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J -1 SPREAD OF PHTHISIS. PROF. TYNDALL ON THE PROPA GATION OF CONSUMPTION. The Ma n era of Nnriec A Pirn for Spittoon Tha Intreaf lug Conclu sion of Dr. Cornet, Patient Cier man Investigator. Ia a late Fortnightly Professor Tyndall has a very" Important article on "Tin Origin. Propagation, and Prevention of Phthisis. It is a condensed account ot the result of the discoveries of Dr. .Cor net, a colleague of. Dr. Koch, at the Ini- erial Sanitary Institute at Berlin. What Dr. Cornet has discovered, says the lie vieto of Reviews, practically amounts to this, tltat the tubercle bacilli, or tlie in fective matter of consumption, is almost entirely propagated by the conversion of the sputum of consumptive patients into dust, which is afterward breathed by people. Hence, the true way to prevent the spread of consumption is to induce all consumptive jwitients to use a spittoon , and never to expectorate at large '- ' v ;V Dr. Cornet found that the . consump tive germ retained its virulence for at least six months. .The dust of, the room in which a consumptive patient has lived contains the seeds of the disease, which, when taken into the lungs of a healthy man, may produce consumption. The real cause of consumption running in families ia not because it is inherited, but because there is family infection, due to the breathing of the dust of the dried expectoration of the consumptive patient The room in which a consump tive patient has lived, and who has not jsed a spittoon, the walls and all the fur oiture are full of virulent bacilli, whereas the dust in rooms .where the spittoon is constantly used is absolutely free from the deadly germ. ' The first law, therefore, which must bo laid . dovrn for. consumptive patients is, never use a pocket handkerchief and never : spit on . the floor, arid always ind everywhere use a proper spit-, i soon.", Dr. Cornet would have spittoons n all offices, Workshops, all public build ings, corridors, and staircases.: In fact. So read r Dr. Cornet'B suggestions, we eem to be within measurable distance from tha time in which, if a consumptive patient is found spitting upon the floor r into Ids handkerchief, he will promptly lent to a jail or hospital for a period not ixceeding two months. : Professor Tyndall gives some very re markable figures' as to the mortality of ourses in Germany as the result of their lability to tuberculosis. , More than one- . aalf ' the deaths of Catholic nurses in 18 German hospitals were due to this dis fuse. Nursing is one of the deadliest oc , :u pat ions known to man, or rather to woman; a healthy girl of 17, devoting aerself to hospital nursing, dies, on au tverage, 211 years soon than a girl of the tame age in the general population. A tvoman of 24 will live 22 years longer in the outside population than what she would do if she were a nurse in a hospi jol. This extreme mortality, Dr. Comet chinks, anight be reduced by the rigorous 1 use of the spittoon. !, The following is Professor Tyndall's : ruminary of the German investigator : It is universally recognized that tubercu losis is caused by tubercle bacilli, which reach the lungs through the inhalation it air in which , the bacilli are diffused. ' .. rhey come almost exclusively from tho dried sputum of consumptive persons. Die moist sputum, as also the expired oreath of the consumptive patients, is, for this mode of infection, without dau ber. If we, can prevent the drying of ' ihe expectorated matter, we prevent in ,' die same degree the possibility of infec tion. It is not, 'however, sufficient to place a spittoon at the disposal of the patient. The strictest surveillance must be exercised by both physicians and. at tendants to enforce the proper use of the ipittoon, and to prevent tne reckless dis posal o infective phlegm. Spitting on die floor or into pocket handkerchiefs ia t she main source of peril. ;' To this must be added the soiling of . the bedclothes ind the wiping of the patient's mouth, rite handkerchiefs used for this purpose must , be handled with dare and boiled without delay. Various other sources of ianger, kissing among them, will occur to the , physician. A phthisical mother, iy kissing her healthy child, may seal ' .is doom. : .. ') , How Doep Doc tha KartU Quake. 