morning dunk for breakfast, and all .igicc that, as a vile, it is excellent toi a disordeied stomach tesulting ftoin excess in eating or di inking. Brkad Made With Ska Water.— A Get man doctor leconiends biead made with sea water as a wondeiful remedy against scrofula and disorders iesultmg from insufficient noiuishinent Sea water ought to stand twelve hours before bung used for making dough, in oider to free it fiom impurities, lit cad made with it has no unpleasant taste. Im'lukm'e i.r SuNsitiNK ox Slkh* — Sleepless people— and they are many in America — should couit the sun. The very worst sopotific is laudanum, and the veiy best sunshine. Theicfore, it is very plain that poor sbepers should pass as many hours as possible in the sunshine, and as few as possible in the shade. Man) women aie mait> is, and yet they do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses, and their heaits, they wear veils, the carry paiasols, they do all possible to keep oil the subtlest 1 , and yet most tpotent influence which is intended to give them strength and beauty anil eheei fulness Is it not time to change this and &o get color and loses in their pale cheeks, stiength in theii weak backs and coinage in their timid soul*? The wotner of America are pale and delicate ; they may be blooming and stiong : and sunlight will be a potent influence in this transfoi motion. TIIK WIIOLESOMI-SFNS OK JillhAl).— Miss Juliet Coison, in Harper's Bazaar, treats the bread question, as all other details of cookeiy, fiom a practical point of a view. Slie says a word for aeiated bread, made of dough, into which caibonic acid gas is forced, and baked before the bubbles have a chance to escape. The main objection to ftesh yeast bread for dyspeptics is that it i.s soft and therefore too easily swallowed, whereas the "stale" biead lcquiies much mastication. If sufFeieis who have been avoiding new bread mil take the same trouble in chewing it as they aic compelled to do with the old, thty will get ail the advantage of their patience in the more palatable aiticle. The ficsh biead cater leally ta\es his digestion with a much largm mass of spongy quality than the stale biead c.itci, and one which has not been ns will lnokin up l»v the action of the saliva If dyspeptics weie careful to take the smallest mouthful^ at a time they would liinl iven fu-.li biead moie manageable, with suflicient chewing, than is supposed. In the choice of flouts, that made fiom haul v.mtu wheat is the richest in gluten ; in Em ope it is used for making the different vancties of macaroni ; the blow n biead of huiope is made from this wheat giound cntiie Soft spiing wheat jields a white flour rich in starch, liian lucid may be vciy irntating to some invalids, so •' Graham bread" and the "wholemeal" fashion should only be adopted when it is piovcd to be satisfactory. The patticlcs of bian may cause an iintation of the alimcntiiy canal and pioduce di-uiha-as. Undoi btedly this imtition or stimulus may be e\actly what is needed by some constitutions.

Pj \fh rule-, the day where reason tules the n.inl.—C Him, Rn.rLAKm in Milking. —Our Amciican contcinpoiai j, Dairy, says legulanty in milking is \eiy essential to tin: maintenance of a constant yield of milk. This will be found very app.iient when a tidily weighing or estimate by measuiing the milk is kept During two yeais, in a daiiy of fifteen covv«, a iccord kept of each milking shows a constant lots eveiy Sunday when the morning milking was two hours later and the evenuig sometimes eailier. It is not dim'cult to undei stand the leason. A delay in milking not only distuihs the cows, but it has the efluct of producing congestion of the milk glands, by crowding them and overstocking the fine ducts by which tney aie chained. E\eiy excessive muscular or nervous action pioduces a concspouding leaction and a weakening of the excited organs. Besides, when the glands and fine ducts are filled, reabsoiption takes place ; and by delaying the milk still longei,acow may in time 1 c diied up and the milk pioduction wholly stopped by this pio cess of leabsoiption of the milk. Theit* may be an met cased quantity of milk at the delayed milking, but the next one and the next to that w ill be decreased When the irugularity is frequent, of couise the effect is gieatly mci eased and the injury coiicspondmgly gnater. Regulaiit} of feeding tends to the same effect, and theiefore regulaiity should stand next in the list of essential virtues for the proper condnctof a dany to cleanliness. Hugh Cowvay. —A contributor