| Show THIRST nearly yearly a hi indred hundred ye years ars ago DC DX lind su suggested cg ested to captain kennedy that thirst might be quenched at sea by dipping 0 the clothing in salt water and putting 0 it on without with gilt wringing 0 subsequently the captain on being cast away had an opportunity of making malting the th experiment with great difficulty he succeeded in p persuading a part odthe men to follow his example and they all i su survived while the four who refused and drank salt water became delirious and died to putting on the clothes while wet night and morning be wetted while on two wo or three times during the day captain K goes on to say after these operations we uniformly found that the gioi violent ent drou drought ht went off and the parched tongue was curn carn cured in a few minutes after bathing ing our clothes while we found ourselves as much refreshed shed as if we had received so ac tuai nourishment the bare possibility of the truth of the statement makes it a huni humanity anity for any paper to give it a wide publicity since there are few tew readers in any heridi hundred ed who may not gp to sea and be shipwrecked we personally know that wading wadim in water quenches thirst and very few readers can re member being thirsty while bil bit bathing thing at the seashore sea shore or while swimming in in our rivers when the fearful horrors of dying with thirst are remembered andee more fearful madness which is the certain result of drink drinking irig sea water ta to allay thirst it is ceita celta certainly well to encourage individual experiment in this direction and solicit an authentic of the same nail nali hall journal of health 1 A WESTERN CRITICISM A correspondence 7 aw 11 mo oft the buffalo courier narrates 1 athe the fo foI fol owing lowing shrewd criticism passed by a 44 rough augh 11 western esteria man on the prairie picture by beard the well known artist of 0 cincinnati A few ago as I 1 was wag standing admiring miring as I 1 confess myself quite fond of doing that beautiful deer gr group a tall unmistakably western man icamen behind ine tre and looked over my roy shoulder eh I 1 noticed abonce the quick stoppage of afi breathing but to my sur bur surprise pr is e the stop was short and something like a laugh quickly succeeded looked looking up I 1 elsaw saw a yellow face overspread overspreading over spreading in with bilth a smile an and there was a decided twinkle in the tha eye pshaw said he 11 thatIs BO no sturl after all that aint no fair representation 11 why said 1 that struck me tue as being a a pretty goo good painting 11 may 1 L la be its good oo 00 enough h for a paining 1 said the I 1 western es rn man 1 I dont say anything 0 agin that bu but there ere never was no scene enacted ilbe lifee it jest look at that tall rice grass up there and then the fern weeds below who ever saw them grow together why the one grows on wet and the other on dry land but pretty wet land and he be concluded and jest see them deers feet how bow clean they be they ought to be mud up to their knees and at the uit zit galt gait going at be spotted with mud all over I 1 tell ye when I 1 went to that country first the men me sometimes driving their wagons on to a wet prairie but tell me it was all right and sure enough I 1 find good bottom a foot down then the next thing I 1 knowel they would be booked gibing iving a pretty wide berth to a place that looked at first sight like the other and I 1 soon found an easy way to tell was by the grasses if any of ye know that painter chap aj said the unconsciously keen critic aa as be he prepared to move g ot off jest tell him but no use he said lowering his bis voice a good enough city pral prairies pr airiel |
