| Show LIFE IS VERY CHEAP 0 occupations THAT SHORTEN THE LIVES OF TOILERS dangers t to which painters and potters az AJ lead kai haj slain its it thoa than sands and d mercury its if chandri Han dri er ef t of 0 too much mitch silver on a atan my mi lady delicately tracing embr oid old at ry upon fine fina linen knows nothing and cares less about the men man who fash fashioner ionea the needle she ehe holds in her tapering fingers angers but bet those men shortened their lives in the making of it perhaps by the infinitesimal fraction of a second for that particular needle but bat when they thea they ground it and polished it they inhaled into their lungs longs the invisible particles of steal that flow from the whirring stone consumption is a very common disease among needle makers hanun life is the cheapest thing on earth row how many lives will it cost la Is a question that never enters into the calculation of architect bridge builder manufacturer of any one who supplies Bupp liea the necessities of the world forwards its progress pro greca greas or adds to its com comforts forta human haman life is the tha one raw material of which the crop nover never fails in prodding which there are no strikes And hile shile there are a vast number of trades and manufactures in their very nature dangerous to life you yon cannot induce the men who work at them to take up other occupations not even the offer of higher wages will tempt them which goes to show that a a man has as little r for his hia own life as aay y one else im hs for it no need to afield old lead into bullets ti te make it deadly workers of lead house painters artists gilders calico printers type founders and typesetters ahot shot found era potters and braz braziers ierg will tell you that so will the workmen who handle vulcanized rubber robber those who wrap goods in tinfoil even the fishmongers who handle lead counters cove covered red with brine lead poisoning next to alcoholic poisoning is perhaps the corn commonest onest toxic torio condition lead colio is almost as aa prevalent as that other colic that rouses the happy father and sets him to pacing the floor with his bis equalling squalling squal ling Ung soo son and heir when a man suffers with caroniti chro niti lead pol poisoning roning his digestion is disturbed he ele has no appetite and his skin usually takes on a peculiar yellow hua his gums guma show a characteristic blue luie litie which is sulphide of lead deposited there he has pains in his joints and ift times paralysis his paralysis usually affects the extensor muscles of the hands hand and fingers and so produces what is ia popularly called drop wrist once in ia a 6 while lead poisoning affects the brain A case is recorded ariere anere ere a painter eat fering from it thought he sa saw windbags blown up to look like men and other apparitions which made remarks to him and caused him a great deal of anxiety with all due deference to the medical faculty it would seem saem doubtful whether talk about wind bags blown up op to look liln men should be taken ea as an evidence wf of inz insanity anity there rarely are such things in real life workmen employed at extracting gold from its ores those who silver mirrors barometers and thermometers thermo have of coarse to live in an atmosphere I 1 more inore or less impregnated with mercury so bo do those who etch who color the finer sorts of wool and who take put part in ia the manufacture of felt hats bats in theat thea j latter occupations the mercury is in tho tn j form of its nitrate mercury is the delight of every dentist who whose heart IS really in his work too much of it sat oat ivales a man and makes his bis teeth drop out so 60 that a mirror is extremely apt to go mumbling too toothless through ufa life me like a loan lean and pantaloon photographers makers of hair dyes sud mid of marking ink handle a great ded et alver that lot might seem to toba ba very ry enviable but in those cases the sil id fa the nitrate or one of its various other compounds it is extremely liable to change the color of the man who handles it particularly that much oi of him tu ps is ia exposed to the light first his hia nails and fing fingers then his hands and face turn from white to grayish blue bin alta then to black copper is ia another metal that Is mighty dangerous to handle habitually lt it dows dowa the health of those who wh work in it copper enters into the composition po of any number of alloys into the common bronzing processes into the tha ulac lilac and purple fibers of bf the and into many pigments A green line appears on the gums of the unfortunate poisoned by copper so taftt if orle on has a desire to ornament his tums he has bas at least the choice of ids his colors blue with lead greenwich green with copper antimony is ia another health destroyer at least so far PA a men are concerned kermes mineral contains anti om acid it is used in vulcanizing vulcan izing rubber Type TTe founders are also exposed to the tb deleterious effects of antimony but however antimony au acts on men there has long prevailed an idea thy the truth of which is doubtful that antimony given to animals improves their condition says an old author A horse that is lean and scrubby and not to be fatted batted by any means will become fat on taking it a dose of antimony for two months together A boar fed for bacon and having an ounce of antimony given aliha liha every morning will bocc acme me fat a fortnight sooner than 0 others put into the sty at the same time and ted fed in the same manner but without the antimony it is an undoubted fact that in brunswick brunsd the breeders bleeders bre eders of fat geese add ad d a small quantity of antimony to the geemes food as a tra traditional custom new york world PROVO commercio Oom Com mercia and bank rava live five per cent interest on havinga savin gs leno aits inderst compounded four times ft a vear |
