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H U RTFUL OCCUPATIONS.
Employments Which Injure the Eyes,
Lungs or other Organs.
There are many occupations in which the
eyes have to suffer, as very small objects
must be critimlly scrutinized, frequently by
artificial light. . The objects, in order to be
distinctly seen, must be brought quite near
the eye; this necessitates great straining of
the eye. The eyeball being compressed some—
what by the muscles, causes congestion,
which is increased by artificial light in which
there is excessive heat. Rays of yellow color
are very trying to the eyes. ,
Engravers, lapidaries, ' watchmakers and
sewing girls are subject to affections of the
eyes, due to the above mentioned causes
They lead a sedentary life, sitting at work in
a constrainel attitude, with the body bent
forward and shoulders rounded, so that the
thoracic movements are interfered with.
This produces consumption, the cases of this
disease among engravers and seamstresses
being very numerous. Engravers are also
subject to spasms in their fingers, with dis-
ease of the skin on the hands and forearms.
“ratchmakers who do the repairing have
the nail on the right thumb thickened and
scaly from their manner of opening watches.
The nails on the thumb and index finger of
the left hand show at the point where they
approach each other “in order to hold deli-
cate pieces” a born appearance, and alinOst
complete destruction is produced by the con—
stant rubbing of the file. Seamstresscs are
sometimes poisoned by the stuffs they work
upon. Many instances have occurred of ar-
3 senical poisoning in those who sewed grew;
‘ goods, which is colored with arseniczil units.
A physician of Boston found 8.21 grams of
it in one square foot of goods. An izching,
eczematous eruption has been produced by
tissues colored 'with bright aniline dyes.
Silk thread is also soaked in the acetate of
lead to increase its weight, and persons who
pass it through the mouth in threading
needles, then bite it off with the teeth, have
suffered with lead poisoning.
The influence of sewing machines on the
health of women has of 1en been discussed by
eminent men, with conflicting arguments and
evidence. The most elaborate investigation
is by Duchesne. I‘Ic found that women suf—
fered from muscular pains and great fatigue
of the lower limbs, with dyspepsia and other
evils; while other writers agree that mod-
. crate work on the sewing machine is rather
3 cules, and cannot know disease.
They undergo very universally at.
: for invalids as wellus persons in health. :
beneficial for health than otherwise, and that
only where women work from eight to ten
hours at the treadle evil results are apparent.
It seems clear, therefore, that the chief source
of their troubles is fatigue, which, with their
habits of life, food, associations, ete., fully
account for the symptoms. As the health of
women is vastly more important to the na-
tional vigor than that of men, special care
should ever be taken to guard it. W'liile
there are many workrooms where the ma-
chines are run by steam or water power,
there are many where the machines are run
by the muscles of women.
Persons performing delicate operations
with their fingers, requiring long practice to
learn and frequently repeated, sometimes
suffer from what is called “writers’ cramp,”
because it was first noticed in penmen. It
occurs in all classes of writers, pianists, vio-
linists, telegraph operators and others.
Musicians who play on wind instruments
contract emphysenia on account of the strain
I brought to bear on the lungs by thoracic
muscles, while the expulsion of air is hin-
dered. Those who use their voices a great
deal and are obliged to speak in loud tones
for a long time, often in an impure atmos-
phere, suffer greatly from the constant strain
of the vocal organs. Such is the case among
actors, teachers, singers and speakers. The
most common disease among them is pharyn—
gitis, known to all as “clergyman’s sore
throat.” This is due largely to improper
breathing and want of knowledge in giving
forth the voice. Such persons cannot know
too much about that beautiful organ, the
voice, and should study with those who make
it a great consideration. This is the best way
of warding off disease of the throat and loss
of voice.
People run away with the idea that gym-
nasts, athletes, wrestlers, are perfect Her-
’Tis a. mis—
take.
times severe tests of muscular exertion, and
as a result of these efforts, combined with
their irregular manner of living, are usually
short lived men, dying of phthisis and heart
disease.
Railroad employes are exposed to acci-
dents, . as well as various disorders of the
nervous and circulatory systems, produced
by the constant jarring to which they are
subjected. In the case of engineers and fire-
men, by the sudden changes of weather, ac-
cording to Duchesne, their hccffih for the
first few years improves and some gain flesh,
but, to use his expression, they are, as a. rule,
tired out at ten' years’ service, sufferers at the
end of fifteen, and after twenty years rarely
are able to continue in the service. Many lose
their eyesight, their hearing becomes dull,
and pains in the lower limbs render walking
or standing upright tiresome and difficult.
He attributes these symptoms to an affection
of the spinal cord, produced by long stand-
ing and constant vibration of the locomo-
tives—Boston Globe.
A Simple Scientific Trick.
In a large factory one of the workmen
carelessly alloYVed his hammer to slip from
his hand. It fieW half way across the room
and struck a follow workman in his left eye.
