Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-06-21


From the American Aericuitsrist
The "aeuc plant has recently been dis
covered--rot the plant that cures tho seue.
but tho one that causes H. Here Is one
plant. At least. that we can notice without |
being overwhelmed with applications for |
seed. To be sure it is q little thing. and
takes q good eye. aided byr microscope. TO |
find it,hut when found it cannot be said at
il no g-ca. shakes" for IL ls .thc ''gcuuipe
Shaker Seeding" itself. Dr.. l. II. Sails.
bury, Of Cleveland, Ohio. announces,iu TIE
Ansericaa journal Of Medical Science, ;ha.
fever and ague il caused by minute plant,
which 10 found where the sfaguant water
has just dried awsy The spores or rcpros
duc;iye dust ofthis microscopic plant, arc
diflused through the night damps, and be>
ing taken iatO tbe system by breathing, are
the cause Of that scourge, the asus. The
habits oi the 0ihute plants completely ac>
cord with what was before known OF the 90
currenee Of miasma, and that they ere the
real cause Of il has been shown BY taking
boxes Of earth containing them 10 places
where IN aguc WAS never known to occur.
10 shout two weeks after the ague plant
WAS taken there, well mirked cases OF the
disease appeared. This discovery does not
o. yet incxease our knowledge Of the means
Of Riding ourselves Of the plant, but il will
probably lead TO that-just IS one, If he
could only find out ''how ho got such .
odd" 10 already half.cursd. The spores
only rise in the night, and then to hight
varying with the locality, Of from thirty TO
Que hundred feet. This explains why night
air brings on ague, and why elevated local>
itics are Tree from it. After the ague seed
IL taken into the system, the pla I is prop
agated there, and the patient becomes sort
OF animated aot bed.
The Last Eruption Of M. Eena.
Mr.. Foote, who visited Sicily at the
time Of the last eruption Of Mt. Etna, has
published an interesting paper on the sub
ject in the Rerue Cotempordine. He says:
During our journey around Sicily the
appearance Of the eruption bad been con-
sidcrably modified. The lava, which seem
cd nearly stopped at the moment Of our de
parturc, had suddenly acquired new inten-
sity about the middle Of March. In the
course Of two days an enormous stream Of
lava had traversed the interval comprised
between the Due Mont and Mt. Crisimo,
and then passing westward Of that emin>
cncc had dashed into deep ravinc in tho
direction ofLingua Grossa. Ifit had con,
tinued for few hours longer the fiery tor>
rent would have naturally got into the
midst Of vineyards and houses by merely
following the sloping Of the soil. Tcrror
was At its hight among the people threat
eucd with the catastrophe. They, being
grossly ignorant and superstitious, imagin
cd that st. lgnatius, the patron Of Ped
monte, had turned the scourgc upon Linz
qua CROSSE in order to save the commune
Of which he was protector. The measure
Of sxpelling his image from the chapel Del
10 Nena was being ssriously dicussed. Had
II been carried out II would inevitably have
led to = bloody collision between the in>
hatitants Of those two places but fortu>
natcly the fiery torrent suddenly stopped.
"Othcr streams were subsequently, form
ed higher up, and during our second stay
ns Mount Etna the lava invaded the whole
space that had hitherto been spared be-
tween Mt. Frumento and Due Mont, leavss
ing only hero and there few hillocks still
covered with vegetation, like islands in =
waste. The scruptions Of lava, either in
solid or liquid form, gradually abated. Thus
while at the outset stones elected from the
lower crater rosc into the air to the hight Of
eighteen hundred metres, that is, about 40
times The altitude Of the column Of the
Place Vendome, toward the end they hard>
hardly reach the brim Of the crater 30 that
about the middle Of May, could stand on
its highest crest and make trigonometrical
surveys"
AN ExGLIsn MAJOR. late London lets
ter contains the following about Ecarl Cross
venor, an English nabob, and at present .
prominent character in Parliament.
He is very mild young gentleman, with
just about brains enough to put up his UNI
brclla when it rains. But what he lacks Ia
brains he makes up in cash. lie the heir
Of the great estate Of the Marquis Of West
minister an estate from which the annual
income is one million and half Of dollars.
Every day that passes over this mans head,
| whether he lies abed or gets up, brings TO
him its regular return Of over -four thousand
dollafS. The way tho family acquired this
fabulous wealth was as follows: The grand
father ofthc present marquis was poor
lore" owning a quantity Of low, marshy
l md in Westminster.
With the growth Of London that land,
hitherto unpi luctive, began to assume Al
immense value, when . master builder
named Cubitt, who had worked his way up
from poverty, leased the land. turned It in>
to city lots, built that mani6ccnt portion Of
London known as Pimlico and Belgravis.
acquired large fortune for himself, and
loaded down the marquis with wealth. In
a few years, at the expiration Of Cubitt's
lease, all these magnificent houses, city Of
palaces, will become the property of the
marquis; and the present enormous wealth
Of the Grosvenor family viii be increased