The west shore., April 01, 1881, Page 101, Image 15

April, 1881.
THE WEST SHORE.
101
She loon had the children to bad with bat
little ceremony in the way of iuppr. At th
twilight shadow full the draw her chair to th
window, and looking out upon the coming of
the gloom and of the stars, the soliloquised aa
follows: "The spirit of Pmnii u md us to
day, shurs. II don't like Larry, and that is to.
Bad luek to the day! If 1 am to live such a
life aa Mrs. Larry, I had bettor stv at Widow
Hsrty." And she did "stay" aa Widow Marty,
for Larry never oame baok lor his antwer, ami
it wu months before the set eye upon him
agsin.-0. IK. T. C, i Rural I'rtu.
FRENCH MERCHANT 8HIPPIN0.
The new law under which Frenoh shipbuilders
and thip owner are to reoeire substantial
bounties from th State, has already had quit
a eontrary effect to what wae expected. The
Jealousy of manufacturers has betn aroused, and
reaotion bas set in which mutt be regarded as
a signal for more clamoroua demands in the
same direction. A writer in the Vanes ridi
cules th statement in the preamble to the new
act that the bounties are aooorded "in com
pensation for the charges which the Customs
tariff impose on shipbuilders," and "for th
charges imposed on the meiohant navy for fur
nishing recruits and the servioe of the military
marine." "If," says the writer, " the Customs
tariff is defective, it should be amended. Other
wise, now that bounties have been granted to
shipbuilders, th earn favor mutt be aooorded
to ootton spinners, forgemasters, and everybody
else." Moreover, it is pointed out by the writer
that, if, after all the efforts made to improve
th position of the French oommeroial marine,
they should result in failure, ship owners might
console themselvee by the thought that the evil.
Great Britain alone exoepted, is universal, and
that bounties will nowhere bring about the
slightest remedy. The article ooooludes:
"Italy, whioh formerly built ships represent
ing an annual tonnage of 100,000, did not per
haps, add 20,000 tons to her home-built chip
ping a year ago. The United States, whioh at
one time oaried by sea 00 per otnt. of their own
merchandise, war only represented last year
by IS per oent A fatal revolution has occurred.
Steam has swept away tails, and iron and ateel
have taken the olaos of wood. And with what
result t That vessels an now mostly built where
iron, steel, machinery and ooal are obtainable
at the lowest rates, or, in other words, at
Glasgow on the Clyde, Newcastle on th Tyns,
and Sunderland on th Wear. The shipbuild
ing yards of London and Liverpool have them
selvee bad to giv way." The Frenoh will
sooner or later regret that common-asuss views
snob as these should have had no effect it alter
ing the miaohievoua decision arrived at by the
French Legislator, which, however, fortu
nately, is not irrevocable. ro a.
Railroad Bpildino in tiii United State.
With on single exoention, there wet more
mile of railroad boilt last year than beretofor
in th history of th Union. Fifty yean ago
(18.101 then were but 23 miles of railroad in the
l'ni'e-1 State. Ten yean later (1840) the lines
Led extended to 2.818 mile. At th end of th
next decade (1830) there were 9,021 miles) and,
aooording to the re ports tor 18i0, the railroads
of the oountry bad reached 30,6.13 miles. And
within the next 10 years, which embraoee the
period of the eivil war, the mileage was nearly
doubled. Erath aiutteriogs ol lb war had
died away th recuperative power, enterprise
and genius of th American people were re
tailed as never before, in eetsblisbiog and ex
tending th line of travel and oommcroo, so
that in 1H7I, th mileage of new road oompleUd
amounted to th toormoui amount of 7.070
mile. Daring Uet yew 6, 200 mile of traek
were laid down,
This, are 121 mine listed at th New York
Board. Th February sale were 3,742,000
shares, including 3,340,000 (bare of Colorado
fllatfiti
HOT AND COLD BATHS.
Th London Lanctt in a recent number points
out the difference between the effnota of hot and
oold bath. Th erTeate of the cold heh, it mye,
being mainly du to impressions mails upon the
cutaneous nerves, the modifications of the oold
bath largely depend on their power of inoress
ing its stimulating action. The odder the wa
ter the mora violent th Impression. The fre
quent ohsngs of water, such as is found in the
aoa or in ruuning streams, lnorease the stimu
lating elTrot, Uraat toroe of impsct, aa when
water falls from a bight or oomes forcibly
throuh a hose upon the body th division of
th stream, as is seen in shower baths and
needle baths, and the addition of acids or salt
to the water, all sot, it would mm nil by increas
ing th stimulating power whioh th water
exert upon th outaneoua nerves.
Warm baths produoa an effeot upon th skin
directly contrary to that brought atnut by oold
water. The cutaneous vessels dilate immedi
ately under the influence of the heat and al
though this dilation is followed by a oonlrao
tion of the vessels, this nontrsotion i seldom
excessive, and th ultimate result of a wsrm
bsth is to inareas the cutaneous circulation.
The pulse and respiration are both quickened, as
in the oold bath. The warm bath moreatee the
temperature of the body, and by lessening the
neoeesity for th internal production of best,
decreases the osll made upon oertain vital pro
cesses, and snables life to be sustained with a
lea expenditure of force. While a oold bath
causes a oertain stiffness of ths muscle, if con
tinued for too long a time, a warm bath relieves
stiffness and fatigue. The ultimate result of
hot and oold baths, if their temperature be
moderate, are about the same, the difference
being to use th words ol Brsun, that "oold re.
freshes by stimulsting th funotions, heat by
physically facilitating themi and in this lies the
important prsotioal differeno between the oold
water and th hot water systems."
