The Exeter Times, 1885-11-5, Page 7RBA,
Immunity 'Froea Disease.
The Lancet, of June, 18$5 has en article
explaining acquired immunity from info
times dine:lee We zeive the leading points.
As 4 tule, oxte attack f thee moose*
orders immunity from a affirm:merit attams.
A like immunity from centaut intention
Ozone is conferred by inoculetion by a
modified form of emelepox, gerierally pro
tote egainet the violent feral.
humour, of Primo, expleius meth pherione
one by supposieg that the DIA Attack ex -
haunts
On aubetaace in the patient amen
lal to the development of A taimeneopio
paresitea which cause the disease ; end thet
then who are bora with ouch inurzunity are
naturally free from this aubotenee—just as
some landt, whine hue been fernte in
certain plants, totty loae this fertility ity ex -
intention of a aingle element of the roil;
while other lends are naturally without
this element, and hence eurable to grow them.
Thiele the exhanation theory
If this theory were true, then the flesh of
an mimed thus destitute of this essential
substance ahould not, if made into a broth,
iureislemethrial for tire growth of infecnoue
germs, purpoeely introduced. But then
gerund° fitment in it.
The antidote theory is advocated by Kiel:*
of Germaey, and Klein of Bugled. Aniord•
ing to thin during the the; attach awno
alsemicel eubetartee la produced which to
entemoulatic to the infectione paraaite or
germ, and wlaieh remain* In the 004Y of the
animal au d prevents the obeequent develop-
ment of the latter ; this cherateel aubat ance
exion neturally in ouch aa are insusceptible
te the Moo. The proof aerial:it rem
t*t le
i
Wen, the leine in that regounst the ex-
heuttien - eory, Blood from the veto et
teelmele ohersethrized by baroniay doe
not kill the latectione germ purposely in.
trodueed into it, Bolen, the ponona the*
punted root be ;unmated to remain in the
velee for many years, or for Ito ; wlele we
know Vert neidental peisoes, -Ono mortel,
are *away* non eliminated from the system,
he tneory adveroed by the writer in
Called "the ritai resittance theory.Vital
olte. ecteriatice are leheriteni. Some reriugn
Inherit a feeble, and come 2. robust, acezialtu.
ticn ; mime ex tendon* tet long life, some to
early decay ;Nome a 'Meng a.uel some a week
reristance te morbitio it &mice. Further
whatever lowera the veelity for a thne,
lento this resistence Wbether feeble or
atm g, thio vital remittance ie a property.of
the liviog wetter et the b nly ami reveled in
It* elementery cells, '1'heee cells inceerently
produce tbeir kind, Hernewhen the olio
tune ouenved the drat etteck, they Wive
*squired a now power of retiree:or, and
thee now power la trennuitteci, in oonstwaz
inICOenalelo, ta the new progeny ef cello.
As for inherited lorinuelty, tt Mint* from
the 0 survival ef the inteet." Tee negro,
OA a race, ts tolerate of malaise leseceuete,
Ovine in mistrial regions for ago, the moat
sumaptible bine been greduelly killed ar.
Nerblvorom mirnals are peculiarly ecomerpt.
ibla to the poison of putrefaction. It is the
reverse with the carnivorous, The latter,
often (carting on putrid lieth and wounding
each other with i heir teeth, have ever le en
grotty exposed to the Dolton. Only thoo
of least eusoeptibility have survived.
Food and sleep.
The Mega of " Early to bed and early to
rine mikes a Mari healthy, vrtalthy and
wise" Is a good one if curled out, that is,
U the early to bed Indiums only dein if
t but the vreklas of children to hoe au
early by aat with the family is an old
time thst, like many others held to
totem tattiest in youth, leapt to be de -
in later yeate. Senalble people
sometimes talk of Sleep as though it were
An amid:int of life that overtake* ua—some.
thing we nauet at timet auceamb to, but as
i
of no mport.nce to our well beteg ; its houra
can be orekeu in men, or be aone away
with at well ea not, forgetting, or not real-
izing, tbat Sleep and peeper food a e able
luteld'ne emery for our life. If sleep omen
not, we die; if wo rat not, v,e die ; there.
fore it la esaential to health and comfort
that both bo furnialied in aulficient quatite
ties end at reguler lute/vale. The writer
has known an excellint mother who
brooght up her family wisely and well in
every other way, except iu regard to those
two points. To the early breakint at 0
o'clock, both summer and winter, the child-
ren must come, or go without ; and the
very facit that always going to bed early,
and than were inclined to sleep longer in
the morning, shows it was needed, and they
should laa,ve been allowed to awaken of
themselves. Then, too, the older obildren
coming home hungry from reheat and find
ing the dinner diesasteful (salt firth, pt there
--dinner tbat must be eaten or have nothing.
"It was good, wholesome food—good
enough for anybody"—therefore the log o
You must eat it," and sa the child,
nibbling the distasteful food and finishing
on the lighter dessert, leaves the table un-
aatisfied and really unfed, for when the
sharpened appetite 113 met by agreeable food
the pleasure of eating causes the waive to
flow readily, and mixing with the food is
made ready for the stomach's digestion.
