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HEAT OF THE BODY1t Climatic Variations Do Not Affect'' Internal Conditions. MAN'S NORMAL TEMPERATURE t It Is 98. Degrees When Taken Under the Tongue Whether One Lives In the Arctic Regions or In the Tropics. Some Record Fever Temperatures. The normal temperature of a human being is generally given as 98.G de grees, but the statement must be slight- 1 ly qualified. It is the normal temper ature when taken by placing the ther- f mometer under the tongue or in the armpit or the groin. The surface temperature of the head, hands or' abdomen varies from 9G de grees to 93 degrees or even lower. That of the internal regions may go up to 102.2 degrees, that being the average heat of the blood circulating in the 1 liver and some other organs. But 98.G degrees is called the normal 1 temperature of a human being, and it doesn't matter whether he lives in the desert of Sahara or in Greenland, ac cording to a writer in the Technical World. Awake or asleep, at work or just loafing, a man's temperature re mains practically at this level. When it varies more than the fraction of a degree it is because the heat reg ulating mechanism is disarranged by disease or by abnormal conditions of 3 some sort. Excessively high measures 1 of heat may be borne for several min utes by an individual without raising his temperature more than a fraction of a degree. Persons who sometimes 1 are styled human salamanders have given .exhibitions of their ability. to stand high temperatures. There is an authentic case recorded of Martinez, the so called French sala mander, a baker by trade, who exposed himself to high temperatures from boy hood. He remained in an oven erected in the Tivoli gardens for fourteen min utes when the temperature in it was 338 degrees. His pulse on entering was seventy-six a minute and had reached 130 when he came out He often duplicated this performance. Chamouni, a celebrated Russian sal - amander, who called himself "the in combustible," used to go into an oven and. stay while a leg of mutton was roasted there, not coming out until the meat was well done. He eventually lost his life in one of these'perform- 1 ances. Fever is a rise of temperature above the normal level. This rise is seldom beyond 106 degrees. Mental and nerv ons infiuences may so act for a time as to disorder the -control of the ther motaxic nerve center and cause fever. It is interesting to note some of the high temperatures which are on med ical record as having actually occurred In certain diseases. Guy's hospital in London records the case of a hyster ical woman afflicted with tuberculosis of one lung who showed 120 degrees. At a ineeting of the Association of American Physicians in 1895 Dr. Ja cobi of New York reported a patient in whom fever reached the almost in credible figure of 148 degrees F. This case occurred in a hysterical fireman who had suffered a severe injury from a fall. In the discussion which followed the report of this case among the members of the association Dr. Welch of Balti-' more referred to a condition of hyper-1 thermy that had come to his knowl *edge in which the temperature was recorded as 1i1 degrees F. Of course such exceedingly high temperatures are of only short duration or death would ensue. Fever is not the only disturbance which may alter temperature. Certain conditions, especially those~ due to dis eases like tuberculosis, acute alcohol ism, melancholia, convalescence from fevers, poisoning from various drugs, and so forth. may cause the bodily warmth to become subnormal. In juries and surgical shock also origi *nate the same effect. Starvation al ways induces a gradual fall. Low temperatures are always dan gerous, and unless a reaction quickly ensues, by aid of relief measures, a * fatal termination may be expected. The lowest recorded during life that may be regarded as reliable is one re ported by Duffy in which the ther mometer registered S4 degrees F. * Ddath ensued the following day. The body, however, can withstand extreine cold more readily than it can extreme heat before the regulating center becomes disordered, and so, other things being equal, freezing to death is not as common in cold cli mates as sunstroke is in warm. Refused to Accompany Her. *A noted German lyric soprano, who may as well be nameless here, as she Is no longer before the public, devel oped in her later years a habit of sing ing out of tune. One night at a small .company, being asked to sing, she 'promptly consented, and her hostess then went to Otto Lessmann, the Ger man critic, who was present, and said: . "Herr Lessmann, will you accom pany Madam Blank?" "With pleasure. Where is she go ing?," ."Why, to sing." "No, pardon me, not there:'-New York Tribune. An Easy Remedy. HeYour milliner's bill cost me last year -as much as the salary of my two. bookkeepers. That is more than I can afford. She-Well, discharge one of them.