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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1880)
February, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. 53 BEE STINOS. Nearly twenty years ago I lived in western Ohio. Our family consisted of my wife and myself, a little girl about threo years old, and a little boy, a babe. One day my wife started on a visit on horseback, intending to return in me evening, i nolped her on the horso, and went probably about thirty rods distanco with Im 1L J 1.1. - t uoi ion 111 11 me ience lor ner to pass through. During the time we left the children in the houso, thinking they would not bo likely to receive harm till I came back; but, to my great surprise, on returning to the house I found that the little nirl had made her iviv to tho bee-hives, and, I suppose, had thrust out one or ner arms into a hive, as it stood up some distanco from the ground, and in this way had stirred up the bees. When 1 took her into the house she was suffering extremely from the great number of stings which she had received. I took hor upon my kneo, and counted the number of stingers as I pulled them out from her faoe, arms and neck 1 found 88 and after wards discovered that there were as many more in her hair. Of course this looked to me like a vory serious injury enough to causo hor death, if I could not adopt some mode of treat ment that would be very effective. 1 hail not been in the habit of using medicine in my fam ily in a long time, but depended entirely upon water. After pulling out the stingers, I stripped the child, tilled a tub half full of water, right cold from the well, and placed her in it for about a minute; then took her out and wrapcd her in a sheet, and put her in the cradlo. I re peated this process, bathing her a!out throe times, ton minutes apart, and had tho satisfac tion of sooing it alleviate her sullering. After I had bathed her threo timos and wrapped her up warmly in the sheot, slio dropped to sloep and did not wake up for about '.'0 minutes. Then the fever and pain woko her up, ami I bathed her again. After two more baths she slept soundly, and on waking seemed to be nearly rocovcred. By tho timo hor mother came home that evening, she was able to be around, with scarcoly any marks of the stings upon her person. I do not believe that any other than water treatment would have brought about such a good result in so short a time. -Ex. Benefits of Exf.wisf.. In addition to the physical benefits derived from athletic oxercise, it has a moral value; it affords a diversion and a vent to thoso animal energies which otherwise are sure to explode in debauch and all kinds of vicious exoesses. The sympathetic thrill by which the mind accompanies a daring gymnastic feat, and tho enthusiasm of athletic contests form tho most salutary and, perhaps, the only normal gratification of that love of excitement which is either the legitimate manifestation of s healthy instinct, or else a wholly irromediablu disease of our nature. The soul needs emotion aa the body needs exercise -a fact we do not, as a people, realize. In times of scarcity the paupers of China and Siam silenco the clamors of their hungry children by dosing them with opium; and for analogous reasons millions of our fellow citi.ens seek relief in alcohol. Bkn.oate of Soda foii DnHUU -Prof. Klebs, of Prague, announces that the lainzoatc of soda is the lieat antiseptic in all infectious diseases. It acts, as the experiments of the author show, very powerfully. It is claimed that a daily doso of from JO to M grammes to a full-grown man will render the poison of diph theria inoperative The lienr-oate i prepared by dissolving crystallised benzoic acid in water, neutralizing at a slight heat with a solution M caustic soda, drying, and then allowing the solution to orystallize over sulphuric acid under a bell glaea. Large doaes do not appear to I absolutely necessary. iood result may lie ob tained by the daily administration of about I'.' grammes. HOME-MADE ORNAMENTS. "Bessie Victor" writes, for an exchange, an interesting articlo regarding home-made orna ments. " ltnstio adornments," she says, "if thrown together indiscriminately, without re gard to order or taste, will not only spoil the ett'oot intended, but tho article will be worthless Those materials which differ in color should never bo used on tho same piece of work. Com beans, and other light-colored materials, if used on frames for bead-work, should lie stained some dark oolor and varnished. Tho nicest way I ever saw them used, however, is to string them ami form into baskets ; ami they call lie formed into such a charming variety of shapes that their diversity is almost endless. I hey are lieautilul used as fringes for baskets, oilriier-shelves and what-nots; and if painted dark brown and var nished rmmblsj closely very handsome carvings. "Oak bark is very pretty for rustic frames in fact, any rough bark looks nicely mado into frames. 