Much of the discomforts and ills of later
yeara come from the utter ignorance and
disregard of these truths; and children
ahould be taught not by onset rules in re-
gard to it, but by pleasing conversation in
the family,. that sleep and eating are God-
given blessings, not to be abused.
Th the Firelight.
1' MOM MOW!
The fire upon he hearth is low
And there le Stillness everywhere—
Like troubled spirits here and there -
The firelight shadows flutterlog go.
And ae the shadows round me creep,
A. childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a further room
/ Comes " Now, I lay me down to eleep."
And, somehow, with that little pray'r
And that sweet treble in my ein8,
My thought goes book to distant years
And lingers with a dear one there;
And es I hear my trhild's amen,.
My mother's faith cornea back to me --
Oros dud at her side seem to be.
And mother holds my hands again.
,
Oh 1 for an kour ijithat dear place—
Oh 1 for the pbace ot thas dear thno—
• Oh 1 for thst childish trust sublime—
Oh 1 for a glimpse ot mother's face 1
• Yet, ae the shedows round me oreep
I do not were to be alone-- '
Sweet magi° of that treble tone
And "Now I lay me down to sleep!"
They do queer things in Switzerland, eon
-
;deleting that the Swiss eulegize then; eon-
tre as "the land of liberty.' The children
of poor people are regularly hired out by
election in most of the cantons. There was
a most painful 800118 recently in the market
place of Biel, a town near Berne, where. in
epite of the heartrending entreaties of a
widowed mother, her four young children,
ranging from 2 to IO, were "placed" out for
a year I o the highest bidder by the public
oder; the family being thus broken up and
separated for fear lest the woman ould be
compelled to seek for assietenoe ra e
town,
STATISTICAL,
yell intimated that the porge of bangers
river was out oav in about 35,000 years, bni
envoys to dotter:dim the prone rate of
recession of the fee e indicate Cud the work
uay have bee a doLe in 10,000 years. Dar
erg forty-one yeare the average rienual weer
it he rook. was 2g feet.
There are existIng more than forty Egypt-
ian olrellika ; rnaey of them are fat:en and
broken. The.° are seventeen of thorn In
Italy, seven in Eoglatid, two in Franee, two
Commeeinopte and cite in America. The
atECIALeat is az nerhiti, whiela is twenty•five
and a hied niches high. An unfinished out
the quarries at Sytne is eiitilliAted to weigh
1,500,000 poends,
Tee estate of population in the United
Stens
is moving rapidly weetward, it is
now a mite to toe south of Cineinneti, hey -
lag long *no nomad eke Alleghenian The
movemeut inee been about 44.5 mime wen
Lor every mile ;south. In 1890 tire movement
westward vn I probably be even greater, end
no rapid has bee u the eettlerne n; of the Norte
wen, the centre of populetien will befart)ier
north than at present.
The now railrcad atation belonging to the
North Western Bailviny Company at Bile
mieghern, Englaud, has been completed 0,1e1,
is Mae !argot structure of the kind in the
wo Id. it covens twelve acres of ground
mei $5.000,000 have been expended upon it*
coutruerwie ; one thousand weakener& have
been employed upon it for two pare and a
belt. TEM platform exceede s inde and a
half in length aud four haunted trains daily
pan through the tunnel*.
The people ef the United States drink
ithout two genera of leper for every buthel
of wheat they tromume Aeording to vita
del repute the Ilimor annually ceiromed in-
ebriate 09,Ia0.903 gellona of spirite, 10.185e
953 burette or ter/noted tumor, and 110.508e
345 pinata et wine. Ettimetiog the popule.
non ae about SS 000 000, toe atentire eon-
azuniption eppeere to tio ebout 1 2 gedime of
ithikey for each ever= yearly, over 10 25
gelleee of beer, and .35 en a ellen of wine.
the quantity of boar outrauund appeeta tube
about 49;1,000,0001;40rue
The Cam Alexander I. died Dee. 1, 1S25.
In 1tr33, hie fennel and adviser, M. Arent -
(motif, depositrul in the imperial Bank of
Ruda dime thottood roubles (ebout 437 500)
to murmur at Uneven till the I:madmen mun-
vereary of Al modern death, when tame
fourthe of the bum ia to he awarded by the
St. Petereburg Actedemy of Solent:ea to the
person wbo shall wan the bast history of Ina
nage, and (tee fourth reentered for the ex.
pence cf pub/fait:too. At four per out ire
wrest, the neon, sier.ount wW he 1,430,220
rouble*, or $1,079,415 Perhape the cue4 is
already bore wee is te noire thie not hen -
reelect.
Pew persons are aware of the exteneive
mane eif the victualing on bond the greet
0013041 steamers, litech vend is provisioited
as folio** for the pentagon iincl crew ;
Three thoueend Ove uundred pounds of but-
ter, 3000 halo, 1000 pounds of b,scuite, ex.
eluente of thou supplied for the crew; $OO
pounds of grapes, nautude, km and other
Sitsweeitt itUlts ; 140 pounds ef jammed jellies;
tinned mean, 6000 pounds; dried beans,
3000 pounds; r co, 3000 pounde ; mom.