to Lif j says :—" I wrll rcmcnil er the first time I ever saw F.irgus. He had rooms in Cccil-stiect, and I called one evening to make the acquainntance^of the celabiatcd story-teller. He looked as little like a liteiaiy manas I have evci seen, lie might have been a hard woikmg carpenter, a sturdy backwoodsman, but never a sensitive, soul-inspired sciibbler. As he sat there smooking a shoit pipe, dicssed in a corduroy coat, he hardly looked like a man who had made a name by his brains" Yet his head was a fine one —full of chaiactei. A physiognomist would have said that his leading characteiistic was dettiinitiation. A shoit, stubbly Leard just covered a jaw and mouth an aitist would have chosen for an athlete —deep sunken eyes and a iueding fox-head went to make up a atiangely oh uactciistic f.ice. In a do/en vvoid.s he- told me all about himself. He was evidently used to worfihippeis, and he disposed of them with courtesy and decision. His deafness made him a littleaw-kw aid withatrangcis, but with hi* nioio intnpatc aerjiuintaneev the defect was hardly noticeable. He said—" I take Dufoe for my model. I never use long woxls when I can use short ones. I follow Defoe's method closely by attempting to give an air of rcnlism by the iibe of microscopic touches. I write and ie write my stones over and over again. I take the greatest pains over my plots, and every incident is carefully considered. Before I began to write " Daik Days " I made a prolonged study of the vaiious forms of monomania, and every incident in that story is as conect as if it had been written by a medical man. J had long consultations with one of the most eminent authorities on the subject, and he actually told me that I knew as much as ho did himself. So you see I don't woik in a slap dash style,"

A Beitfulau Fainting ■ Mr G. (J. fJn-di, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A., is presenting to dtuggista and others in tl.ia countiy sonic veiy fine pit/tines in oil of his magnificent house and giounds and laboratory at that place. Mr Orecn is the pioprictor of Bosehoc's CJerman Syiup and (ireen's August Flower, two veiy valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favour, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complainta, and the latter for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have attained an immense sale solely on their superior meiits and are sold by all diuggists throughout the world. The price is the same for each, '.U Gd pei bottle, or sample bottles for Od The c-dinplc bottles enable Miffeicrs to prove their value at a tufling cost.

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A Brooklyn shopkeeper advertises roller skates and court plaster. H« has a keen eye to the eternal fitnc6s of things. Litti.k girls believe in the man in the moon ; big girls in the man in the honeymoon. A imputation' of 100 unemployed operatives waiting upon the Board of Guardians at Wohcihampton recently, to ask for labour in the stone yard, but were infoi inert that they could only be assisted by admission as piupers into the woikhouse. During the past month & committee of ladies have provided free bieakfasts every morning to 300 children whose fatheis are out of employment. A coloured man was hanging around one of the opcia homes the other erening in a manner to show that he was deeply interested in what was going on inside, and a gentleman finally said, to him : "Why don't jou go in? Under the Civil Rights Bill jou can take a seat in the parquet ciicle." " Yes, sah, I know sail 'bout that, sah," was the reply. " Under Civil Rights Bill I ken take any scat in the house, but under the present stiain on my finances I couldn't buy two shingles if hull opera homes were scllm' for 10 cents apiece, sah." — Detroit Free Pi ess. Tiik Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent telegraphs that Madame Nilsson hai just gained the action w hich «ho brought against her husband's luir for the ie covciy of *207,000f and some 000 Panama share 0 . It was clearly piovcd to the Com t that the celebrated singci had io n ltted money to M. Auguste Kou/atid, her late husband, by diafts on her New Yoik bankets Mcinoianda in the handvwitingof .VI. Houziud were also put in showing lih acknowledgment for large sums, received fiom Madame jNilsson. Tin 1 litns weic accordingly defeated on all points, and have Ik en condemned to bird over a sum of 210,000f to the plaintiff. A Fki.m-h Ci-vim o\ f!oKDO.