-Fliegende Blatter. What the eye sees not the heart rues not.--Campion. .We often wonder how any person can be persuaded into taking anything but Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung trouble. Do not be fooled in- I accepting 'town make" or other substi-1 tutes. The genuine contains no harm-i ful drugs and is in a yellow package. W.t E. Brown &Co. Ben Franklin's Trick. ] Benjamin Franklin once wrote this letter to a man to whom he was lend Ing some money: "I send you herewith a bill for 10 louis d'ors. I do not pretend to give such a sum; I only lend it to you. When you shall return to your country you cannot fail of getting Into some kind of business that will in time en able you to pay all your debts. In that case when you meet with another hon est man in similar distress you must< pay me by lending this sum to him, enjoining him to discharge the debt by) a like operation when he shall be able) and shall meet with another opportu nity. I hope it may then go through many hands before it meets with aj knave to stop its progress. This is aj trick of mine for doing a deal of good 1i A Moqui Repartee. A cenain commissioner was given to reating the Indians with a scorn they lid not deserve. One day as he sat vith a great chief in his tepee, smok ng the pipe of peace, the chief enter ained him with many quaint legends. One of these dealt with a plague of custs, and the grim orator described n flowery language how they hag warmed over the land, eating every erb and green leaf and blotting out he light of day for very number. Then te concluded by remarking that it was tot until the medicine man made an fering of a silver locust to the Great pirit that the creatures disappeared. nd this they did swiftly and sudden Loudly the commissioner laughed he superstitious Indian to scorn. "Do you mean to say you're such ools as to believe that rubbish?" he sked. "Not much." replied the chief grave-, y "or we would have offered the ,reat Spirit a silver paleface long gol"-Philadelphia Telegraph. Heroic Husbands. Some women were discussing over heir afternoon tea the statement that . man is no more a hero to his wife han to his valet. There seemed to be to opposition to the idea that a 'nan's ervant did not appreciate him. but all toutly maintained that their husbands vere heroic in one way or another. "My husband is very heroic." said rs. Black. "For instance, he will ve up his visit to the club to play ackstraws with my old mother, and he is his mother-in-law. you know." "I think I can beat that," remarked Irs. Gray. "When my milliner's quar erly bill comes in my husband smiles .s he writes a check and never thinks if looking at the items." "I can give you a better example han either of those!" exclaimed Mrs. White. "When the morning paper mes at breakfast time my husband Iways offers me the first reading of t." An informal vote awarded the last peaker's husband the medal for hero sm.-Youth's Companion. When Boys Were Taught to Smoke. The habit of juvenile smoking In England in the seventeenth century ras practically universal. Jorevin de tochefort, a French traveler of that >eriod, in an account published in .671 gives a description of an evening te spent at Worcester. He was cate hized by one of the townsmen as to he-habits of the French people. "While we were walking about the own," he writes, "he asked me if It ras the custom in France, as In Eng and, that when the children went to chool they carried in their satchel rith their books a pipe of tobacco rhich their mother took care to fill wary in the morning, it serving them nstead of breakfast, and that at the Lecustomed hour eviry one laid aside is book to light his pipe, the master imoking with them and teaching them ow to hold their pipes and draw in heir tobacco, thus accustoming them :o it from their youth. believing it ab ,olutely necessary for a man's health." -St. James' Gazette. Telling Electric Currents. It is often desirable or interesting to ind out whether the current in an ectric light circuit is continuous or tternating. The appearance of an in :andescent lamp to the naked eye Is recisely the same in both cases. It nay be desired. for instance, to use a mall motor, and those for use with :he two kinds of currents are of en irely different construction. If a small nagnet be held near a lighted incan lescent lamp the filament, if a contin sous current is gissing through it. will simply bend slightly as the, mag ret nears it. 