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APPENDICITIS. The Diiciup in Mnr? Frequent With Youiic Tiiun Old. Tlio vermiform appendix, inflammation of which constitutes appendicitis, is a curious little offshoot from the large intestine near the point where it is ioiued bv the small intestine. It is a hollow tube about as thick as a leadpencil, from an inch to several inches length, which commuaicates with the cavity of the large intestine but is closed at its free extremity. Nobody knows definitely what its use is, and many think it has no nse at all. It is a popular belief that inflam-mation of the appendix is often caused by the lodgment in it of a grape-seed or some similar little body, but as a matter of fact this very seldom occurs, and no one need deprive himself of a delicious and nourishing fruit from auy such fear. There are probably very few persons of middle age who have not had appeudicitis, but fortunately they did not Know it. It is only when the in 1 tlammation becomes severe, aim involves the parts abont the appendix, that violent symptoms appear, and this occurs in only a small proportion of case?. The disease is more frequent with the young than with the middie-aged or old. In mild cases the only symptom is a slight dull or colicky paiu in or near the right groin. When the iuflamraution'is more severe, or extends to the neighboring parts, the symptoms become more pronounced. There is a sharp pain in the abdomen, signs of dyspepsia?loss of appetite, nausea or vomiting, aud bowel disturbances? are present, aud there is often slight fever. In tho most serious cases a sudden, violent pain occurs, there is marked fever, and tho patient is depressed and presents all the signs of being very ill Hiccough is often a distress- I lag symptom. The treatment of appendicitis is one of the points upon which doctors disagree. fjonie believe that iu nearly every case u care will follow rest iu ! bed, a milk diet, cold applications to the abdomeu and sedative remedies. Others assert that an operation is necessary in every instauce, and that this should be performed the iustaut a diagnosis of appendicitis is made, before serious symptoms appear. The proper course, here as elsewhere, is ddnbtless the middle one, for in rnaDy caseT au operation is absolutely necessary to save life, while in others recovery will take place without subjecting the patient to this serious risk. In any case a sufferer from appendicitis is iu danger, and should he uuder the constant care of his phy/ sioiau.?Youth's Compauiou. Projectile Air. Physicians in South Africa now have another theory for explaining away the charges made by both Briton and Boer that the other is using explosive bullets. The cxteusive laceration often found in bullet wounds is now said to be due to the air which the bullet drives before it into the wour.il. The existence of this phenomenon tan bo proved easily. If a round bullet be dropped into a glass ff/Mrt flin hainrlif /\f o f ?> TV fppf it will be seen that when the bullet touches tho bottom a large bubble of air will become detached and rise to the surface. In this case the bubble will usually be from ten to twenty times the size of the bullet. Now, a Manser bullet traveling at high speed is said to carry before it a bubble of compressed air of largo dimensions. Experiments made by a surgeon who tired a pistol ball into a glass of water showed tbo bubble to be one hundred times the size of the ball. From tbe appearauee of the wonnds and from these experiments it is coiuluded that the mass of air driven by a Mauser bullet explodes iu the body of the wounded man with sufficient force to cause extensive ; laceration. This destructive air bubble is well known to surgeons under tbe name of projectile air. 8ta~e Snow Storms. "Ton niieht not think it," said a prominent glove manufacturer of Paris to a representative of the New York Commercial, "but the theatres Lave to couie to our back door to get material to help them out in their beautiful stage effects. Waste glove clippings ate now almost universally used for making snow in winter scenes. Every wanderer and outcast you see shivering through these fierce Siberian snow storms is perishing in a shower of clippings of whito kid glove material. "Theatrical people tell me these clippiugs of kid gloves are touch better than the paper snow formerly used. 1 think the superiority of kid glove clippings over paper is that they ^ cling better to the clothing of the perishing outcasts. "The knowledge of this bit of stage illusion rather destroys the effect of a stagey snow storm forme, and I find iuyself iuvolnutarily selecting plays that have nothing but warm weather iu them."?Glove Makers. An EnsIUliman Un<!*r?tani1s. "I understand Now York is ou an islaudV" saiil the Englishman on his way to this country for the first time. "How long a journey is it %to the Continent?"?New York fiun. . _? ->.h /, *.a - * i > < , The ' I i i PSnkhmm Remedies For disorders of tho feminine organs have gained their great renown and enormous sale beoauso of the permanent good they have done and are doing for the women of this countrym If all ailing or suffering women could be made to understand how absolutely true are the statements about Lydia Em Finkham's Vegetable Compound, their sufferings would endm Mrs. Pinkh^m counsels women free of charge? //er address Is Lynn, Mass, The advloe she gives Is practical and honest, You can write freely to her; she Is a woman. "/^OTTON ^Culture" k the name i I of a valuable illustrated pamphlet which should be in the hands of every planter who raises Cotton. The book is sent Free. Send name and address to GERMAN" KALI WORKS, Nassau Now York. ATTENTION U facilitated if you mention thi- paper when wri'incadvei ti.e"*. So. 