5000 immure ; pennies, 40 tons ; dour, 300
barrels, end eggs. 1200 dozen. Proti vege-
tables, mote and live bullocks, shop,
geese, turkey, (Woke, fowls, fish and game
are generally supplied at each port, so that
it le difficult to Winne° them.
The Wrong Customer Again Diatttrbed,
Re was the grouch old man you ever
saw. He looked around the pesserger
mmoh lu a way to prove that ho hed never
entired one ea ore, and he sat down BO
eoftly, mid melon to lee so afraid of damag
ing scurething, that all the passengers
smiled,
by and hp a young man went over and
sat down beside bine 1 his yourg nun
might have been directed by Intel afft *note
and he might not it Which. way, uncle ?"
he or f asked.
Mer Oa, I'm goin' to see my darter in
Toronto."
44 E.er travel much?
"This le the first time I was ewer on the
keers. ive &iv' off seventeen miles with
the oxen to see my other darter, but oxen
haat no comparieon to these kens."
"1 ale wild a y not. It takes a lot of
money to go to Oetarin and beck. '
k 11),,p'reireetunl
mlost'but 1 jiyou could Change hundrai
m aold the farm, you
donee bill for me ? '
"Oh, jiat as wed as not."
"I may want you to by and by. This is
good weether, eh ?"
" Strordinery weather fur fall. Jameo
hes been sae rried ebaut his cone but I guano
it's all tafe."
Nothing further wail aaid for some time.
the old man It eking out cf the window and
the young man reading a paper. The train
made a few atop, and the oar was so warm
that after a little while the old man began
to yawn and nod. He fought it off for ten
minutes, but at last his head fell hack, and
his gentle snores mingled with the war of
the wheels.
A slim white hand, with tapering fingers,
rested on lois leg r then it was elevated to
his breast. Its touch was that of a feather,
Its movement was that of a serpent creep
irg forward to strike. The fingers touched
an old-fashioned 'wallet. The young man
continued to read, and the old man slept on.
Inch by inch the wallet was lifted from its
snug restingplace'and the hand was almost
reaoy to remove itentirely, when something
happened. With a sudden movement of his
right hand the old 'Ban pinned the interlop-
er fast, and his voice was heard calling
"You blamed skunk 1 But 1 knowed
all the thnewhat you were after! 'Where's
the conductor In
There was a ruah of passengere, and they
found a helpless, oonfuled pickpocket and
an indignant, but net elated old men.
" Coma= his prokturt but he took me
fur an ole haystack from a back n adder !
Work roots on me, will ye 1 Sot a trap fur
me and felt into it yerselft eh?'
Even a profeesice al pickpooket hadn't
cheek =ugh to urge a single excuse. The
fellow hadn't one blessed word to my, and
was walked off to the beggage oar to be kick.
ed to the platform at the next station.
• "Ye see, Baia the old than, as he turned
to the inquiring passengern "I hadn't
orter done it. When a roan has bin con.
stable, or drover all his days, travellin' ail
over and menu' with all sorts of folks, he
hadn't orter play off greenhorn and break a
young mann heart like this, but I felt sort
o reckless this mornint I mast put a outb
on myspeerits ; I'm gettire too old tole,-
,playba, jokes en oonfidin' young men 1"
The Prince of Wales has 75 uniforms and
a score of official costumes, as Governor of
the Charter House, Prosidett of the Society
of Arts and imiumerable other distinctions.
Bis dress by which he is chiefly knovra, that
of an. ordinary English gentleman, adds
maiiy costumes to a wardrobe which would
enchant the most fastidious dandy,
MISS ELLA ON TII.B Fddi
rite True Story as Relatet by the Farmer
Te tlo Editor Notioin' In your columue
quite recent esaaraePli to the followire :
Mies Ella Witchezel, a charming young
• tehool teacher of "V Winn, Iowa., fueling slic
close confinement and animus dunce of the
44120441 room Waring tier lunette eried the
out-cleor cure. loatead of spending htr win -
tern salary and owner vacation in a crowd
ed hotel at the aniabore, she went oil 4 %VW,
out twenty acres of prairie hay, herveatee
tarty acres of wheat, gained twenty pourele
in weight, a coat of tan tor her hands and
face, and a rugged beelth that cannot be
equalled anyweere off a farm. Teat's the
girl you axe looking far, young maa."
sNow, what 1 wzurt to say I ten well ac
aueinted with this young school mann Peet
it was my farm ohe vent the summer ce.
Nice girl, Ede te, aa ever ruu wild in the sun,
We
was glad, wife arn rani to have her come,
an' she did "bout as strepieased on the farm
I'd omen read la the pepers 'bout niece young
womeu that tenet *dot in the winter ano
Wined in the Bummer, but !never had any
experimmea of 'ern before.