\. — It has been diseovcied bj r a Fieneh wntcrthat (JencraHtordon btloimcd to France. The writer in question, M. Oaiy, of C*hois, hns published in the last number of that maga/me a snmniaty of his researches on the subject, and he pioves entirely to his own satisfaction that "the family of (Jordon, the hero of Khartoum, established seveial ccntmics in Scotland, came originally fiom Queicy," This is no new kind of claim in Fiance. Theic aic many people in France who insist that Byron and Milton must have been of Fieneh extraction, and even the mine of Shakesptar becomes in their mouths Jacques Picric. Whf.n the hoopship Scrapis last left Bombay, the Duchess of Connanght entrusted a favouiite cat to a .Sergeant of the lioyal Artillery for conveyance to Knglanel. l"he cat appeals to ha\ c been in a delicate state of health — so the story goes — and, before ai riving in England, a litter of kittens weie bom. On leaching Poitsmouth, the s-ei grant was allowed to take away the cat ; but the authorities of the ship declined to pait with the kittens, for which the ship's company had a supeistitious rcgaid. Only one cat, they contended had beui cmlmr'ied, and they had no power to discharge any moie. It is stated that a bulky correspondence has alicady taken place on tlte subject, and the difficulty is as far as pvci from hcinir settled. In thee\eutof a child having bernboin on the ship, would the authoiities, asks a facetious oonterrpoiaiy, have lusisted ou their light to tctain it ? I'll i- iai'k Kuu, ov DrniiFV. — Tiie late Kail of Dudley had his life insuied in van mis Companies for the benefit of Lady Dudley, and the amount of the inMiianee money added to the dower seemed to hm by maniage sottlcmcnt, makes her one of the lichest women in England. The Society pipers contain many lefciences to the v ncaiies of the la*c Kai 1 and the constancy and devotion of tiie Counties. One leminiscence is given which indicates that the latter was devotedly attaekt <1 to hci own family as well as to her husband. Lady Mordannt, the defendant in the famous di voice case, is a younger sister to Lidy Dudley. Their father, the late Sir Thomas Moncieiire, was a comparatively poor man, and the expense of his dauuhtei's defence was a sci ions drain upon his resources. Just at the time the lawyers were pressing him the haidest, occiiied the famous robbery of the Dudley diamonds. According to the published account, these jewels wcie valued at £10,000. Shortly after the robbery ftir Thomas Moncrciffc settled w ith the lawyers. It has been hinted that theie was no lobbery, and that Mr Robert Attenborough, the aristocratic jeweller of Duke street could give a very accurate account of the disposition of the diamonds. ActoKDisc to the Academy, some inteicbting discoveiies have recently been made by Mr I. A. I'ethcriuk, who is wiiting a lnstoiy of European entcipiise in Austialasia for the Melbourne Review. It appeals that the name of "New Guinea' was oiiginally given, not to the great Papuan island, but to the northeastern paitof A.ustiiilii.l, now known as Queensland, by the commander of a Spanish vesslc which passed through To i res Strait in the yeai 1.H.1, 60 years be-foie Toi res came there. This voyage canics back authenticated Australian discoveiics (»1 yeais. But Mr Petherick lias also show n that the west coast was sighted by the survivois of Magellan's expedition on their return from the Moluccas in Ftbiuaiy and March, \o'2'2; and he is inclined to believe that both the east and west coasts of Australia were explored in the first decade of the loth centuiy by the Poitugucsc. All claims put foi waul dining the present century on behalf of Ficnch navigatois to these discoveries aie set aside by the fuithcr discovciy of a M.ippe-mondc, dated l")(i(5, by a Frenchman, in which, while taking cifdit for the discoveiics of his own countrymen in North and South America, he makes Australia— <./., Ja\c le Grand — vuth three Portuguese flags. Yes ! It is certainly true. Ask any of your friends who ha\c purchased there (i.irlick and Cranvvcll have numerous unasked for and very favouiable commendations from country customi rs «n their excellent packing of Furni-. ture, Crockery, and Glass, &c. Ladies any gentlemen about to furnish should remember that Garlick and Cranwrll's is nir Cheap Furnishing Warehouse- oi Auckland. Furniture to suit all classes ; also Carpets, Floor Cloths and all House Necessaries. If new house is nearly finished, or, you are (foinfr to get married, visit Girhck and Cranvvcll, Ouren-strert and Lome-street, Auckland Intending purchasers can have a < atalogue «co free.