'The Mississippi Valley has recently ex perienced an earthquake shock which for ' cverity has not been equaled for years, n incident which revives interest in the 4ery : How deep does : the earth quake" when nature shapes her crust like the cyclone does the circus tent ? At Virginia City, Nev., the great earth-' (uake of 1879 was not noticed by tho aimers in the deeper portions of the Comstock mines. The famous eartli- . quake at the same place in 1874, which ihook down chimneys, fire walls, etc., and Vracked every brick building in the city, was merely noticed by some of the m in tra working in the " upper levels, "but did them no damage, not even shaking Sown. loose rocks and earth. The station men in the various shafts felt it strong est, and the deepest point where it was ooliced was by the ninth station mnn,who was on watch at the 900 foot level, which of course, 900 feet below the surface. He said it felt like a faint throb or pulsa tion of air, as though a blast had . been . 5red above, below, or in some Indefinite lirection. In some of the Virginia City mines the shock was not felt ut all, not reu by station men in the shafts. Ut. Louis Iwepublic. 1 , Ilaitr Friendship. . Pome people are continually acquiring dear friends. " Ladies of au iniprewsi U' nature have been known to add two or ilii ee to their list during the visiting g.a io.'i. Meu are not, generally, speaking, an vX to rush into friendship as tlie moro tunable sex, yet many a man contracts T)ieu(lbliips in haste that he repents at t ' -ure. Tmu friends are itcarce acquis! They can not be picked up at the half :i d ; ' n a season at dinner s t hJ'i,- .'"vv. York L'.'oer. JEDUCATIOAAT. It costs the teachers of KanRas $200,000 a year to attend the normal institutes. There are 230 normal schools, with an ' attendance of 50,000. students, in tho United States, - ; The Kansas Agricultural College library .contains 11,000 volumes. For lack of . room about 2,000 volumes are practically inaccessible to tho students. In the past 13 years the number of stu- ; dents in Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational) has increased from 4a to 107 ; and the faculty from six to 14. j In America we have 12,000,000 children ! enrolled in tlie public shools alone. Our public schools require 47,292 teachers, 1 and cost annually $122,455,252 or did two years ago, There is a falling off in the number of young men entering tlie ministry of Eng land, and it is said in explanation that the intellectual movement in tlie uni- j versities is unfriendly to tlie clerical pro- ; fession. ' . Pennsylvania is to have a compulsory educational law, but difficulty will be ex ; perienced in putting it into full effect, for I in various parts of the State; especially in Philadelphia, schoolroom accommoda tions are lamentably deficient, j; Columbia College is the richest institu tion of the kind in existencee. Its landed estate includes about 20 acres of the best part of New York city, the value being now $10,000,000, with a prospect of doubling during the next decade. . Coeducation has been in force at tho Kansas University for 25 years, and there lias never been even a suspicion of scan dal among the students. As for hazing and other forms of college ruffianism, it ' ia absolutely unknown. Kansas City Star.. '"p;... . : . The Oxford University income amount ed to C5,000 last year, of which 30,000 came from fees and other internal services, degree fees alone coming to just 10,000. The "university draws about 16,000 from various external sources, 13,000 from trust funds. 6,000 from the colleges, and tlie profit from the Claren don press was 5,000. It speaks well for the administration of the university property that "agency and management" cost only 250. Professors take about 10,000, university officers 5,000, ex aminers 5,000, and readers 2,500. Hie Bodleian cost 7,5U ., the museum 4,300, the Taylor institution 2,000, and the bo j tanical gardens, 1,100, while 0,000 ! went in various internal expenses, and interest and sinking funds in loans ac counted for 5,500. The university, in , come does not now vary from year to 1 year, except in quite small amounts. I Tlie value of the kindergarten as a means of preparation to schools of mauual ; training has received interesting recog j ration in the recently announced, bequest : of the late Brooklyn philanthropist, Charles Pratt Among schools of in dustrial training the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn has long been renowned for its manual features, pursued in connection with the studies ordinarily carried on in schools. Its agricultural department, unique in city institutions, has been a peculiar characteristic, and this will be I strengthened by a bequest for large green houses and for flower gardens, to be cul tivated