21 'j without them. You will find ; you will be well by taking? To any needy mortal suffering from box Sterling Remedy Compa g RICH IN RESOURCES Some Splendid Opportunities Are Open in the Australian Colonies. Queensland is nraetically undevel oped as yet. and Jt is only 40 years old. that having been the time since its separation as a colony. It contains nearly 700.000 square miles, and has only 500,000 population. North Queensland has a population of only 100,000, and yet it is an exceedingly rich section in natural resources. Charter Towers, 82 miles west of Townsville. the principal gold mining section, produced 457,850 ounces of gold in 1898, of the value of $5,784,720, and the total output of gold for the colony during the past year was 920,048 ounces, valued at $13,751,775. The colony has produced, up to date, minerals to the value of $225,000,000. Copper, silver.tin, etc., are some of the minerals existing in large quantities. Within the next few years there will be a tremendous output of copper, as a railroad is being built to the very rich Chilagoe mines. North Queensland is a great grazing * -- -i: ? ~ V.rv country, ana, as me cumaic aim mc abundance of native grasses are all favorable to grazing, the profit on sheep and cattle is very large. There are numbers of sheep ranches on which, there are 100,000 sheep, one of which has 1,230,000 head. Cattle raising is also extensively engaged in, the exports of cattle from the northern portion of the colony alone being 2,500 head a day for ten months in the year. A herder can sell cattle at?with a profit?$3 a head, and when he gets $10, as he often does, the profit is very great.?Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Shall Craduates Wear Black Cowns? SIIAfJ* Graduates Wear Black uowns Tlie question of the abandonment of the white dress in which "the sweet girl graduate" Ls wont to appear is agitating the sewn young larlies or the senior class of the Central High School of South Bethlehem, Penr,. Some of the young ladies favor the adoption of the college cap and black gown, while others cling to the timehonored skirts and flowers. The seven young ladies are willing to don the caps ami gown if their Mlow classmates of the other sex do likewise. Timber Trees Advancing. Prof. C. E. Bessey announces in a letter to Science, that he has obtained evidence that trees, including such species as oak. hickory, willow, cottonwood. elm and box elder, are rapidly advancing in Eastern Nebraska. The areas covered by them are gradually creeping up the courses of the streams and spreading out internally. In some cases the "tree belt" along rivers has, within twenty-five years, increased in width from 100 feet to half a mile, and even a mno. ????Tj] No matter ho 55%VQ health, good he joyment. Bow< ) ^ pains than all ot you get a gooc J K/ through the bloc J-?J&i. of people are do< * O started with' ba ) yV /f \A get better till th? yO \ f how it is?yot ZT L_) / f I I suffer with a sli| \ Jk\y l\Jj mouth mornings II I during the day/ .I worse untill th /i II loses its charms, / has been driven / bowels with CA slightest irregul. natural, easy m RETS tone the 1 i auu <uku yuu j wonder why it ill your other disorders commence t E IDEAL LAXATf S'DY CATHARTa vel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARE7 ay, Chicago or New York, mentioning advert Shopping in Scotland. The Scotch have their own idea of a "bargain day." and their view is not , without a touch of shrewdness. A London paper describes a conversation between an English matron and Mr. Angus Mclvcr. I "I suppose, Mr. Melver." said she, "that they have bargain days in CJlaa- . gow ?" "Ma conscience, no! It wad na do aval" Indeed!" replied the la.ly. "Why, I thought bargain days would just suit your people!" "YVeel," said he, "that's .iuis: It. It t wad suit them ower wee!. If they had bargain days, nnebody wad buy ouything on the ither days, ye ken!" j 1 ? i The Execution of Lead. "While Presbytery had been fighting Its victorious battle in the Jerusalem ' Chamber," writes John <Morley In the February Century, "the man whose bad ( steering had wrecked his church was sent to the block. The execution of Archbishop Laud (January 10, 1645) is the best of all the illustrations of the hard temper of the time. Laud wag more than seventy years old. He had been for nearly five*years safe under lock and key in the Tower. His claws were effectually clipped, and it was certain that he would never again be aKIa f/\ Ar\ TT\ 1 Vi iof Af if ho TL'GVO thaf I OUIC tv UW liliov. Uivt, VI II uv <> Viv, ?uwv such mischief as he could do would be too trivial to be worth thinking of in sight of such a general catastrophe as could alone make the old man's return to power possible. The execution of Strafford may be defended as a great act of retaliation or prevention, done with grave political purpose. So, plausibly or otherwise, may the execution of King Charles. No 3uch high considerations justify the execution of Laud, several years after he had committed the last of his imputed offenses and had been stripped of all power of ever committing more. It is not necessary that we should echo Dr. Johnson's lines about Rebellion's vengeful talons seizing on Laud, and Art and Genius weeping round his tomb; but if we rend the veil of romance from the Cavalier, we are bound not to be overdazzled by the halo of sanctity In the Roundhead." I I Save ths Lab els I I and write for lint of premium* we offer I " free for theni. 0 HIRES 8 RootbeerTee favorite I J ^ SUm^er 1 w pleasant your surroundings, alth, is the foundation for entrouble causes more aches and :her diseases together, and when 1 dose of bilious bile coursing >d life's a hell on earth. 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