'If, on the contrary, the ,urrent is alternating the filament will ,egin to vibrate, which will make it ok as if it were continually cha-ging thickness. . The magnet used may e a sniall one, easily carried about in :he pocket--Chicago Record-Herald. Doing Their Duty. The Teacher-Children, we make he roes of ourselves by doing our duty. Perry's duty was to whip the British, md he did it. The light brigade's duty was to attack the Russians without uestion, and they did it. All great eroes won their victories by doing teir duty. Children, we have our du ties. What should we do for the weak, the suffering, the oppressed? Chorus of Pupils-Sail In an' lick 'em--Cleveland Leader. The Talkative One. Nearsighted Guest (at banquet) presume the next thing will be a Long and tiresome speech from some talkative guy. Man Sitting Next-Oh, suppose so. I'm the talkative guy that has to make the speech.-Chicago Tribune. Her Claim. Mrs. Gillet-So there is a tablet in y'our transept tqgher memory. Did she 1o anything to bring people into the :hurch? Mrs.- Perry-Well, I guess! She wore a new hat every Sunday for three years.-Harper's Bazar. Then He Was Fired. Editor (to aspiring writer)-You should write so that the, most ignorant :an understand what you mean. As pirant-Well, what part of my para graph don't you understand? Very Wise. Photographer-Look pleasant, please. Victim-I should say' not. I want to send this picture to my wife, who [s visiting her parents. If I look too happy she'll return home. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.-Pub tis Syrus. Words to Freeze the Sor.. "Your son has Consumpt=.oa. His case hopeless." These apr,alling words rere spoken to Geo. E. Blev'ens, a lead og merchant of Springfield, N C., by wo expert docors-one a lung specia it. Then was shown the wonderful ower of Dr. King's New Discovery.' 'After three weeks use." writes Mr. slevens, '-he was as well as ever. I rould not take all the money in the rorld for what it did for in' boy." In a~llible for Coughs and Colds, its the afest, surest cure of desperate Lung seases on earth. 50c. and $1.00 at Dr. V. .Bown & Co., and J. E. Arant. Tea Made of White Hair. "This is white hair you are drink' ng," said the Chinese undersecretary. "White hair' Nonsense! It is deli ioous tea." The undersecretary laughed in his ilac brocade sleeve. "No. white hair," ue insisted. "White hair-that is, in ny language, for pekoe means white uair. This tea is called pekoe because ts leaves were gathered so young that he white downy hairs still grew on THE MAGIC OF HOUDIN Remarkable Cleverness of the Famous French Conjurer. HIS MOST WONDERFUL FEAT A Mysterious Performance Before the Court of Louis Philippe That Was Probably the Result of a Subtle Bit of Psychological Reasoning. A link connecting the names of Cagli ostro, the great charlatan, and the French conjurer Robert ZIoudin may be found in a story that may be justly termed "The Most Incredible Feat of Magic Ever Performed." In 1S4G Houdin. then at the height of his popularity, was invited to St. Cloud to give a performance before the king, the royal family and court. The conjurer had only his young son as an assistant and could rely on no tricks of light or mechanism, as the exhlbi tion was given in one of e drawing rooms of the palace. He finished with the following extraordinary perform ance: Borrowing several handkerchiefs ':e wound them into a package, which ne laid on the table. Then he went about among the guests distributing cards on which were to be written the names of places to which it was desired that the package be invisibly transported. Houdin then handed the cards to the king, asking him to select three at haz ard and from them choose the destina tion he liked best. The first card read, "I desire the handkerchief to be found beneath one of the candelabra on the mantelpiece." "That," said the king. "is too easy for the ability of a conjurer of the ability of M. Houdin." The second read, ."The handkerchiefs are to be taken to the dome of the Invalides." "That," commented the king,. "is bet ter. However, it is much too far, not for the handkerchiefs, but for us. The third card suits me," said the king.