Well, eir, she farmed. Pint day, nothin'd
do but ahe mot drive the hoes rake We
every mon and woman thav cornea from town
wants to drive the hoes reke, an' they can
Shat gratin' in the hey. My little Janey,
eleven e ears old ',text May, venally drives
the mike for um, but ahe men been belie"
overly peen thin Munroe • an' 1 kinder kept
her eut of the suu. So Min Ella gita bonen
booded up on tbe bon rake—my boy Joe he
boosted her—an' then ahe ocreacrted and fell
ff ; thou she got on again, hi; the boas a
creek rua away the werit on the dead, jump
out o' the Sold ioto the rod, hota a-golua
duet A dein', and Mioenanoreeohin'. Some
of the men t tinted her off an' Mopped the
hon. Then she tried it spire Tine time
*he stuok right through the diatribe arena
where it wee tallest and thickett, and Ian-
giedeat ; hen a bellzhn and' tuggin' away
by turn, gran boldin' en or annex' up by
the roots, rake teeth a spAppin'.
We get her OU1 of ;het, an' loot ti whole
day on the rake, gettild iv molded.
Then she ttied drivild a load into the big
barn Hied to send to teeboan for a ladder,
• an' then all toe AM )24 to go clear out of
• the field a brie *be climbed up on the Imre.
Drieun in, she gat thewagon cauebt in a
hedger gap aa endues the Missouri River' run
aver twit etude of bees, upset the loadand
buried herself under three hundred pounds of
h ty. It was toe eanot pine for ter upcier
the eXi,ithe CiiCitrostaneen no we just left
her there outil toe boa gut canon dowse
or' we gat same work dorm,
Next load elle went In ove end. then turned
all el the meta out of the barn while aim
climbed up Writhe mow, an' thou elm wands
end arouod ontil she atepped into a thine
an' shot out al out twerietwieht feet letto the
cow barn, and lit right on tire beck ef eater -
tem, calf that was north two hundred and
any dollare of any men* money, an hour
before.
Min Pala wenn killed, but *he was Bin
intoned up that she ley inbed two dome an'
bat for that provideuce, wed hey been nark'
in at thet bay yet. An' anybody that mune
a beekereback °elf oau bave one at big own
tiggere.
Well, Goma wheat honed, eba must drive
tte self bieder. That was a little too riaky,
but she had her own way. But she couldu't
be trusted up *hove the knivea, so ;somebody
hsd to set up theze an' hold her on. My boy
Joe hold her told Joe elle was a mak'n
a fool of bitn—an* if she Man make him
drive around every poppyani every blowure-
in' weed la thrit field, to save le Never
mind the when, but save tbe blamed weirdo.
There was ouly one stump on tbat three
hundred and te tarty acres of prairie bend—
iest one stuuma-mn I hope I may go to seed
mine Thanksgtvire if that girl didn't ran
into it an' break the reaper. We loot all the
rat of time day muffinit.
e et, we all liked the girl. But the
idea of her iambi' / Why, de you know,
sir, one day in bayint *he went to town—
took one of my beat work horses an' vat
go ne all day—an mune bore e with 'boat
twenty yards of blue au' nhine nibI oozt, an'
tied it on the ments hats, and the rake
hendlts, an' wanted us all ti wear bile d
anirt , with the 'doves looped up with blue
ribbon, an' go meet:thin' out to the hay-fielo,
nie et the head, with the mod an' longest
ribbons, a singine :
" We are merry haymakers, fro, be, la, be le I"
She saw it deo that Amy t nee in a core:eat
or theatre, fur thoght that was the way
hayin' was always done. An' she was so
vexed that she erred when we wouldn't wear
'ewe
Law, when I put on that hat, ma laid back
an laughed till the teare ran down her dear
old cheeks
"Job Thiralepod," she said. " if you go
out an' work in that rig, you'll scare away
the graeshoppere."
My bay Joe, he did wear his hat out, but
e hid it under a hedge when he got out of
sight of the house.
I told Joehewasthe biggest fool 1 ever soe.
Well, Miss Ella got along fairly well after
wbest harvest. She gathered some "grate.
fill sprays," she called 'ern, of poison ivy,
one day, and couldn't see out of one eye en
nigh a week.
048 day she took a tin pail to go out after
berries, mid when abe wentthrough the cow
pasture the cows saw her and thought there
was salt in the pail, and they chased her till
she was nigh ready to drop.
And she went to the barn once an' tried to
hennas a young Tuokahoe colt that had
never had a halter cn him ; 'an' how she got
out of that stable alive if! more than I can
ever tell you.
But what I wanted to say, le, that that's
about the way the young women who farm
so graceful in the new:weepers, usually farm
on the farm. But we lilted her, an' we hated
to see her go. An' she will make a splendid
wife for some man, if she can't run a farm ;
but I don't know about your young men
comin' out to look after her, for when she
said good-bye to me to go back to town, she
throwed her arms around my neck, an' give
me a kiss, an' I says to my boy Joe, dandle'
by the wagon to take her to town, he was
always somewhere round,
"Joe," I says, "you'd give your share
in the fano for that 1"
But roe, he didn't seem to care for any-
thing of the kind, an' Miss Ella, she up an'
give me another squeeze an' a kiss, an' 'saw
her lookin' over my shoulder at ray boy Joe,
and— haw I haw 1 haw 1
The itinerant eye doctor of India perform
his operations with a confident celerity
which the more civilized wad would call
recklessness. As he enters a town he bawls,
n Do you want back your sight ?—one rupee
only." • When a customer appears he takes
out hie penknifemnd performs tire operation
while etanding in the open square. Then
he binds up the wound, tells his patient' to
keep in the dark for &fortnight, and pockets
his rupee. A writer in Cfliamb6rs' journal,
who describei this proceeding, nays that it
is almost always successful ,• one of hie own
servants, a woman of '80, was in this way
successfully operated upon for cataract.
