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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1877)
October. HOW TO TAKE CARE OP THE TEETH. Some time ago the Odontography Society of Philadelphia offered a prize for the best MM on the care of the teeth, the same to be published for the benefit of the public. The prize was awarded for the following rales for preserving the teeth: 1. Cleanse your teeth once, or oftener, every day Always cleanse them before retiring at night Always pick the the teeth and rinse the mouth after eating. 2. Cleansing the teeth consists in thoroughly removing every particle of foreign substance from around the teeth and gums. 3. To cleanse, use well-made brushes, soft quill or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic toothwash and precipitated chalk. If these fail apply to a reliable dentist. 4. Always roll the brush tip and down length wiso of the teeth, by which means you may avoid injuring the gums and necks of the teeth, and more thoroughly cleanse between them. 5. Never use a dentifrice containing acid, al kali, charcoal, snap, wit or ivnv iTittv or pow erful detersive substance, 6. Powders and pastes generally are objec tionable. They injure the gums and soft parts of tho teeth, and greatly assist in forming tar tar. A wash, properly medicated and carefully prepared, is pleasanter and more beneficial. It dissolves the injurious secretions and deposits, and the whole is readily removed with the brash and water. 7. Avoid eating hot food. Thoroughly mas ticate and insalivate the food before swallowing it Frequent indulgence in sweetmeats, etc., between regular meals disturbs the process of digestion, and a viscid secretion is depoiited in the mouth (from tho stomach) which in very in jurious to the teeth. 8. Parents, carefully attend to your children's second dentition, (iently prevail upon them, atan early age, to visit at frequent intervals a careful and slcillful operator. Itemember that four of the permanent doublo teeth come in at about the age of six years. They are very liable to decay early, are very large, and should never 1ms allowed to require extracting. Children do not "shed" their teeth as they did in former ages. Instead of beiug trained to masticate nutritious food, they are tempted with and allowed to "gulp down" delicacies, hot cakes, hot beverages, eto. Thus, by depriving the teeth of their natural function and overtasking the stomach, a morbid condition of the general system is produced; the "first teeth" are prematurely decayed, and the iermancut Bet are not matured at tho proper period of dentition. The consequences are ter rible. 9. Never allow any one to extract a tooth or to dissuade you from having them tilled, unless absolutely necessary. Many Bo-called dentists, actuated by selfish motives, advise extracting, and sacrifice teeth which competent operators can render serviceable for many years. 10. Carelessness and procrastination are re sponsible lor a large majority of teeth that lost Bad Rivbtino. A writer in the I'olyttthnie. Review states that some time ago having occa- emu hi uau noiuu ooucr uasunga wim iniR!-Sect attached, he started to take the sheets off, com mencing by chinning, hut finding, after a time that lie could save labor by hammering the rivet heads, the result was about on an average, three blown irilh a iouml and a half hammer per rivet to drive it completely away from its head. Now tail is what might lie called bad riveting, and it was perfectly new, naving never Decn used. The result of a high steam pressure, on such work may readily be imagined. And yet says the writer, we do not know that there are not hundreds of boilers in nearly tho same condi tion, running very nearly up to their full capacity. Even though the work may not be so bad when new, corrosion will make itconstautly worse, when leaks may start, and caulking is of no ore; nothing but new rivets will answer. The rivets under diacusaion, were cut too short in the first place, and consequently the heads were under the proper size; then they were hammered too much, and a crack started around the head, and the whole structure of the iron ruined, as could be seen by examining them after they were removed. A good plan to pre vent flawing the head in such a manner (in ad dition, of course, to good work) would be, to counter-sink the holes in the sheet on tho side of the heading, so as to form a fillet under the head which would serve the same as a lillet in castings, to avoid cracks. THE WEST SHORE. 21 THE FAKIR. India possesses a class of religious mendicants whose religion teaches them to endure hardship of all kinds, and to indict Win themselves cas- tigations so severe that they often fall victims to their strangely misdirected zeal. .Mohamme danism also has kindred devotees, with whom Americans who may have traveled in Turkey or Egypt will be familiar. We refer to the howl ing and dancing dervishes. But whatever sufferings the disciple of Christ or Mohammed ohotflM to suffer for the sake ot his religion, they are scarcely to be compared with those the fakir (pronounced fah-keer) will undergo on purpose to reach Brahma's bosom. and he will tax his ingenuity to its utter extent to invent, perfect or vary the horrible cruelties he commits upou himself in his mistaken idea of what will be grateful to his (iod. Some of them will fast for days, even weeks, others will make