- "It is desired that you should send the handkerchiefs into the chest of the last orange tree oii the right of the avenue." Houdin expressed his willingness to attempt the feat, and the king whis pered an order that immediately sent a group of attendants to guard the or ange tree in question. The conjurer placed the package of handkerchiefs under an opaque glass bell and then, waving a wand, order ed the package to proceed to.the place chosen by the king. When the bell was raised the' handkerchiefs were gone, but in t'eir place was a white turtledove. A trusted attendant was sent to tLe orange tree to' open the chest. He returned bearing a small iron coffer covered by rust. "Are the handkerchiefs in this cof fer?" asked the king. "Yes, sire, and they have been there, too, for a long time." "How can that be possible? The handkerchiefs were given you hardly a quarter of an hour ago." "Yet It is so, and your majesty will be even more surprised when I prove that this coffer and its contents were placed in the chest of the orange tree sixty years ago. Deign to remove from the neck of the turtledove the key of the casket." Louis Philippe unfastened a .ribbon holding a small rusty key. unlocked the coffer, found a document bearing the seal of Cagliostro and -read: This day, the 6th of June. 1786, this Iron box, containing six handkerchic'z placed among the roots of an orange. 'ret by me, Balsamo, count of Cagliostro, ta serve In performing an act of magic which will be executed on the same day sixty years hence before Louis Phlippe of Orleans and his family. Beneath the parchment copveying this message was found a package con tining what seemed to be the six handkerchiefs placed on the table. a few minutes before. In his memoirs M. Houdin offers no solution for the mystery. A shrewd annalist has ex plained it as being no more than a clever bit of psychology on the part of the conjurer, who knew the charac ter of Louis Philippe and knew him to be exceedingly clever in small things. -Bookman. His Qualifications. He was pleading his cause earnestly. "I am wealthy," he said. "and could make ample provision for you."' She nodded and checked one point off on her fingers "I have had experience with the world," he continued She checked off another point "I have passed the frivolous point," he went on, "and I have the steadfast ness, the age and the wisdom to guard and guide you well." He paused for an answer. "The points you make are strong ones," she said. "but they lead undeviat ingly to the conclusion that you would make an exc'llent father for me. You have all the necessary qualifications, but just now I am looking for a hus band"-New York Times. Considerate. "Have you done anything to earn the gratitude of the people?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "although they don't know about it. I have let them off of a lot of speeches I was tempted to make."-Washington Star. - Politician and Patriot. Teacher-What is the difference be tween a politician and a patriot? Scholar-A patriot does something for his country; a politician does his coun try.-Pittsburg Press. It Is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.-Syrus. Up Before the Bar. N. H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts ied. Vt. writes: "We have used Dr. King's New Life Pills for years and find them such a good family n-edicine we w ouldn't be without them." For Chills, Constpation. Billiousness or Sick Head ache they worw wonders, at Dr. W. E. Brown &Co.. andJ. E. Arant. Signs of Improvement. "So your daughter is improving in her piano playing?" "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox. "You enjoy it?" "No. But it doesn't make me as nervous as It used to."-Washington Star. ________ Very Formal. "Could youse give dat gent at de gate a small handout, mum?" "Why doesn't he ask for himself ?" "Oh. it's up to me to do dat. I'm his social secretary."