A party of young people were about to explore a coal-mine.
One of the young ladies appeared drest in white. A friend
remonstrated with her. Not liking the interference, she turned
to the old miner, who was to conduct them, and said:
“Can’t I wear a white dress down in the mine?”
“Yes, mum,” was his reply. “There is nothing to hinder you from
wearing a white frock down there, but there’ll be considerable
to keep you from wearing one back.”
There is nothing to hinder a Christian from conforming to the world’s
standard of living, but there is a good deal to keep him from being
unspotted if he does. Christians were put into the atmosphere of this
world to purify it, and not to be poisoned by it.
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Mr. Hilditch, of the Sheffield Laboratory of Bacteriology and
Hygiene, Yale University, has demonstrated that the average
number of bacteria in each of twenty-one bills was 142,000,
while by far the most common forms present were the varieties
of the pyogenic staphylococcus. These organisms were not in
possession of their full virulence, but merely produced a more
or less local reaction, on guinea-pig injection, with swelling
of the lymph glands of the groin. Their constant presence
on money is certainly of greater significance than merely
indicating the exposure to the bacterial contamination of the
air; they clearly indicate that the money has been contaminated
by handling and without regard to the virulence or the danger of
infection to which these particular organisms themselves expose
those who receive the money, they establish beyond question
the most fundamental and significant fact for scientific
demonstration, viz., that money is a medium of bacterial
communication from one individual to another.--_The Popular
Science Monthly._
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