A Simple Cure for Headache.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2081, 7 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Simple Cure for Headache.

A medical paper calla attention to a simple and at the fame time wonderfully efficient treatment for many kinda of headache. It ia nothing more or less than a solution of the bisulphide of carbon. A wide mouth glassstoppered bottle ia half-filled with^otton or a fine sponge, and upon this two or three urachins of tho solution are poured. The raoufh of the bottla ia to ha applied to the temple, or as near as possible to the seat of pain, so elosoly that none of the volatile vapour may escape, and retained there four or five minutes, or longer. It may be reapplied, if necr-Bsary, several times in the day, and it generally acts like magic, jjiviug immediate relief.

The Princess of Wales has been made a Dootor of Music by the Dublin Uuiver3ity. She took the degree with the due degree of coolness, and looked real sweet in a college cap and doctoral gown.

Dr. Flint is reported as having said that many lives are lost by starvation owing to an over-estimate of the nutritive value of beef tea and meat juioes. In typhus and typhoid fevers, he says, there is no good substitute for milk and eggs.

Tnn Baroness Pritcha, who lately figured in a social sensation at Biarritz, is the daughter of an Englishman and & Siamese woman. She was expelled from Siani by the king, and collected ono hundred thousand dollars damages from him therefore by the aid of English influence. Having run through with that sum she sold herself to the King of Bambodia as a slave for four thousand dollars.

A remark of Mr. Howells in the course of his late rpading jn Boston, at the Author's Fond benefit, as to " llovv much easier it is to make one'a peace with one's God than with ono's wife," seem* to have especially tickled the risibilities of the clergy' on the plat form, for Bishop Potter is reported to have laughed until he was red in the face, and Bishop Coxa laughed until he cried.