EPIDEMICS,1 WOO imported originally on the steamer In
dia. front Loudon, Ragland, vie New York,
°ago, and thecae by Palm= car minden
ors to lifoutreel, where all tbe condition
favorable to de thread were found existing
with negligent ofteial aupervisiou, no smelt -
pox hoepital, ann isolation consequently inn
possibM ; the bitterest oppontioe and pre-
mclice among the reason against vaccine -
non, so that from two originel 08004, its spite
of every effort to prevent and stay ite pro-
ven, it has inereued. untilnaw, On. 1, there
axe probably, at lead 5000 cane in that city,
11,W4 as emery more eirople infected. A
itertith D partment, verthout competent
leanerrhip, peralmted before the spectacle of
a city with its ear -amerce in rains, its streeta
deserted by visitors, its people rioting and
denrunive ; a war of races inaugurated,
end ell unitary measures arrested, eith
each a.prearect as re. truly appalling, ell be
cause ma people are misled by deagning
demagogues who neck only pop sty
through opposition.
Epidemiee are preventable vie -norm, and
where this is not possible their severity on
be so modified by modern improveraects
Sanitary Science. as %ill make them easy to
cope with. Let ue hope, then, that the
sons at at the put wilt inn be Mit on the people
of the presene end future generation.
nr W, It; 33BSSSY, IATS ACTING SEAL=
OFFIOltit ar1,11S MTV' or molimixere
The mod( rn AngleSaxon leade the world
'n Sanitary Selenee, or tee art of permuting
he origin mid spread of coutagiou deemme
—and be, too, ie hard premised by tne Teuton.,
(Germane) ever in the front reek in P,xperi-
amen Science.
That thie is due in a great meature tents
anlighornateut whach these two races enjoy
iva consequence of their emancipation from
Intellectuel serfdom. and superatiticer, rosy be
referred from the feat that at restrietione
ead etinitnry reguletroms are as irketnne and
ee french neglected, and epidemic dioceses
are an frequeat and fatal tIMOOg the deirk•
stunned zoo or to -day as they were in the
1.4th and 15th centurion and Any attempt at
enforeenaesie of sanitary regunotona anion
4uok people,whether they 124 1 idians in hely
or New York ; Spaufarde ittSpan or Pau.
ipa; Preach la .Mendeiles or Siontreal, is
met nine prejudio and oppoaition, apd ex
ites the nausea to open Wm lion or in er
violence.
Tine is demonstrated by the °hare epi.
dentio in Itely, Spain and Preece, and near.
ars home, by the present lamenmble epidemic
of *mall pox in teie utreat.
Sanitary officiiile are regarded much as
rats tegard cane se tilt ir menet vet Wee,
and are lee end and deceived at every re int,
while ueath gathers unhindered au abundant
harvest throughtmt the land.
The piincipel Lector In the spread of epi-
demic mono srn ng the Letitia in Eastern
towns and cities 38 ti elrgeneral poeerteeene
the overcrowdirg whicir prevails, living bud -
died together in alt and dilepidated mai:i-
nane then home ceased to be servioeabOr as
buten, wan/boom c,r dwelling* fur the rich,
abandoned to the poor who ennui through
them lige ants le an anthill, but unlike aura,
living in ilith and rquilid poverty with its
OOncontitant condithm,
Sub was overorowded landau in 1348
wheel the Wick Death eleuned it boloomit; ef
100.000 as the penelty for violation of pate-
nt leem while at the agree period, SR th8
tOWO4 aud citelea of the continent el Earope
where the enwininea among the mains nen
even wean, tied the mod eorrible neeleot ot
the meet ordinary military preoeutioni pre
veiled, 25 arilliox e of persenn or A fourth
pert et the entire pop:3,140m, was rwent
Limey by Ir.
Other epidercies cecurred equally cleatnict•
ive to human lite. All of them owed their
origla and maintained their violetee througb
the favoring uuelonly !robin awl fearful we,
military ouuditioua nteler witich they lived.
In Englend, mall -pen pestilences were of
frequene mann no, and so widexpread t
trerthle was thew devantath g effects, retry
ing off from 30,00 :o 000(0 sal li in en, year
ba the tiedimet meanies ef Eusbead alone
—that pallenthropiete were moved to seek a
remedy, sue fount ouebn tan practice of in-
oculate n *f the Omen iteelf prectind
Turkey en 1 iniroduced lute Ennui be 1721
• by Lady Mere nioutegne, wife f the them
Tarklah Ambanion r This preatioe had the
effect of coeferrieg it inurunity fromfurther
etteeke, but often resulted In m severe attack
and in *premier% tbe disease by cot:anion.
