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Show DOOR-KNOBS. ' Sanitation sometimes stands on Its head, and becomes Insanity. This Is a phase of midsummer madness, .one. may suspect ' when a leading medical Journal warns us against the danger of contracting disease from imperfectly polished door-knobs. So many germs in. the householder's hands, so much for hlr knob. How .many doorknobs door-knobs sre there in this happy island? Give each cltlten two door-knobs a very meager estimate, for he probably touches a dozen a day and they will run Into minions. ' Is there a record anywhere of a disease caught from one of those thousands thou-sands of millions of door-knob "turns in anv single year?. To. this writer the question is of some interest. For, If door-knobs are unsanitary, unsani-tary, there are other things that should i.e Th t hi. within the last week his bare luinil has been In contact with omnibus ral;s, cab aprons, steamboat seats, balustrades balus-trades In populous city rials, postofrtce counters, railway carriage handles you iohv complete the list of the contacts of a t y liie with life. This has been going i t r Bune years now, with no hint of !!-. ,llave you ever met snybody -j from door-knob poisoning? J. i 'on Chronicle. |