The man averred that his eye was blinded by
the blow, although a careful examination
failed to reveal an injury, there being not a
scratch visible. He brought suit in the
courts for compensation for the loss of half
of his eyesight and refused all offers of com-
promise. The day of the trial arrived, and
in open court an eminent oculist retained by
the defense examined the alleged injured
member and gave as his opinion that it was
as good as the right eye, and proved it.
Knowing that the colors green and red
combined make black, he prepared a black
card, on which a few words were written
with green ink. Then the plaintiff was or-
dered to put on a. pair of spectacles with two
different glasses, the one for the right eye be—
ing red and the one for the left eye consisting
of ordinary glass. Then the card was handed
him and he was ordered to read the writing
on it. This he did without hesitation, and
the cheat was at once exposed. The sound
right eye, fitted with the red glass, was un—
able to distinguish the green writing on the
black surface of the card, while the left eye,
which he pretended was sightless, was the
one with which the reading had to be done.
-—Colorist.
Coin Statistics.
The weight and bulk of the gold and silver
coin now held by the United States treasury
forms the subject of. inquiry by a correspond-
ent of a. mathematical turn of mind, and he
finds that the weight of the gold is 601 tons
of 2,000 pounds and the silver 8.000 tons.
Packing it along the highway as cordwood is
packed, the gold would make a. barricade 4
féet high, 4 feet thick for a distance of 335
feet, and the silver, if similarly packed, would
extend 4,248 feet, or five-sixths of a mile. If
packed injcarts, a ton to each cart, the proces-
sion would be nearly 33 miles long, of which
distance the gold bearing carts would cover
2% miles and the silver a. fraction over 30%
miles. -—New York Telegram.
SHOT AT A PHANTOM SHIP.
A TALE OF THE SEA THAT READS
LIKE THE REGULATION YARN.
It Brings to Light the Record of a Lost
Vessel—The Specter Ship Had Silver
Sails, Silken Ropes and Shrouds of Gold.
Sunk by the Swivel Gun.
The members of the Ananias club were
plying their fans vigorously, and in language
quite emphatic were finding fault with the
weather. Sergeant Al Taife passed his hand
wearily acrosshis brow and remarked: “This,
my lads, is the anniversary of an event so
deeply burned in my memory that it can
neverbe effaced.”
“A story! Let’s have it!” shouted the
club.
“All right, my hearties,” continued the
sergeant, indicating that a tale of the sea was
in his mind, “I will tell it to you, and as I
have done a thousand times, you will wonder
what it means. '
THE SPECTER SHIP SIGHTED.
“Forty-two years ago I was in command
of the brig Three Jacks, as stanch a craft as
ever plowed the raging main. We had a
crew of forty men, all experienced sailors
who had spent the greater part of their lives
on the deep. The Three Jacks was engaged
in the Boston and Liverpool trade, and a
voyage in those days sometimes occupied an
entire month. Pirates were not unknown
then on the high seas, and for protection we
carried three six pound howitzers and a
swivel gun, the latter being mounted on the
fo’castle. On the lst of June we sailed from
Boston with a load of merchandise for J ohn—
ny Bull‘s market, and for the first time in
,my life I felt as if I ought not to attempt to
make the trip. You know, my lads, I am not
chicken hearted or given to love poetry. but
when I saw the steeples sink away and the
hills grow smaller and smaller, until they
became mere specks, and I realized that l
was leaving the grandest country that ever
lay out of doors, I did feel a little blue, and
something awful hard to swallow came up
in my throat. But after a week had gone
by the squeamishness left me and I felt all
right. . .
“One night just forty years ago I was lyingr
in a hammock swung on the deck. Two bell:
had just struck and the watch had been
changed. I was smoking my pipe and gazing
up at the stars, wondering if dear ones I had
left on the far off shores of America were
looking at the same stars and thinking of me
The wind was just strong enough to fill the
sails, and it sung low and sweet through the
cordage as the ship rose and fell on the waves
“sounded like a mother rocking the cradle
and singing to her babe.
“The lookout sang out:
‘Sail he 1’
‘ ‘Where away 72’ I asked.
‘East of nor’east by east.’
‘East of nor’east by east?’
‘Aye, aye, sir!’
‘Can you speak her?’
‘No, sir.’
“To meet a ship in mid-ocean is nothing un—
common, and I lay down again to draw pic-
tures on the moon. But 1 had not been long
engaged in the pleasant occupation when
again the lookout shouted:
“ ‘Sail hol sail ho!’
“ ‘W’here away?’
-“ ‘Hard on the larboard quarter, sir, and
bearing down on us.’