Malty, in 1794, Jointer, actingum n the pop-
ular idea, prevelent *au ng the peasantry,
that peraona who had noun smelly sequined
hone or cow pox from bee dl log coalmine, could
nurse small -pox patients without risk of tak-
ing the dinette, and, an opportunity occur-
rttg, introdand the prectioe of vaccinetioe,
which he toted throe unitize lifter ou his
drst craie—the boy, Pbilips—by renvocina.
non (called Bryce* test) and inceulatien
with the innell-pox virus Rolf, when, to his
greet satisfaction the boy was found to
be proof seainst either. Arid thin be -
gen preoticelly, the greatest born ever
oeuferzed by sanitary ninon— although le
Gottingen, in Germaey, and in the heigtibor-
hood of Cork, 'bawd, non ation appears
to have been prectised anion; tile possetry
by the mothers thernselvea long anterior to
Jenner's duomm,y, Indetia there is a tomb -
atone bit village in Hertfordshire, whion
bean an inscrunien nine years p.lor to Jen.
nern discovery, th show that the party burn
ed three was the &at to practice vaccination
in Eeglend ; but Jenner made it popular.
ihe epidemina of the Middle Agee, grapb-
itially depicted by Heckel are attributed by
Dr. Guy, in his excellent treatise on public
health, to overerowding ia walled town and
°Weil vrhich no attendon was paid to
aewerage, water sepely, or bebita of person.
itt eletualiness; and it must be remembered
that these epidemics were not loose oppose.
big only here and there, but wide spread,
sometirnea devastating whole countries or
traversing an entire continent, and in the
ignorance and superstition id the people were
regatded as vi nations of God's anger with
national &meter.
In the twelfth century there were fifteen
widespread epidemics and nineteen famines;
and teethe thiateenth century twenty epi.
demics and nineteen famines ; and in the
forteenth century eight epidemics and nine
famines, sweeping away whole communities
of people living in filth and dependant upon
some one source of food supply which, fail-
ing, brought about famine and pestilence in
its wake. Witness the Irish ebip fever and
famine of 1847—a malignant and contagious
form of typhus fever, engendered purely by
starvation, filth, and overcrowdieg.
But the world progresses, and with the
general march of improvement sanitary see
euce grows apace and is fighting the battle
between life and 'death wail much success,
crowning its victories with daily marches
which astonish its most devoted enthusiasts,
and making it impossible for ouch a state of
things as before described ever again to recur
among respectable, civilized nations, because
sanitarlane, physician, legislators, an.d
people, all are combining to eradicate evils
and, to secure efficient drainage, water sup-
ply, and sanitary regulation, conserving
Ole and modifying disease by 'isolation of the
infected and by progressive medicine, pro-
viding humane hospital management, and
ekiiful nursing for the sick.
Epidemics of cholera have, from time to
time, arisen in the East and spread over the
entire commercial North, devastating town,
and cities in its progrese—thus in 1832-47.54
it reached and raged in Canada, wiping out
the inhabitants of alums and filtleacumulat-
Mg regions, and sweeping away ht most oases
She entire list of customers of the tavern and
restaurant. The inference hi plain, Southern
Bengal and the delta of the Ganges is the re-
puted home and birth place of cholera. where
all the conditions favorable to its rise mid
progress exist. Here it is said to always ex-
ist, but the enlightened management of Brit-
ish Military, Medical and Sanitary Science,
with movable camps, has so reduced the
danger to .garrisons that almost comptete
immunity is now enjoyed, and the garrison
will escape without a loss even when it is
raging in the surrounding villages. The
ravages of the present epideraio last year
and this, in Ilaly, Spain and the south of
France, is an evidence of the groom supersti-
tion and ignorance which still prevail in
gone conmaunities among the darkskinned
races csuaing them to openly rebel against
their beat benefactors, the medical men and
eanitaria.ne And the experience of the pros.
mit amall-pox epidemic! in Montreal, chwhi
PRAIRIE NEES,
TAR DISASTROUS RASULTS Or °AIMLESS.
NAM
The recurrence of prairie fires in the
Qu'Appelle region has been moat remark -
note, and there iii a prevalent opinion
that they are not all of accidental origin,
which °Pinion is not eirtirely without
foundaticu. ale day Jut week the ;stage
driver raw a beltbreed boy deliberately
set tire to tire prairie ikna then reznouet
hia pony and ride , ti at full *peed. Mn
R It Smith ado temifio to haviog
UK81.4 it waggon come to it Mend:0111 on a
nen not fur from hie house, and in a
few minutes the &masa were sorted cif
ats a high rate of apee,d. Mr. Smith mart
hie hired man made for the Imo; and ar-
rived in ticae to prevent a cotilegretion ;
but !duce then another fire nes bon
started in the nuns icc..lity, wiiich au
deatroyed quite a hit a tinibm in the
coulees on the south aide ef the town
On Monday fires were ingbeg en the
north a the volley for a dietatne et tea
un dimea Innen and towarde t venhig the
hike presext.4 a magnifiesnt eight, being
Icrowned with are fur *extra * ttee with
here and there a &tram of fire running
down their aide*. Ssytral pinions boat
i tits Or Stade of hay and grain by the fire,
1 fuil particulate cf which ars not yet to
' hand. Tarzhie ice's has 44150 bate ans.
tairail in all directions from. other Stew.
