Sulphur For Consumptives

There are a great many intereítin oharacters ninong the inventors wlio rearly troop down to Washington to see ibout their patente. One of these men, William Heckert, of Yonkers, talked hls hearers into a state of entliusiasm the other day about tlie medical qualities of sulphur. Mr?. Heckert saya tliat in reading the history of Italy and other volcunic rpgions, lie found tliat periods of 'reedoin from epidemie disease eorresjondeJ wlth periods of volciuiic activity. n comparing labor stattatics has found one trade in which consnmption was uninmvn, tliat of sulpburlc acid makinjr. t occured to hiin tliat the antiseptic )ioperlies of the sulphur fumes killed the lisease germs in all these cases. His rifa wus a hopeloss consuinptivc. He legan liKvinff her inhale continuoiisly he fumes given off by the boiling of jrdinary floured sulphur In water. To lis delight f he begau to mend, and in ime was completely cured. In other cases, the ñames and dates oí which iré too numerous for repetitlon, he was successful. While Mr. Heckert patents many f bjl ideas he is quite williug tliat he consumptive public sliould have the 'uil benefit of this. The app:iratus is ni in pi v a glass retort with a spirit lamp leneulh and a tube trom which the jatient may fill bis lungs with the sul)hur vapors. A solution of cominon lulphur and water boiling in the retort will produce the necessary vapor. So tirmly couvinced of the feasibility of the remetly has its discoverer become, tliat nothiiiir but his busy life has prevented iU urging gome wealthy philanthropist to open asinall hospital forconsumptives, where it may be given a fair public trial. Víany an oíd custom, remedy or rule of ïealth had its root as firmly bedded in ruth as the most new fanjfled of modern scientilic maxims. t'robably no one of ,he endless jieoer;itloii8 of little Yankees whose firandmotliers have dosed tliem with molasses and brimstone, was ever convinced that the medicine really did iim :uiy good. In facl nothing more han Dickens' familiar delineations of Jie motherly Mrs. Squeers treating her young charges to this nauseous mess is s needed to render sulphur a dlscredlted remedy. Yet f the word of this simple liearted inventor and those of some who have taken up the study of the question are to be accepted, sulphur is the kinr of panaceas.- Wasliinstou Cor. New York Tribune. "Why," asked the governess of her little charge, "do we pray to God to give us our daily bread? Why don't we ask for four days, live days or a week?" "Because we want it fresh," replied the ingenious cliihl. A min told hls friend that be had jolned the aruiy. "What regiment?" bis friend asked. "Oh, I don'l mean tliat; I mean the army of the Lord." "Ahi what churcli ?" "The Baptist." "Why,' was the reply, "that's not the army; it's thenavy."