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Y, May 16, 1902
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COASTING TRADE.
The law of Canada with respect to
the coasting trade, is to be amended.
Hitherto any vessel of British register
could obtain a license to trade between
Canadian ports. This will no longer be
the case. In future a foreign built
British ship desiring to engage in the
strictly Canadian trade will be required
to be entered in the Department of Cus-
toms and pay a duty of 25 per cent.
This will stop a practice of which there
has been great complaint on the Atlantic
coast. Vessels are built in the United
States and taken to Newfoundland,
where the obtain a British register, and
are then at liberty to do business in
Canada. Vessel men naturally complain
of this practice, and the government, in
a belated way is doing its duty by put-
ting a stop to it.
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A SEA MONSTER.
Biggest ship in the World to be Chris-
tened This Month.
Berlin, Aug. 5.--Emperor William will
attend the launching of the North Ger-
man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II.,
at the Vulcan ship yard at Stettin, on
August 12. The daughter of Dr. H.
Wirgand, the director general of the line
will christen the ship, which will be the
largest and is designed to be the fastest
in the world. Her length is to be 707
feet, her beam 71 1/4 feet, her depth 39
feet, and her draught 29 feet. She is
to be of 39,000 horse power, 19,500 tons
displacement, and will accommodate 1,-
000 cabin passengers.
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SPANKER, JIGGER, DRIVER AND
PUSHER
A seven-masted schooner was launched the
other day in Massachusetts, the largest
sailing vessel afloat. When ships were pro-
vided with a maximum of three "sticks,"
called the fore, main and mizzen, these
termsc were familiar to all. But when
others were stepped new titles had to be
devised for them. First came the "spank-
er," next the "jigger," next the "driver,"
and the seventh mast on this latest craft
is called the "pusher." These titles smack
suggestively of some of the names bestow-
ed on golf clubs. Just what verbal coinage
will follow a further amplication of the
schooner's rigging must be left to the im-
agination. -- Washington Star.
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TELEPHONE DECISION
In Berlin a legal decision was recently
rendered which is of interest to every
business man in every country who uses
a telephone.
A merchant one day sent an order by
telephone to a business firm, and as the
order was not carried out to his satisfac-
tion he sued for damages, claiming that
the person at the other end of the tele-
phone to whom he had given his order
was responsible for the loss.
The Court, however, decided against
him, and refused to award any damages,
on the ground that, as a rule, the person
who goes first to a telephone and asks
to be put in connection with another
person must bear the consequences of
any loss which may be the result of such
a conversation.
The Court admitted that the person
to whom an order might be sent in this
way might not catch all the words, or
might fail to understand their full im-
port, but insisted that it would be con-
trary to all the principles of law to
hold him responsible on that account.
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Diphtheria.
Dr. Gauthier of St. Paul, Minn., tells in the Chicago Medi-
cal Review of his success in an epidemic of diphtheria by the
use of iodine. He has treated 200 cases with but two deaths,
while before adopting this methond he lost one third of all
his cases. The treatment is as follows: The patient is ordered
tincture iodine in ten to twelve drop doses every hour, well
diluted with water, so long as the fever lasts subsequently
reducing to ten drops every two, and finally every three
hours. Local applications are made use of at the same time.
These latter should be made by the physician at least twice
a day. For internal use the decolorized tincture is used.
Bread and starchy articles of diet are used in abundance.
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A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA. -- We have
just received a receipt for the cure of
diphtheria from a physician, who says
that, out of one thousand nine hundred
cases in which it has been used, not a
single patient has been lost. The treat-
ment consists in thoroughly swabbing
the back of the mouth and throat with a
wash made thus: Of table salt two
drachms; black pepper, golden seal,
nitrate of potash, alum, one drachm each.
Mix and pulverize, put into a teacup half
full of water, stir well and then fill up
with good vinegar. Use every half-hour,
one, two, and four hours, as recovery
progresses. The patient may swallow a
little each time. Apply one ounce each
of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil and
aqua ammonia, mixed, every hour to the
whole of the throat, and to the breast
bone every four hours, keeping flannel
on the parts. -- N. Y. Tribune.