a vow to bend an arm behind their back, or stand on one leg so long that the muscles of the limb shrink in and prevent It from ever araill iakilu' its n.iliiml nnetittAti On ok . the writer saw in Kurraehce (Stud), who paused ma huh III IIHUC UllOnillOU, NUtllllllg Oil OIIC leg upon a big stone without any protection against a torrid sun, and never descending his How Fine Dark Cwarh may bk Made According to a little brochure, published lately by M. Haase,icigar manufacturer in Bremen, and reviewed by the English Mechanic, the ar tificial coloring of cigars is daily becoming more common. Most of the smoking public prefer strong and dark-colored cigars to the light and bright-colored. M. Haase reports that 76 per cent, oi nis purcnasera oruer me lormcr, ami only '24 per cent the latter. It is further known that most cigar-smokers prefer a cigar of a regular brownish color to an irregularly -oolored, red, dun, or spotted cigar. On the other hand, the folor of raw tobacco tends rather to bright that to dark, and the bad crops ot ine past year nave lurmaaea mucn bedloreditobtcco. Hence, with an increas ing proportion of bright-colored and bad colored tobacco, and the demand for the dark tobacco, the use of coloring sauces has in creased. These sauces are all of pretty harm lew ingredients, generally some dilute dye wood extract in ammoniac solution; bat, in deed, these extracts contain no natural tobacco color. M. Haase condemns the practice; any artificial alteration of a natural product like tobacco, in order to give it a better look, is in itself improper. Then the natural color of the covering leal it of essential influence on the strength of the cigar, and most smokers lay great value on the color, But ith artificial coloration, the judgment is deceived, and a right inference from the external color to the qoabty of the cigar rendered impossible. Rub bishy cigars can, by coloring, be passed off for good Hence til artificial coloring of cigars with such sauces moat be regarded as a fsJtifi cation of the goods for deception of the public tl-OOm lllHlll 1 Hli'llnl to .1 I-i-A ... . mu ngni mo ment of the outbreak. When the time came they presented themselves before the Sepahis With a lotus leaf (the sacred plant of India), and it was the bvgiunmg of a series of atroei ties which cannot be decriled. The fakir ah,,.-.. M. ..: tating under a tree upon the banks of the lian- wimi iw HMsssnTinBiH may, tor aught we know, be calling the vengeance "of Krishna tin- ,1. s.1.,1, r lllutn tli.. t.. I near by who disturb his saintly thoughts, by WM1IS ""m wings uves near pr, an action which is the most heinous sin in the religion of the Brahma, COPPERAS AS A DISINFECTANT. Copperas (sulphate of iron) is largely used as a disinfectant for the miasmatic exhalations. According tosomo researches into its use by the Politrcmic ttnkw it is of dwutfa value for such purpose. It claims that the sulphate of iron, Hint of n, nVSkt the eMofMl of lime, t nof a hygienic disinfectant. Although it is PphJOnodl to higher forms of life, there appears to lie no evidence that it acts destructively upon the lowers forms of organisms, as diwa the chlo ride. One of the l -f illii.it rati,,,.. n..i i... offered to prove conclusively that the sulphate is oat ii poison to um minute hie rami, deve -mmmI ilnrlno nnWutlm J .1 :',, . by the strong deposition of our ( common THE FAKIR. pedestal but to artake of a little boiled rice, or to snatch a few moments of Bleep when over taxed nature became too exhausted. Others, again, will bury themselves in the ground up to the head and Buffer the bites of termites (white nut- or other tropical insects, whose bite it equally painful. In fact there is no suffering these poor deluded heathen can tnink oi tney will not cheerfully ami readily undergo on purpose to deserve the right of en trance to the seventh heaven. Vet all fakirs do not subject themselves to such folteriugs; but all believe it a duty to fast mocb and often. High-caste Hindoos being strict vegetarians, even when rich, have but little variety in their food, but the fakir who it an ascetic, has but one article of food, rice, which he eats spar ingly. The consequence is that fakirs are the most Bkeleton-like beings it it possible to see; their thinness being tho more apparent from the fact that they scarcely ever have more covering than a rag around their loins. Fakirs are greatly reverenced by the igno rant castes in India, and their revelations, which are often but the ravings of a diseased brain. lisU-netl to witii awe ami dcvotn-u. The mu tiny proved that they were much to be feared by the Engliah rulers as agents of the disaf fected rajahs, whose messages they carried to the Sipahis of the East India Company, causing them to revolt against their officers and ulti mately to commit the massacre which caused such great mourning in England. It is said that the emissaries of Nina Sahib, the great instigator of the Indian mutiny, were all fakirs and had agreed with the native writing inks, most of which contain it in ouan tity, to become moldy, such mold being, as in (louiiuess wen Known, a lungus vegetation. wmcn otteti apx-ar on I mm lies in pn-ceaa of lc cay. We may designate the virtues of the sul phate of iron, for disinfecting nun-oses. as fol lows: It is not a hygienic disinfectant, since it does not destroy the lower forms of life. As a remedy, tlierelore, against