Sunday Dinnm. Sunday, by a large major
ity of mankind, is made a day of feasting, aud
th Sunday dinner ia th principal una of th
whole week. It there is any scrimping it is
done through the week and the strength of the
purs and efforts of the housewife are both con
centrated and brought to a focus upon a Sunday
dinner. Sunday ia said to be a day of rest
but, vry little rest doe the stomach Hud when
it h loaded with an aunrted cargo of highly
seasoned viands, which give it a lob of over
work. And this is more onerous and provoking,
as Its owner lounge around and take little or
no exerou. whioh leaves th other orgsns with
out employment, and th poor stomach haa to
work on all alone, although It often sxeroises it
constitutional right of grumbling at iU owner's
indisoration and glnttooy, which hath suoh ex
tent that by the close ol the dsy he leels muoh
like a stuffed anaoonda, II ths quantity of food
we eat is to b regulated by the exercise of the
body, then th Sunday meal should be the light
est of the week, a usually but littles physical
sxercis is taken on that day, whereas the con
trary is the fact and th appetite ia nursed and
whetted throughout th week that it may make
an onelaught on the fat of th land on Sunday,
whioh is a manifest impropriety and a gross vio
lation ol th laws of health.
HTDunriinaiA Vises. That oheoar poison
which prod noes hydrophobia has been know to
lie latent in the human system for years before
developing it fetal results. M. Pasteur asserts
that the supposition is well supported thst th
virus doe develop in certain cgana, and not,
aa ia other eases, in th blood) and that when,
after a period variable aooording to elreom
stanosa, th organised poison passe Into the
blood sever symptom onme on rapidly, and
th victim soon die. Aa etplsastioa sub
stantially th sent as this had long been ad
vanosd a a mere theory, but Bow M. I'astsur
sdvaaos it a aa ascertained physiological
fact,
INDUSTRIAL BECRETS.
A century ago, what a man dUoovsrad In th
art h oonoealed. Workmen wera put upon an
oaut never to reveal the process used by their '
employer. Door wera kepi dosed, artisans
going out wera searched, visitor wera rigorously
excluded from admission, and fala operations
blindsd th workmen themselves. Th my,
teries of vry craft war hedged in by thick
set feuoes of empirical pretentions and judicial
affirmation. The royal manufactories of pores
lain, for example, wera carried on in Europe
with a spirit of Joalou xolotivenees, His
Majesty of Saxony was eeiwoially olicumspect.
Nut oontent with the oath of secrecy imposed
upon his workpeople, h would not abate hi
kingly sutpioion in favor ot a brother monarch.
Neither king or king's delegate might enter th
taliooed walla ol Meissen. What ia rronvMsiy
called the Dresden poroslain that exquisite
lottery of whioh th world hs never teen it
Ilk was produoed for 200 years by a process
so secret that neither th bribery ot iirtnoes nor
th garrulity of th operative revealed it,
Oilier discoveries have been lees successfully
guarded, fortunately for the world. Th man
ufacture of tinware in England originated in a
stolen secret, Few reader nesd be iuformed
that tinware i simply thin iron plated with tin
by being dipped into th molten metal, la
theory, it Is an easy matter to eleaa th surfso
of iron, dip it into a bath ot boiling tin, remov
it enveloped with a silvsry mstal to a plao ol
cooling, In practice, however, th process i
or at th most dillloult la th art. It was
discovered in Holland, and guarded Irons pub
licity with th utmost vlgllsno tut mora than
hall a century. F.ngland tried in vain to dls
oovsr th secret, nntil Jaine Sherman, a Corn
iah miner, Insinuated himself msster ol the as
oral, and brought it home. Th secret ol man.
ufacturing east steel was also suaiinuy on.
tamed, and is bow within th reach ol all art!
tan. Chloral nm Tootiucii and Faciacm.
Dr. Sporsr In a St, Teterslmrg medical Journal,
after referring to the great benefit h had de
rived (mm chloral, whether administered inter
nally or aa an embrocation diasolvsd In almond
oil, for the rellel ol rheumalie and other pain,
etatee that in toothache and Its accompanying
facial pain a most effective remedy I found ia
dissolving from a torupls to hall a drachm Is
two drachms of glvoorino, and applying a plug
of wadding soaked in this to th eartou tooth.
As, however, this cause in om consider
able irritation of the mucoua membrane ol th
mouth, he baa during the last four year always
appiied the chloral ia subatano. From a ball
to at most on graia ol th granule ol chloral
an wrapped In a litll wool to keep them to
gether, sod placed ia th cavity ol th tooth.
Whs th chloral bas dissolved the accumulated
saliva is to be spit out. II th tooth ia ia th
sppsr jsw th ohlural should be kept oa by th
linger until dissolved. Th most violent tooth
ache ia ia a lew minute relieved. II sites
some eases ia which most distressing and long
abiding toothache, accompanied by sersn pros
opalgia, was thus promptly on red.
Till Sirsb or Color. At a recent meeting
ot th F reach Association for th Advancwnsnt
of Soisnos, M. Carpeatier, of Nancy, read a
paper, la which h propounded the somewhat
novel theory that the sens ot light and that of
colon an Independent Hino whit light I
th turn total of th various colors, it baa beea
commonly thought that the asnsaltoa of whit
light was simply th sum total of th sensation
ot it constituent colors. On th (roe ad that
th sensitiveness of the eye fiir whit light may be
Increased aa, for Instance, by th pvcvtou tb
eeao of all light without th coitivenea
for color being Increased, he args that thrrs it
a color tea ss distinct frees that ol light a to
tb eease ol loach (roe the sense at heat,