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[sideways] The partaking of a slice of pineapple after
a meal, says the Lancet, is quite in accord-
ance with physiological imdications, since,
though it may not be generally known,
fresh pineapple juice contains a remark-
ably active digestive principle similar to
pepsin. This principle has been termed
"bromelin" and so powerful is its action
upon proteids that it will digest as much
as 1,000 times its weight within a few
hours. Pineapple, it may be added, con-
tains much indigestible matter of the
nature of woody fibre, but it is quite pos-
sible that the decidedly digestive properties
of the juice compensate for this fact.
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An easy polish for the daily rubbing of
the dining table is an emultion made from
two parts of table oil to one part of vine-
gar. This applied with a soft cloth or flan-
nel and rubbed afterward with a dry one,
will be found effisient in removing all or-
dinary stains.
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BENZOATE OF SODA FOR DIPHTHERIA. -- Prof.
Klebs, of Prague announces that the benzoate
of soda is the best antiseptic in all infectious
diseases. It acts, as the experiments of the
author show, very powerfully. It is claimed
that a daily dose of from 30 to 50 grammes to a
full-grown man will render the poison of diph-
theria inoperative. The benzoate is prepared
by dissolving crystallized benzoic acid in water,
neutralizing at a slight heat with a solution of
caustic soda, drying, and then allowing the
sollution to crystalize over sulphuric acid under
a bell glass. Large doses do not appear to be
absolutely necessary. Good results may be ob-
tained by the daily administration of about 12
grammes.
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A Cure for Sciatica.
A cure for neuralgia and sciatica--and
as I am told, an unfailing one-- is too val-
uable not to be recorded.
An English officer, who served with
distinction in the war with Napoleon,
was once laid up in a small village in
France with a severe attack of sciatica.
It so happened that at that time a tin-
man was being employed in the house
where he lodged, and that this tinman,
having been himself a soldier, took an
interest in the officer's case, and gave
him the cure which, in this instance
succeeded immediately and forever, and
which I am about to set down. It is at
any rate so simple as to be worth a trial.
Take a moderate-sized potato, rather
large than small, and boil in one quart
of water. Foment the part affected with
the water in which the potato has been
boiled as hot as it can be borne at night
before going to bed; then crush the po-
tato and put it on the affected part as a
poultice. Wear this all night and in the
morning heat the water, which should
have been preserve, over again, and
again foment the part with it as hot as
can be borne. This treatment must be
persevered with for several days. It oc-
casionally requires to be continued for
as much as two or three weeks, but in
the shorter or longer time it has never
yet failed to be successful. -- Vanity Fair.
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VICTORIA DAILY COLONIST, THURSDAY JANUARY 1 1903
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[image, subtitled] William Bouguereau in his studio.
The Art of the Age.
The Signs of the Zodiac--William Bouguereau.
The Signs of the Zodiac. The design of the front cover
of this issue is a pictorial re-
presentation of Capricorn (the
Goat), the sign of the zodiac which corre-
sponds to the month of January, and it is
our intention for the remaining eleven months
of the present year to reproduce upon the
cover of Pearson's Magazine pictures em-
blematic of the other zodiacal signs. All
will be drawn by Mr. Abbey Altson, R.B.A.,
with whose charming work in black and white
the readers of this magazine are already
familiar.
The zodiac, as is well known, is an
imaginary zone in the heavens, divided into
twelve parts, and within this zone lie the paths
of the sun, moon, and principal planets.
Until one hundred years ago the old
method of reckoning positions with the aid
of the twelve zodiacal signs was in every day
use by astronobers, and at the time when
these signs first played an important part in
astronomical observation each division coin-
cided in position with an important con-
stellation, and was named after it. The
complete list of constellations, and, therefore,
of zodiacal signs, is as follows: Capricornus,
the Goat; Aquarius, the Water Bearer;
Pisces, the Fishes; Aries, the Ram; Taurus,
the Bull; Gemini, the Twins; Cancer, the
Crab; Leo, the Lion; Virgo, the Virgin;
Libra, the Balance; Scorpio, the Scorpion;
Sagittarius, the Archer.
This conincidence in names between the
zodiacal signs and the constellation would
have been quite satisfactory if the path of the
sun relative to the stars had never varied from
year to year, but, owing to what is called, in
astronomical language, the precession of the
equinoxes, the tropical year is rather less than
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