Spitting Blood Not Sign of Consumption

1919

Most Tuberculosis Patients Never Have This Symptom.

There is no need to become alarmed if one spits blood. It is not, as so many think, a sure sign of consumption, for the overwhelming majority of tuberculosis patients never have this symptom, and the blood may come from the larynx, pharynx, teeth, stomach or even the small intestines.

Dr. H. Rabinowitsch of New York points out in the Medical Journal that when we consider the great size of the arteries that enter the lung and their minute ramifications on the surface of the delicate air cells we should not wonder if blood is sometimes coughed up from the lungs. Severe coughing or straining may easily break a small branch of one of these arteries.

Dr. Rabinowitsch says the hemorrhage itself is of slight moment. If it comes from aneurism, death is almost instantaneous; if it comes from a congested area and is limited, it is in some ways beneficial by relieving the congested area. It has another good effect — making a recalcitrant patient obey the doctor's orders.



Nail Illustrates Progress.

A common nail is an excellent illustration of the difference between old and new methods. Formerly the metal was cut into strips and then forged into shape with hammers. Today they are made of steel and are lighter and stronger. Strips are cut with steam shears and fed into automatic nail machines.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 9.

Takes Nails and Is Nailed

1919

Thief Leaves Fur Coat and Walks Away With Hardware.

BOSTON, Massachusetts — Samuel Donovan of an unknown address aroused the interest of Patrolman John Manning. Donovan, the officer alleges, stepped up to an unoccupied automobile and caressingly fondled an expensive fur coat, which he subsequently put down and walked away.

Later, the officer says, he returned to the machine, took out a heavy bundle and started briskly along the street. He had gone but a short distance when the officer stopped him and, after a few questions, escorted him to the City Hall avenue station. When the bundle was opened it was found to contain about seventy-five pounds of ordinary nails. The Christmaslike wrappings on the bundle were evidently deceptive.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 7.

Leave Fighting Dogs Alone

1915

Let the dogs fight it out. A Nebraska court has held that a man who voluntarily attempts to separate two fighting dogs cannot recover damages from the owner of the dog by which he is bitten.


Cause of Sleep

What causes sleep? Some have thought that it depends on a flow of blood to the brain resulting from a recumbent position, but you have seen that the brain contains less blood during sleep, and a person can lie down for a long time without sleeping. Repeated observations on the displacement of the blood pressure from the brain to the extremities during sleep gave basis for the thought that sleep is due to cerebral anaemia.


Their Days of Comfort

We have come to the belief that the happiest ones in the world are those who, having experienced wealth and the intolerable bother of keeping to a certain standard of fashion and high living, lose their money and are then able thoroughly to enjoy the ease and comfort of poverty and privation.


What "Penny" of Nails Mean

The terms ten-penny, etc., as applied to nails came from the number in a pound, pronounced pun. Nails of such a size that it took 1,000 of them to weigh four, six, eight or ten pounds were popularly known as four-pun' nails, six-pun' nails, eight-pun' nails and ten-pun' nails, respectively; and in the course of time, four-pun* nails, six-pun' nails, etc., were gradually corrupted to the meaningless four-penny nails, six-penny nails, etc.


Considering the Ant

A sapper of effectiveness is the habit of thinking ourselves busy, says the Nevada Post. Its confusion of thought is a certain preventive of accomplishment. The ant which frantically runs up a grass stem and then runs down again is doubtless racking his nervous system with the idea that he is busy, but he is gathering no food for the colony.


Double Lack of Understanding

One half of the world, dissatisfied with what it has, can't understand how the other half can be dissatisfied with what it hasn't.


Optimistic Thought

Let it content thee that thou art a man.