by institute students. Other j courses have an equally practical bearing. Recognizing that the principle which governs the institute is tlie application to the pupils of more advanced years of the idens on which the kindergarten u j based, the founder determined upon a logical development of his system and j left a bequest for the purchase and im , provement of the Frcebel Academy. The j kindergarten will be a ."feeder" to the ! institute, and will prepare pupils , by a i systematic course of study and manual training in tne f roBbeL CURIOSITIES OK THE NEWS. A hog recently killed in Perry, Ga., had three complete sets of lungs. Two Manitoba cattish have been caught, each with a child's hand in its stomach. An Englishman has invented an appa ratus through which, he declares, he can see the soul leave tlie body. A 40 year old peacock struts proudly on the farm of Adam Bohn, in Penn township, Berks county, Pa. A Newark museum manager adver tises a four armed man. This must bo the one that was forewarned. A fine pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., fam ily jumped for a rat, caught its neck rib bon on a nail, and strangled to death. . There is now a character known as "Jack the dude kicker, "who inhabits St, Louis. He assaulted a dozen fancifully dressed young men during a recent week. J , A cow at Petersburg, Va., while in . search of her calf, entered a house and ' climbed a flight of 16 stairs. Hearing her calf outside, she descended without trouble. . ' - - ; An oak log that was recently sawed ia nenry Maley's mill, near Franklin,' Ind. had a hollow in which 127 blacksnakes had nested. The largest is said to have measured 78 inches in length. ' An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minm, which spouts both oil and water, often changes the program, and "sends out a etream of small minnows,' which are wholly unlike any known species of fish found in that vicinity. " j. ;, , ' J ! ! The proportions-of the human figure are six times the length of the right foot ; the face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the end oMho chin is one-tenth of the whole tstature ; the hand, from the wrist to tho end of the middle finger, is also one- t tenth of the total height; from tlie crown to tlie nape of the neck is one-twelfth of , the stature. " k i The step recently taken by the crown princess of Greece of uniting with the Greek Church has received the sanction of the , Empress Frederick and Queen Victoria, the mother and grandmother of thi1 princess. They hold that she should b-loug to tin; church in tvluoh her chil lf i ii will be reared-. Mlack Hawk's tomahawk is in the po.?. Ft '.- -ion of a M'k-aliJio socktv at Lewistou, BCIEXTIFXC AND CSJtFUL. Doctors say a healthy adult should eat at leasflO ounces of mat each day. Pressing a finger on the upper lip will abort a sneeze if thought of in time. Metals are found to corrode much faster when in galvauio connection than other wise. , t- ! .. During one day tho human body gen orates enough heat to melt 40 pounds of ice and. raise it to boiling heat. Mr, Brosius, a Georgian, is said to have invented a ginning process which will not break the fiber of cotton. It turns out an unbroken, silky staple. s - Tlie art of paper making has reached that point where a growing tree can be cut down and converted into a newspa perall within 24 hours, ' , Accoi-ding to a professor of astronomy, the speed of tlie 6tars through space is 2S miles a second, while that of our sun ia about 25 miles a second. , ' ' The whole of the interior of Greenland is believed to be covered by an immense shield shaped cap of ice and snow, which in some places must have a thickness of 6,000 or 6,000 feet A German chemist has succeeded in producing artificial silk, which has all the qualities of the natural article except strength, wherein "it is deficient, being only two-thirds as strong. Watercress is said to contain very nan itary qualities. A curious characteristic of it is that if grown in a ferruginous stream it absorbs five times tlie amount of iron that any other plant does. Flies have long been accused not without reason of spreading disease ; but it is asserted now from Ilavaua that mosquitoes have a use, for if they inocu late any one after biting a yellow fevez 'patient the disease which follows is so mild that fatal results are rare. English Mechanic. A firm of stonecutters in Berlin have introduced a pneumatic chisel into theix establishment. Tlie workman holds tlie, syringe like apparatus with both hands, and, os he slides it