'I hey need not be stained, aa their natural color is the best, and a coal of varnish gives a beautiful finish. The corners can lie ornamented by groups of acorn cups. To hang a rustic frame, string acorns on a stout linen thread, making tassels of allspico, trimmed with a gilt-papor baud. A strip of gilt inside the Iran) I is an improvement. If your picture is dark use a light frame ; if light, a dark Irume. " While visiting a friend last week I saw a work-basket, the edge uf which was beautified by a crocheted border in shell pattern. This was first starched very stillly, tacked in place, pulled out smoothly and left to dry ; afterward stained and varnished. Tho elliiot was besuti ful. This stylo of ornamentation might be duplicated ill frames for photos, borders for shelves, brackets, boxes, etc. CHIPS. Til F.HK are no swoets in family jars. "Man," says Victor Hugo, "was the conun drum of the eighteenth century; woman is the conundrum of the nineteenth century." An American editor adds: "Wo can't guess her, but will never give her up no, never I" "Win, Dick," said a lady teacher the other day, "you are getting to lie an awfully good boy lately; ever so much Imttor than you were last vear. How is it?" "Oh! pshaw! Miss Hetty," said the youngster, "I don't have so much turn- mick-ache now. Ar a municipal election--first voter: "I've just been anil pluuiied for Carter." Second voter: "l'lumpeil lor t arter : N ny, 1 don t believe you know him. " Kirst voter: "No; that's why I vote for him. He may lie an hon est man. I kimw the others. "Now, Johnny, you've had a merry Christ mas, and you must bo good till next Christmas to pay (or it." "Oh yes, of course, lie good. I don't b'licve you can hire mo to lie good for a year for a tin horsu and story bonk just like what Kill Jones was going to trade me for throe marbles. Not much. ' Imf.iikkiinu Disi ovr.itv. Considerable, ... citemcnt is said to have been eoused in Lyons hy a discovery which purports to give to Max ail the ipialities and appearance of silk. It has long Iwiiii known that silk is soluble, not only in powerful acids, but also in soda and I blonde of ziuu, and it is said that these qualities are marie use of in the new process. A company is being formed with a capital of li,(H),lHKI for the manufacture of the new tr-xtilc. Kn man on (Ii.am. Etching on sjsjsj is per formed by laying on the glaas a ground uf lives wax, and drawing the design thereon with the ueedlr, aa in etching upon copper. Sulphuric acid is then poured on, and lluor spar sprinkled U All. p M Own hours it la t.. L i ii nil on IV. JIM- i '- wm - - f ami the work cleaned with oil of turpentine. A PAll.Y action of tho bowels, says llnICi Journal of Health, is oasoutial to good health under all circumstances; the want of it ongeiul. era the most painful and fatal diseases. Nature prompts this action with great regularity, moat generally after breakfast Hurry or excitomont will .liai.,.1 (I,,! nroio.dini. sl.il tin. result i nature is balllcd. Her regular routine is inter fered with, and harm is done. This is a thing which most iorsous do not hesitate to postpone, and in the case of riding to town, a delay of one or two hours is involved. This never can occur with impunity, in any single instance, to any person living. This vory littlo thing postpon ing nature's daily bowel autions failing to have them w ith regularity is the cause of all cases of piles and anal fistulas, to say nothing of van oils other forms of disease: fever, dyspepsia, headache, and the whole family of nourolgiM. A man bad better lose a dinner, hotter sacrifice the earnings of a day, than repress the call of nature; for it will inuvitably lead to ennsti. tion, the attendant and aggravatnr of almost every disease. To arrange this thing safely, breakfast should be had at such an esrly time aa will allow of a full half hour's leisure between the close of the meal mid the time of leaving for the cars. Wn.vi Smokimi DOW run BOTIi A certain doctor, struck with the large number of buys iiinlcr lA years of age he observed smoking, was led to impure into the edict the habit ItUUPM the general health. He tnnk for his purposn M aged from 11 to 15, and carefully examined them, In '.'7 he discovered injurious traces of the habit. In there were variuus disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the heart, and a more or less taste for strong drink. In I'J there were frequent bleedings of the nose, 10 had disturbed sleep, and I'.' had alight ulceration of the mucous membrane of the mouth, which disappeared on ceasing the use of tobacco for Mm days. The doctor treated tin in all for weakness, but with little effect until the smoking was discontinued, when health and strength were soon restored. Now, this is no "old wife's tain," as these facts are given under the authority of the llrilith Mldkal Mnnthll, BrUM 1 1 ka m no. The idea of heating build, ings over a large area by steam from soma cen tral nour c.i seems to Ini gaining favur, There Is prubsbly more in it than the public in general are aw are of. Tim experiment of steam healing has Ihioii tried in Detroit, ami pronounced a success, since winch time several cities have granted privileges for the improvement, among them I' iniiati. A select ciiinmittnn of the llusrd if Aldermen of that city, epKiiutcd to investi gate tho subject, i oiicludml Ho n wink by agree, in.' unanimously to rcxirt the bill authorising the laying of pipes under the streets, which Ho. Hoard of DoQDOUIMB have already passed. Thn Committee made inquiries about the working of the system in Detroit, and all the information they received was favorable to it. Turns ccu.au km Otmmm, Piofidi yourself with a thermometer, a glaaa tumbler filled with water; and a piece of ice; limn mill bow low your thermometer, when placed in tlm tumbler, ha to sink bofuro any muisture bruins to show itself on the initio. I. of the vessel of cold water. The lnwrr the temperature to which mo inoriiinmnter has to sink lieforo moist ure is precipitated, the less them is of it in tho moisture of the cellar. A vi. ini urn is to be erected in . ouiinnmiira tion of linn. Stark's victory over the llritish at II. Hiiiiigton, Vt, Tiu total coinage of the lulled Status Mints during January was '!,.v;t,,.'si. Tn U.i.ilili'nul.1, L ...... Hoa lionhcur by the King uf Itelgiuui.