the spreau of epi demic diseases, which spread by the dissemina tion of the germs of auch minute organisms, it is quite useless. As a chemical disinfectant, how ever, for the suppression of offensive odnra, affecting the question of comfort rather than health, it is a most excellent agent. Wherever the ordinary system of a walled reservoir for holding excremeutal matters is in vogue, and where, as is generally the case, the res ervoir is but seldom emptied, the air in the vicinity, especially ilunng the iicriotl oi low barometer, will be chamed with nuimcut and offensive odors. These may be effectually checked by the criodical addition of the auf- pnate in solution in water. El.WTRIc I.IiiHT nm ClTirx Let Mnmles says that the municipal couucil of Exeter is the first public body in England which has officially recognized the value of the recent experiments in electric lighting. It has postponed a content plated purchase of gas works, under a hope that electricity will soon be shown to be more satisfactory as well as more economical. The three rival systems, of the Gramme machine, the Alliance machine, and the electric candle of .labloehkoff and IVnayrouxe. are ooutinuiiiir their experiments in Pans, on a large scale. HOME MADE CURTAINS. A house wife writes to tho Prairie Farmer, some notes of her home-made decorations. We take a paragraph on curtains: lively draperies can bo fashionod out of that common, est of fabrics, cheese-cloth. They should be long and full; bands of turkey-red calico stitched on the front edge and Mtom, make a pretty finish. More elaborate, curtains can he made by using Torchon or Smyrna laeo inser- ton and edge with a strip of cheese-cloth of the same width ns the insertion Mweon the two for the finish. A band of turkey-rwl. an insertion of lace, another lwnd of red and a lace edge of the same width as the insertion makes a beautiful combination. A round cor' nice with rings is the most appropriate for these curtains, but they can, of course h hung on whatevei kind one may ban Q 0IW docs not hUMfl to 1 MUBcssed of cornices of "tn .J"n,tjWn' oonoaV to he studied Mare bedstead slats.' Cut the tlaU four ehM longer than the window casings arc wide- on each end fasten a piece four inches long, that will set square baek to the wall. Put some cotton batting on the mt side, so as to make a rounded surface and cover all smoothly with cotton doth to hold it in thai. Cover this with a puff made of the cheese cloth, leaving a frill an inch or more in depth on each side. Tack a scarlet cord or band over the gathering threads ami fasten the cornice in position with long nooks that DOtne. for the purpose, Very pretty amhrcqii.us can W made of the same materials by tacking a straight breadth, (trimmed across the bottom! , huge plaits tu the cornice, ami niter it is hung, looping the center in graceful nook VIENNA BREAD, A Vienna bakery lias been one of the most prominent objects at each of the last three in. ternntional exhibitions, sml probably there are many lunisekrcpcrs w h Would be glad to know how this delicious broad is made. The baking. The loaf should be so small mat in or hi minutes will l-o auflieicnt to it through in u oven which is bent,.) t.. temperature of about BOP, or the molting point o bismuth. The rolls si Id not touch each other. The. mixing. The proportion. re:k Eight ponndt of floor, thrti quin ts of milk "d w tor in iual proportions, thrsa tlll ft Ju ounces ot pressed yeast, DM ounce of salt which should make about ;iMl rolls ..f tl,. i; nary " Kaiwr M innie! " sire. The null mA water in nul parti arc first mixed and allowed to come to the mum taptrttan of a kitchen, and a small amount of flour is then mixed in it il l s l""ll,Hin' 1,10 yeast is added and well mixed in, first crumbling it in the ham . nm t , mn la L.ft i . . ?. quarters of . hour. The rest of the llour'is then slowly mixed in with thorough kneading. MjVOOro Al.AIIAKI Kit OlIN AMKNTH. - -The an excellent cement for this puriKtse: 7ft " dram of quick-lmie, slako it will, a little water, .v .v., hh ami sue it through a very ine lawn slt,vc Mix this powder, whiles quite freshly prepared, with two tahlcspoonfula of raw white of egg; work up wry smm.tl. with a spatula and spply to the surfaces to btjotnad "Inch must si oXl t etc., until the cement has set thoroughly. OHIUI BQ IOC -There la an excellent home mad., sauce for meat that goes by this namo, , i.nuiany an inula of a sauce made of the ehSli or cayenne ih-i ir imkI. The folh.wi.. ;. . " ,.rr. Pake eighteen rinu tonatnaa u Li . ' green ,cppcrs, two toaaKuiful. of Bait, one teacup of BQitr, two and ono-half teacuw of vinegar, one teasonful cch of elovea .ml cinnamon (hop and mix, boil t0WVi SOIT Soil' A - ' , . ,,i. ii,. f,,n . 1 rri'.?M "f bolllai mtar ii..tvc ti,,.. pond! 8,hk1 . T T , "i .till IWDOUMMWIIh. Ini' mil & ai. in ul. lJ , i . 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"w trie reaaoii, and U.e men s excuse was that, though they thev i. ml i.t .,. ,. i.i.l.. I U.-J loulymn. ( ,h,. th.,luk. h the meclu.,. -- maul make it .tnke I I at one o clock. Iturnmi K.iv.ii. a inllueutial ilciuUtlou ol lu.uiher. ol I'arliment lately waihi.1 on the lllllll of the Ki clicuer , toailnicat. the claim, ol the Hootti.h JMMVltWM Society. HirKUfforJ Northooto ?""nJ or.red to it ti.ouo lor iu raid and fa th. ...... ,i, t iluruiK the 20 ,,., , ha . cuurajfementlur future auproihationj.