The P. M. colony his suffered a Feet
deal shrough a settler "accidentally al.
lowing the fire to get Shawl of him whale
brinung around his *tacks, many of his
neighbors irelug thtir crops thereby, and
Lime in addition to luting tbelr c nips boat
buildings, stock, aud implemeure. Oae
Blau by thhi fire lob nivateetbree aCree Of
crop. In view of the amount of lois to
*he country annually threugh tide GAO
GAUP, a law should be plmed on the
statute book making it an inclictabie of -
faro. for any person to burn the grata
around any ntitelc or budding. Tim pub.
lir math be protected ageinst the careless;
and incapable. It win oleo be its order
for our muoiolpst oouucils to make pro-
vision far the prevention of the spread-
ing of prairie fires, or if tboy are not en-
dowed at preatnt with at ffialent powers
tn seek arch authority from the North-
West Oaunoll albs marlin semen Aod
in the event of any legislature in tbe mitt-
en beirg obtained, it will be the duty of
every settler to see that the pn,visit ns
thereof are rigorously inane Ind, tor it will
only be by a' eternal vigilance" that inn
muuny from then cetaatrophies csa ba
soared.
The Shah of Persia.
It is interesting to one who la now resi-
dent in Per la to notice sti 1 in vogue
usages which were ptitothed in this cam.
try in early spa. Like Ida preaccee
sors, the Shah has Lucaerous and vast
pleasure grounds and palaces in the en.
virona of his capital, Alla ii alto a great
lover of the chute. A mum n fired at
sunrise arannuced the departure of His
j eaty with an immense train rI attend.
ants and horses, mules and moil on cne
of these axon ions. He is a. goed shot
and a bold sportsman; mar y us the tiger
or the panther he has brought down with
his ride, exporsinghinmelf to danger with
far more readiness than hie courtiere. A
photographer accompanies the royal cor-
tege on these occasions'who records with
the aid tf these= the trophles of the chase
or characteristic genes. One of these
photographs winch was shown me repre-
sented the Shah in front of his tent ga-
zing on five magnifitent !poxes which he
had, just slain among the mountain crags.
The Mall is himeelf a clever artist; some
of hie pen and ink sketches are epirited,
and eomethneeeceompained by a few lines
of original poetry. He is raid to be genial
and agreeable and fund of socdal pleasures,
ani from what I have seen of him I am
ready to believe ite He is also an adept
in handling cards, and high stakes are
often played in leisure hours at the palace
or in the crimson tent he ccauples on his
aturneye. Deis not unworthy of remark
that the chief Persian game is the famous
or infamous American game of poker;
bub tho Persians had the game before
our continent was discovered. Query,
was
11 imported from Persia into the United
States by some enterprising yanked Tbe
mon valuable manuscript in Pests, esti-
mated by olkotors in the country at a
fabulous price, was won by its present
owner in a game of poker at the royal
palace.
A trim ankle is as pretty a hose car-
riage at we want to see.
A woman can sit in a theatre for three
hours without getting all cramped up,
witching the toothache or beemaiug faint
for vrant of fresh air; ft men cunt,
An Austrian professor clalme to have
dierovered that the soul is nothing more
n r less than tbe Eatural perfume of tbe
hair. That's a little rough on bald-head-
ed people. .
A farmer complained that his hired
boy ate 1 to raueh, whereupon th,e later
sobbingly buret out: "What are you
alters a pitchin' into a poor boy for 'cause
he's only a tryin' to work his weigh up!"
ala'S infinder and the
thought of the Creator.
Woman was an afterthought. Affair
;ha Creator had Anished Itbs WOrk and was
moiling It over to isee if theee watt any
dams in it he noticed a lonesome look wp-
an Adam'a face, and forthwith concluded
to give hear omen:dug DO wink about,
d man hail beau kept boy thilikingithent
woman ever since. Now if Adam ima
only ulna up a cheerful look and appear.
ed contented with hie surroundingsand
*Ming co sweetish hie own back, he would
have saved himself a wildernessuf trouble.
Re would have remained tb.e simori pure,
aure 8110114h lord a are:Wore with no
power bewail the throne to annul his de.
colons
and draw war maps upon hie class.
40 countenance. ,Fiewould leave no worry
about unpaid laundry bills, the fit of WO
coat, mining shirt buttona, em.hle trousers
}Addled at the knees- He would not have
bteu celled upon to reeds for his usify
huh and mut hie watch to procure the
wherewithal to buy ice nom for a girl
who intenda giving him the g. b. and
marry a bags -beaded milltoniare when the
ice cream sermon hes been filed away for
future referenee. His life would have
been one eremitical picrito, with bus ranch
atocluel with tbe ciencest fruits of eartb.
