466 METALS—THE NOBLER.
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married), he took the ladies to " Lunnon, by stage coach, on a trip to
'joy theirselves." " Here be a weddin' party; broide, and broidesmaid,
and the groom ; and if a mon doant 'joy himself noo, when ought he, hey
1 Draat it all; that's what I want to know." " To have seen Miss
Squeers, when, after the night's rest, she came down to a substantial
breakfast at the ' Saracen's Head,' in all her maiden glory of white
frock, and spencer, white muslin bonnet, (with an imitative damask rose
in full bloom on the inside thereof), the bonnet-cap being trimmed with
little damask roses; also wearing a broad damask belt, matching both
the family rose, and the little ones ; to have beheld all this, and to
have taken further into account the Coral bracelets, (rather short of
beads, and with a very visible black string), which clasped . her
wrists, and the Coral necklace which reposed on her neck, supporting
outside her frock a lonely Cornelian Heart, typical of her own
disengaged affections ; to have contemplated all these mute, but
expressive appeals to the purest feelings of our nature, might have
thawed the frost of age, and added new fuel to the fire of youth."
The
use of Tin-foil as a beneficial appliance over wounds, for aiding their
process of healing, has found well-merited favour in Paris of late,
especially with Dr. Amat. In a recent lecture which he read before the
Therapeutical Association of that capital city, he advised this
metallic agent for the topical treatment of open wounds, or torpid raw
sores. The layer of Tin-foil is to be fastened on over the wound with
an antiseptic bandage. But furthermore a novel addition to this
treatment was commended in the form of " the skin