THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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The voice grew fainter, and.asin a dream, 



I pondered long the solemn oracle. 



Still, as the moonlight c?lmly o'er me 

 streamed. 



Soothing my mind with pensive melan- 

 choly. 



I could but tear the echo of that sigh. 



Borne on the wings of subtle fantasy: 

 "But what's the use?" 



IRON IN ECGS. 



There is scarcely any branch in which 

 medicine has not advanced in the last 20 

 years, but in no one branch has more im- 

 provement been shown than in the 

 compounding and putting together the 

 drugs. No more is the unwilling patient 

 made to swallow large doses of nauseating 

 medicire, for sugar coated pills, capsules 

 and wafers have come into use, and pa- 

 tients can now take the most vile-tasting 

 medicines without any discomfort Now 

 comes along a Frenchman with a more in- 

 genious plan which opens up pharm- 

 acy unbounded possibilities of going still 

 further ahead. 



On account of the difficulty of assimilat- 

 ing iron a* a medicine, a French drugsrist 

 has sought tn introduce it in a digestible 



way by what he terms ferruginous eggs. 



Hens can digest iron easily while ren- 

 dering it back through the albumen of 

 their eggs in a form that is easily digested 

 by the weaker stomachs of mankind. A 

 salt of iron is given to the hens with 

 grains of wheat. A dozen of these medi- 

 cated grains of wheat a day makes the 

 hens, after three or four days, lay eggs 

 which are very rich in iron already 

 digested. 



The Frenchman is experimenting fur- 

 ther with other drugs, and it is not with 

 out the bounds of possibility that we shall 

 shortly be able to take all our medicine in 

 in the form of eggs. New Orleans Times- 

 Democrat. 



UNREASONABLE. 



''I don't want to hurt your feelings," 

 said the man who was evidently in a hurry, 

 "but your contention doesn't seem reason- 

 able. You say there is no telling the 

 trouble we are going to have with the Phih 

 ippines." 



"Yes, sir," answered the excitable 

 friend. 



''Then, what's the use of taking up time 

 trying?" Washington Star. 