over tlie surface of the stone or metal, the chisel, making 10,000 or 12,000 revolutions a minute, chips oil particles. The horse power going to waste at Niagara Falls is estimated at an aggre gate of 16,000,000 units. , All the locomo tives and steamships in the world have only one-quarter of that sum of horse power. The time may oome when th waste force at Niagara will be harnessed and put to use. It should at least be made to carry backward and forward tho interrupted commerce of the Lakes, to which it now interposes an impatuabh) barrier.'' -' , v WIT . AID WISDOM. - . The born liar can't help it. It is a poor mule that won't work both ways. Never let a woman know she is not pretty. v '. ' ' Light a cigarette and sco the under taker smile. i Bweot and bitter- ' A girl is eweet. but oh! how bitter The same sirl ia when her dresa don't fit her.- .. TJowever great some men's abilities ere, their liabilities are always greater. Honesty is the best policy, because it is tlie only policy which insures against loss of character, v . A PitfalL She Love is blind, you -now. He No ; it's tho lover that's why he falls into it. : "Men propose too suddenly, don't you thiuk?" "Yes, and not of ten enough. 1 Life would bo really worth living if it wasn t for the men." Life. GrasH widows have been from the first And still are often seen. But it always should be understood . - Such grass is seldom feroen. v .. Philadelphia Times. A man should grapple to his friend with hooks of steel. He need have no fear of losing his enemies. New Orleans Picayune. The trouble with the young is that they won't do aa the old folks advise, but as they have done. Atchison Globe., Some men think that indorsing the good deeds of other people is about the same thing as performing them them selves. Somerville Journal. i The man who can do an honest day's . work when the circus is in town never has to wear his shoes out in looking foi employment Ram's Horn. It doeBnt pay to do much talking when you'ro . mad enough to choke; Because the word that stings the deojvestla the word that's never spoke; Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm to ' blown away, Then he'll do a heap of thinking 'bout tlx things you didn't say. , Farm and Fireside. ! The man who complains that tho world does not appreciate him should cot lose heart. If every one were justly appreciated by the world very few of us would be riding in our carriages. New York Recorder. " ; ' . . Wise Forethought. 'Millie I don't mind marrying you, Clarence, but I hate the idea of giving up my $15 a week job at the store. Clarence Then don't give it up, dearest. I'll give up mine, I'm ' getting only $10. ' lip Twinkling. By a new electrical device in use across the water, the stubbornest and most sensi- tive teeth are extracted in a twinkling, and with absolutely,no pain to the pa tient. The victim grasps the handle at tached to one wire leading from the bat tery, and a pair of forceps is attached to the other wire. .When the forceps touch the tooth a circuit is formed. Tlie jaw being much more sensitive, to a shock than tlie hand, the gums are so numbed by the electricity that the tooth can be pulled without the patient suffering a . particle. ' , In order that no person receives ' a shock too great for his system he tests the current himself before the forceps are ' applied to his molars. Experiments made j in the Philadelphia College of Dentistry I prove, beyond doubt, that with the aid of an electric current even nerves can be vcmoved from decaying teeth without causing pain. The method, as explained, ii fci;npli. GHAUTS OF GOLD. .' Nothing is troublesomo that wo do will Ingly. ' . A bold onset is half the battle. Gari baldi. ' Human knowledge is the parent of doubt -; . " - The faults of others are no excuse for our own. v . . - ' Quiet poverty is better than unjust wealth. , ', ' Better a little chiding than a great deal Of heartbreak. Malice drinketh up the greatest part of its own poison. ' It is not allowable for the impure to at tain to the pure. Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. The virtues are lost in self interest, u rivers are lost in the sea. Rochefoucald. "It Is the little rift within the late, That by and by will make music mote. And, ever widening, slowly slleuoe all. " We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own. Life is always interesting when you have a purpose and live to its fulfillment Boaconsfleld. Wisdom prepares for the worst; but folly leaves the worst for tlie day when it comes. Cecil, Do not flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimate. ' It is an excess of devotion that would have divinity all in all, whereas it should be only above alL . The man who says, "Let me have no troubles," might as well say, "Let mo have no joys. " The Ram's Horn. Vice has more martyrs than virtue, end it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. Carlos Martyn. - , - . ' - . Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith. Ruskin. . Believe and trust, through stars and suns. Through life and death; through soul and : sense , . His wise, fraternal purpose runs; : The darkness of His providence v ; Is starlit with benign intents. ' John O. WLltticr. Society (says a writer in one of tho monthlies) never wants anybody who does not want it It is founded on tho principle of giving and receiving in re turn. If you show that you like people, they will show that they like you. Daily wickedness is wrought; . Tyranny is swoll'n with pride. Bigotry ia deified; Error intertwined with thought Vice and misery ramp and crawl. . Root them out, their day has passed; Goodness is alone immortal; Evil was not made to last. . , Charles Mackay, . RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. A branch of tlie Jewish Publication So ciety exists in nearly every city in tho Union except New York. The women of the Baptist churches ir this country have contributed for foreign missions during the past year the sum of $102,629.02. Rev. Dr. Strong, of the Evangelical Al liance, is working up a movement for a united Christian exhibit at the Colum bian Exhibition. Their building will cost $250,000. v Six denominations are now operating missions in Alaska Presbyterians, Meth odists, Friends, Moravian, Episcopal, and Swedish. There are a total of 18 Protest ant mission stations. The increase in population within tho old city limits bf Chicago from I860 to 1890 was 117 per cent; The increase in church membership among the English Bpeaking people, in tlie Methodist Epis copal Church, for tlie same period, was 121 per cent, and the increase in the cumber of churches was 153 per cent In the past five years $1,000,000 has be?n spent by the same denomination in building new churches. ' . The oldest woman preacher in this country is the Rev.' Lydia Sexton, who was born in New Jersey in 1790, and who still preaches in various parts of the West -She predicts that she will live until .1900, tt,t.0;xteuding her life into tnree centU"1 The refusal Dr. Gailor to accept the office of BLmol of Georgia will be re ceived with fetflings of regret. He is young and energetic and possesses ability ' far above tlie average. It was expected that he would do a great deal toward buildings up the Episcopal Church ia this State. In the missionary field, par ticularly, it was thought that he would be a power. He feels, however, that his duty requires him to remain with the University of the South. Savannah News. ' ' President Andrews, of Brown Univer sity, recently delivered an address on the "Ethics of Good Citizenship," in which he took occasion to condemn the asser tion so often made by bigots that Cathol ics can not be true to their church and their country at the same time. Among other things, he said:' "Whenever th interests of the United States are at stake the Catholics of this country will rise up as one man to defend our rights. There will never come from the Vatican a measure calculated to injure this coun try." The pope has written a letter announc ing the rec8tablishment of the donation for the astronomical observatory at the Vatican. He declares that h is solicit ous ior uie progress or science, ami places tlie observatory in the same ranli with other papal institutions. Protectant missions are making prog ress in Spain. There are 115 houses or rooms used for chapels or schools, and 23 male and 23 female foreign missionaries employed in the work. There are 87 Spanish pastors and 89 evangelists. The attendants on public worship number 0,220 and the communicants 3,518, There are 119 day schools, with 4,800 pupils. ;-" " "- . An Italian nobleman, the Count d Lorgues, is owner of an ancient wood n Craving of Christopher Columbus, which is believed to be a true likenc-s. .It will probably Lave a place in tbj comiz-Z American exposition, I PRETTIEST LOT OP JEVIEim SEEK Is now being displayed at T. OAIjSTARpHEN Stock of FasMoaiaMe MfiDlflsaery is 5 c: Tlie moott faoiMeotmo can h &tjvvu:x. OAESTAPePHEII 3L0tIZr?f ?"T DRESS 600 IN aoPEa W. BLOlMf'S. J - & BLDUNT'-a
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