“In an instant I sprang from my couch, and
with a single bound was in the main shrouds,
trumpet in hand. Sure enough, on the port
quarter was a full rigged ship, and a beauti-
ful sight she was, my lads. Her sails were of
silver and her rigging was silken ropes of
many hues and colors. The shrouds were
strings of gold interwoven and her decks in—
laid with diamonds.
“Her figurehead—a golden statue of Me]-
,pomene—With ruby eyes radiated in the
moonlight, and on her how I could read the
name, ‘Big Casino, of Baltimore.’ Standing
on the fo’castlo was a White robed figure. In
the maintop, foretop and mizzentop were
clustered a lot of people, all clad in white,
and one, whom I took to be the captain, sat
astride the bowsprit. So close to us was she
that I could hear the swish of the waves as
they fell away from her bows.
THEIR NAMES WERE nor “DENNIS.”
“ ‘Ship, ahoy-l’ I shouted through my trum—
ct. '
p “ ‘Ahoyl ahoyl’ was the response carried
back on the wind.
5‘ ‘What ship is that and Where are you
bormd?’
“ ‘Big Casino, of Baltimore, bound for Bal-
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timore with artificial oysters. , What ship is
that?’
“ ‘Three Jacks, of Boston, for Liverpool,
with liver and tripe.’
“-‘Hard aport there with your helm or you
will run into us,’ I shouted, for the strange
vessel was coming right at us, bows on, and
was but a few hundred feet away. A col-
lision seemed certain, and she was so much
larger than the Three Jacks that I knew we
would get the worst of the smash.
“ ‘Ahoy there! ahoyl ahoy I’ I shouted.
“ ‘Your names are Dennis.’
' “ ‘Avast there, you lubbers,’ I shrieked.
‘Bear away, or shiver my towlights if I don’t
send you all to Davy Jones’ locker.’
“A, low, mocking laugh was the only re
sponse I received, and I waited no longer, for
what I must do must be done quickly. I
dropped from the shrouds, ran for’ard like
lightning, unlashed the swivel gun on the
fo’castle, turned her upon the strange ship—
boom! bang! The night air was thick with
smoke; there were screams of agony and
cries of pain. When the smoke lifted that
strange ship was gone. Not a sign of her
was, left save the spanker boom, which slow—
ly descended as if from the sky. Astride the
boom was one of the white robed figures.
I shall never forget its look of agony.
“It was a year after that I .was at Balti-
more and told the story of the phantom ship
to a friend. We looked up the records and
found that the Big Casino sailed from Balti—
more about 100 years ago and never was
heard of after she sailed. The ship we met
in mid-ocean was her ghost that had been
tramping over the Atlantic for so many
years. ”—~Indianapolis News.
Early Building Associations.
From data that seem reliable we learn that
the first building association in this country
was organized in a'suburb of the city of Phil-
adelphia, called Frankford, Jan. 3, 1831, and
named the “Oxford Provident Building as-
sociation.” The scheme was simple. There
was a single series of stock, entrance fee of
$5, monthly dues on each share of stock 33,
and matured value of shares $500. The shares
reached their maturity in ten years and six
months, and the association was dissolved.
A new association of the same name was
formed at once.
Another similar association was formed in
the same place in 1845, called the “Franklin
Building association,” in which the matured
value of. the shares was placed at $200 and
monthly dues at $1. In 1847 an association
similar to the Franklin was organized in the
Kensington district of Philadelphia. The
number of shares was limited to five hundred;
the matured value of shares $200, and
monthly dues of $1.--Once a Week.
ARCADIA.
There is a land that stretches far away
Through candors of unviolated dreams,
A land that to the vagrant fancy seems
A paradise of sempiternal May.
And it is called Arcadia, they say.
Within its flower fields are quiet streams,
And green and cool retreats, and beauty beams
On every side, while pleasure lords the day.
0, lovely land: thou Iiest-far away,
Too fur. indeed, for laggard steps like mine;
Yet I have heard returning travelers say
That on thy frontiers they had marked a sign,
Telling to each that happiness was his,
Where pain is not, and not where pleasure is.
~Edgar Saltus in Pittsburg Bulletin
“Fishin’ Jimmy.”
A short, simple story, pathetically told, is
Annie Slosson Trumbull’s “Fishin’ Jinnny.”
“Fishin’ Jimmy” was a quaint, 01d White
Mountain character, passionately fond of
fishing. keenly Sensitive to the beauties of na-
ture and thoroughly “good hearted,” which
is another term for lovable. “To his simple
intellect the fisherman’s art was a whole sys-
tem of morality, a guide for everyday life, an '
education and a gospel. It was all any poor
mortal man, woman or child needed in this
world to make him or her happy, useful and
good." The old man is “converted” by a
“fishing: pi'ez'ichcr,” and finds great comfort
intho fact that the disciples were selected
from (llll'illg fishermen.
