The fresh, loose opium pill will narcotize quickly; the old, compact, dry one will dissolve very slowly, act locally, produce little sopition, and thus be more effective as a contraria for a certain kind of diarrhœa.

It will be noted that it required four quenchings to entirely sorbitize the steel.

A month later the governors of six more states, meeting in conference, enigmatically urged the impressment of slaves for “the public service as may be required.”

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