--Louisville Cou rier-ournal. Peace hath higher tests of manhood an ba++leaener1rnew--Whittle BAIT FOR ALLIGATORS. The Way a Mexican Indian Gathers In the Ugly Beasts. A Pinto Indian of eastern Tabasco adopted a novel method of catching alligators. The Indian's weapons were a harpoon, a stout club and a coil of tarred lariats. For bait he used a sucking pig, a box of something which smelled offensively and several chunks of half roasted meat. Selecting an overhanging bough about six yards from the water's edge, the Indian stripped off its leaves and suspended from the fork the squealing pig. That was the bait for the eyes and ears of the alligator. Opening the box, he used its offen sive contents to grease a string, one end of which he tied to a bush, and, weighting the other with a piece of wood, threw it into the river. That was the nose bait. Between the thicket and the water's edge was a long sand dam, capped with a row of gnarled logs. Taking the chunks of meat, he placed them at equal intervals between the beach and the ridge of the dam. "This is my grub bait," said the Indian. "It will make him mount the barreea" (barricade). Stimulating the pig with a lick that caused it to squeal for the next ten minutes, the Indian waited in ambush, harpoon in ban<. One end of a long lariat was fastened to it and the other to a tough elastic sapling. The sun had set and it was growing dark when a dark object was seen to rise slowly from the water and sprawl up the dam. The first chunk of roast bait was gob bled. "He's smacking his chops!" chuckled the Indian. "It's the same one eyed old sinner that owes me two pigs, but he's going to pay his debts." Gobbling the second chunk, the ali gator crawled on, -swallowing the third, and at the sight of the hanging pig stopped and glared. . Suddenly he pushed forwerd and fell into a sandy hollow behind the dam. Instantly he turned and headed for the dam. Up sprang the Pinto and hurled the harpoon through his scaly hide. "I got you this time!" he shout ed. Jerked back by the tension of the lariat. the alligator made the leaves fly with his switching tail and would have snapped the rope if the elasticity of the sapling had not broken the force of his spring as he plunged forward again and again. Seizing the club and jumping -around the floundering prisoner, the Indian dealt him a whack across the head that laid him sprawling on his back. Three more blows, and the alligator had paid his debt-xNew York World. A WARNING DREAM. The Vision Lincoln Saw Several Times In His Sleep. Xapoleh believed devoutly in dreams as warnings or even as fore casts of what was to come. and even he who most prides himself upon his freedom 'from superstition knows of or has experienced at least one dream that cannot be explained as a mere result of overfeeding. When we contemplate dreams. and their ramifications science can help us but little in their explanation. Willie Collins showed this to be so in one of his most ingenious novels, "Armadale." Warning dreamas or premonitions may be the result of natural laws which we do not understand. Lincoln was not counted supersti tious because he had some confidence in the prophetic character of one dream, at least, for it visited his sleep an several occasions,'and he spoke of a, seriously ts members of his. family and to his closest friends. In telling of this vision he said he seemed to be in "a singular, indescribable vessel, but always the same, moving with great rapidity toward a dark and in definite shore." The dream preceded several marked incidents during his occupancy of the presidential chair, notably before the battles of Amtietam. Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. On the morning of the memorable 14th of April be informed mer ers of his cabinet ~that he had dreat. d this, same thing the night before and be lieved that they were ona the threshold of some momentous issue. So im pressive were his remarks that bis auditors were profoundly moved, but no seer among them could read the warning aright and foresee the awful news of his assassination which should be 'flashed that night to a stunned and horrified people!-Philadelphia Ledger. An Odd Old Custom.. When a new associate of the Royal academy is elected some of the acade my models dash off with the news, and the first to arrive with the glad tidings . at the house of the fortunate artist is. by custom rewarded with a guinea. It says much for the honesty of artists' models as a class that no case is known of one of them having obtained this guinea by false pretenses from some obscure and wealthy amateur.-London Punch. Not Her Fault. "It is the duty of every man and wo man to be married at the age of twen ty-two," said the lecturer. "Well," said a womnan of thirty, with some asperity, "you needn't tell me that. Talk to the men."-Philadelphia Ledger. ______ IConsideration. 