“When '0 was achoosin’ the men to go
about “'llll him an’ help him an’ larn his
ways so‘s to come a’ter him, he first 0’ all
picked out the men he’d seen every day fishin’,
and mold .3 fished with liisself; for he knowed
’em, and knowcd he could trust ’em.”
T he pr n- old man meets with a tragic end-
ing to his simple, picturesque life, but his
faith and his ruling passion stand out clear
until he is half across the dark stream be-
tween this life and the next—New York
Star. '
.3. Drowned ”Alan’s Shirt.
August Melching was drowned in the Co-
dorus creek while swimming. His body could
not be found for some time, when one of the
searchers suggested that his shirt be thrown
into the water, claiming that it would float
to where the body was. The suggestion was
acted on and the garment thrown into the
water where it was thought that he had dis—
appeared. It instantly shot out, then stopped,
circled about a short time and in another
moment disappeared under the water.
A young man present on tho creek’s bank
then dived to where the shirt was seen to sink
and found the body of the young man where
the shirt had disappeared. The singularity
of the incident consists in the fact that the
shirt \- .is found clinging to the dead man’s
body. Two gentlemen who were on opposite
sides of the creek at the time this occurred
corroborate the truthfulness of the incident.
This gives credence to the ancient idea that
the clothing of a drowned man when thrown
into the water will float to' the body—York
(Pa) Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bashiul Originality.
An unpremeditatcd and bashful compli-
ment is often the most flattering. A young
lady, who had gone to spend a summer with
some country relatives, found it difficult to
get on with one cousin, a boy of 10, who was
so shy that any chance remark directed to
him served to plunge him into dire embarrass-
ment.
One morning she proposed driving to town
with him, and on the way the conversation
waxed quite flourishing—at least, on one side.
Presently a pause ensued, and the young
lady became aware that her companion had
turned and was regarding her hair, which
was of the closely curling variety, lying in
small, deep waves.
“I like your hairl”'he announced, sudden—
ly. as if determined to speak his mind, let
what would come of it.
“thy?” she asked.
“Because it’s so full of them little jei‘ksl”—-
Youth ’s Companion.
The English Sparrow.
For some reason the English sparrow was
not asplentiful last year as it had been, and
his ravages were not as notable. It was
thought that the millions that perished in the
blizzard of the early part of the year ac-
counted for the check. But 1889 brings the
rascal to the front everywhere. The United
States commissioner of agriculture recom-
mends Ii method of poisoning them with
wheat soaked in an arsenical mixture. In
England this means is generally resorted to.
The poison is distributed along highways
where sparrows resort and where other birds
are not liable to pick up the poisoned ma-
terial. No greater pest to agriculture exists
in the world than this pugnacious bird; all
the worse, asbirds in general are our best
friends—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An Object Lesson.
“Don’t write there,” said one to a lad who
was scratching with a diamond pin on a pane
of glass in the window of a hotel.
“Why not?”
“Because you can’t rub it out.”
There are other things we should not do
for the same reason—because we cannot rub
them out. This person is lonely, depressed,
in sorrow, and needs sympathy. Instead. a
cold word, a heartless word is spoken. An
impression is made which is more durable
than that of a diamond on glass. Break the
glass and that disappears. But this may last
forever. Be careful what you write on the
mind and heart of those you meet—Clergy-
man in St. Louis Republic.
To Be Seen, Not Imitated.
Much as we all admire the play of “Iflttle
Lord Fauntleroy,” is there not a wondrous
dearth of small boys who would like to be like
Little Lord Fauntleroy? We have talked
with a number of little fellows about it, and
all have agreed that they couldn’t be induced
to wear their hair long, to wear a girl’s hat
with a plume in it, and to wear an enormous
silk sash. The play interests all the boys, but
when it comes to introducing the salient fea-
tures of Little Lord Fauntleroy’s career into
their own lives—that is quite another thing,
and the boys will have none of it. And we
do not blame them.—Chicago News.
Followed to the Letter.
Editor (fiercely) to office boy—See here,
boy! If you let another poet in here this
week I’ll break every bone in your body, and
hang you up for a. towel. Mind you, now.
No long haired person comes into this office
hereafter.
Office Boy (meekly)-——Yes, sir.
Editor (three hours later)—Who was that
beautiful young lady who turned in from
the street and then went away again?
Office Boy—That was the new banker’s
daughter, Miss Lovelydot, and she wanted
to subscribe. But I had to 1701le your or-
ders, sir. —Burlington Free Press.
Made Himself Right.
The editor of a. western weekly wrote up
an account of the death of a good and promi-
nent citizen, putting over it the time honored
heading: “A GoodMan Gone. ” After the issue
was printed, but before it was distributed, it
was learned that the dead man was an em-
bezzler. So the editor sat down and wrote
the word “Wrong” after the word “gone” in
the headline in every paper, of the issue.-
New York Tribune.
Norwalk Chronicler