But in a thoughtless moment be allowed
the dark ;shadow of dieciontena to boyar
mein lee brow, and when he awoke front
ide niaata, behold there was it loving wife
welting to tweedy ask: "Well, are you
up lox all dayl" To Aclisoits error we can
truce the deadly mother-intlaw jtke and
all the lurid humor ;hat goes to ..00st ap-
art the pedal extremity of tbe famfented
fiamilt.rs ski Res mistake ;saddled upon
a weary werld Lay Langtry, Smelt lawn-
itardt. Lady Oherehill, -Cleveland's; dater
aro} Dr. Mary Walker. Itisaleo respons
sibie Tor the night key, the "proolug.
bueinere" lie, and the raiduight earenade.
But, on the whale, WO eze truiy glad "hate
Mere was illmbl. Merl he Leen othte•
wine there would have been rio pretty
evhoolmarma, no gardeu gem to swing on,
no piece to go on denday ertnings,no OIld
tO flirt, with, no one to belp tla rpend mit
decide, uo 000 50 tell tis we are hendsome,
and Welded, and brave, and noble, and
that our mustache Octave and that our
smile hi just tootweet fer anything. There
wend be no chitdren 50 lay hide and
meek with ne, no one for tin to peoten,
and a man with nolleng to debt for as like
I ship at lea militate opts= or ruelner.
Gd blos raderzati blunder end the after-
thmight of the Creator, wno, whet:11de
week wee eppareutly ended, created a
being half human
sball divine, to tube
the unieerae with laer moil%
it Skeptic Convinced.
The Beaton Evening Record teller a good
story aboet huw it woulo-ne tepee was
exposed At a. epiritualiatio ounce in that
01:7 a dem or two ano. 'The dellisr-vhead
" Pence' it .dbeen progress; 114.1110 tittle*
with the wail appearar eea of apintfonnr,
but without anythbog of further note ex -
• pt Ulu incredulows titan of a middle
aged Auntie who ocoupied a seat in
;mond row 10 company with a fon
younger In age anel teereir gni it Willey
In the auperuatural. tun cams, an an
uouncement front tbe raeclitm • it
splinh le here wbo wishes to see ',John.'
r he WOMSA graved him andwispi Eel ; "
gnus 1.1 ter mete dear." bore enough. I
was. The master of ceremonies* indicate.
as latch, and the ;caddie eyed person,
with oigrs of akeptical reluctance, aros
and stopped towards tbe c,abinet, fro
out whois curtains there ridvenced th
oenventtenal spirit in white. There w
in *mbar:torment in his manner of recog
n z ag this visitor hum another world
even is woken/a, witbob waanot ebrainish
when the wre.i.h spoke : "Dont yo
know me your vile, John 'I" Skeptic
he was, iahn seemed unable to deny th
relationthip, and bent bus head with isp
parent anulbegners to mays a mari
elite° rpm eistheek, when the voice
the ineumna woe nein heard " Anothe
spirit waute to fied J the," mud a aecon
veiled figto e, &being out of the darlrama
flea ed up to the pair, and, embraoin
notesepoke in a her away veice "De
John',, don't you know mem wives 1"
some 05 it resisting conviction we
tearing out unbelief by tbe rots from
aottl, came frornJonn's breast, and with
were mingled the words froan tbe cabin
"Here in needier spiritwho soya th8W811
to see John." Siraultanecuely advarte
and rpealis g, the third came Into vie
"Dear huaband, we are all here. Do
you know—"
Bat John broke away from the tri
embrace which impended, not waiting
theaentince tobe finumed, aedwith alo,
of horrified conviction which was vita
even in the darkneee of the ;seance ohs
ber, caught up the little woman itt
second row, now scbbing, and mad
quick exit.
"Skeleton" Wine.
Many years ago when wino and bra
les were the every -day drink of the
men of Boston, a particular barre
Spanieh wine was tapped and feund t
very remarkable for ita mellow
amoothness, and "body." It was te
at dinner parties and other occasions
pronounced a miracle of delight.
She barrel was emptied and was b
rolled away, a rattling was heard i
11 was km eked to pieces and a tv
human skeleton found lneide. Tht
counted for the remarkable "bod
the wine. The feelings of those
had sipped it with such gusto may
agined. An Investigation ab Cadiz s
ed that a cooper in a fit of anger had
ea his apprentice, bidden Ins body 1
musk and filled it with wine. In Mr
termaibaliani came to be added t
numerous sins of Boston.
Bill Nye knows an Millen iquaw
name tranalebed into our toegue
"The • sw if a -daughter -of -the -Nair'
zerd-thaegathers -thentucklaberry-
run-and-doidnyou.forget•it."
• lb was a case of breach of proem
defendant wee allowed to gay a
his own behalf, "Yes," he mid,
ed her aline et continually every e
I coifed at her house." Lawyer for
fenciant ; " Yea, I do confess 11
had to do ib." "You had to do it
do you mean?" Defendant : "T
the only way I could keep her fro
big," The jury gave a verdict
fendant without lettelug their tea