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Shortly after a servant whispered to Mrs. Brooke that a gentleman was waiting below to speak to her. Running down stairs, the fair novelist found the ven erable lexicographer. "Madam," said he ponderously, "I sent for you down stairs that I might kiss you, which I did not choose to do before so much I WT A PLUMBER BORN. The Beginner Who Was Sent to Find a Leak and Failed. Pipes & Fassitt ran a busy shop. They had men cut working the eight hour day in the Washington heights district. They had helpers out, too, at the regular rates. Monday morning had opened up with a rush. Joints were bursting, and bathtubs were flowing over. Fassitt generally followed up the jobs, seeing that they were covered. Pipes held the desk down and made out the bills. Presently the door pushed open. and a hardy looking young fellow came in. He handed a note to Mr. Pipes. Pipes read it. "Please, sir," said the young fellow. "Don't 'please' anybody here." said Pipes. "Riley says yon're a good man and willing to work. Siddown:" The hardy looking young fellow sat for five minutes; then the telephone rang. "Get that off the wire." said Pipes. The young man got it. "It's Mr. Silverberg that owus the big apartment house on St. Niebolas avenue. His star tenant complains of a leak in the ceiling from the floor overhead." "You take that wrench and go over," said Pipes. "Locate the floor. Get around to Congdon's. where we've got a contract. and lift a helper. Go back and find the leak. Then report to me. Don't hurry too much." The young man departed, returning in a couple of hours. "Nothing doing, Mr. Pipes," he said. "The tenant overhead spilled some wa ter in a corner of the kitchen. It ran under the sink and followed the pipe line to the floor below. That was all." Pipes kept on making out bills. A ninety cent clock got along to 12 just as the noon whistle blew outside. Then Pipes rose up sadly. "Here's sitting time," he said. "Take the money. You'll- need it A tenant imagines a leak. The owner wants to pay for repairing the leak. You were sent to find it You failed. Some day you may be an angel, but you will never be a plumber. Goodby!"-New York Sun. MIXED METAPHOR. The Wonderful Feat That Was Per formed by a Bottle. An amateur historian is responsible for this: "All along the ever flowing stream of history you can liscern the silent footprints of the crowned heads of Europe." The village reporter on the death of the village poet: "That dauntless pen shall write no more, for' its eyes are closed forever." t From the speech of a rising young politician: "The fierce light of public opinion shall dog their footsteps until it strangles them. Then shall they swal low the bitter pill anq drink its very dregs." Advice and warning from' a success. ful man of business to a gathering of young people: "Every runig in the lad der of success is paved with slippery stones, on which only the clear head and the steady hand can retain their footing." The fearless suffragette was address ing a meeting of mere mien. She had graphically related to them the fas cinating story of the strenuous strug gle the ladies -had made for that most priceless of possessions, a vote; how every obstacle had been conquered and victory was at last in sight. "We have now." she shrieked, "almost crossed the trackless desert, and the harbor lights are stretching out their arms to greet us!" The temperance adv--. .ite was giving a striking but a true picture "of the vast amount of evil wrought by the demon of drink, and the fact that he occasionally got somewhat mixed in his metaphors did .not derogate from the truth that underlay his remarks. 'What is the greatest devastating agent of our time?" he asked. "It is the bottle, which smiles genially be fore your face while at the same time It is stabbing you in the back."-T. P.'s London Weekly. His Plausible Excuse. Magistrate-This affair looks to me more like a common dog fight than a case of assault and battery. You clainm that this man assaulted you and that you did not even try to defend your self, yet he bears the marks of your teeth in three places. How do you ac count for that? Plaintiff-Well, it was jest like this. He hurt me so when he was a-pound in' of me that I had ter have sumthin' ter bite on. or I couldn't 'a' stood it Los Angeles Times. East Indian Proverbs. An old English proverb: "Cut your coat according to your cloth." The following Is a similar proverb in In dia: "Look at your bed before stretch ing your legs on it." "Don't ask for sauce in . a free boarding house," is another Indian proverb which is some thing like the English proverb. "Beg gars must not be choosers." A Person of Note. 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