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Ravages OF tho Trichina Disease-Eighty
Deaths Out OF Three Hundred and
Twenty Cases-The Expulsion OF Wag-
NOR from Munich-German Opinions OF
President Johnson's AIessago.-Attempted
Reconciliation Between Dismark and
the Legislature, sc.
OUR BERLIN CORRESPONDENCE.
BERLIN, Dec. 90, 1905.
The good people Of Berlin are not very excitable
race they take things cooly, submit with philosophical
resignation to what cannot be helped, and only
grumbe little now and then when their powers of
durance too severely tasked but the present mo-
men they really in state Of considerable agitation
Is political agitation the question that is discuss
cd in public meetings and private circles In newspapers
and placards Is neither the annexation OF Scheswg Ho
stein, the partition Of Belgium nor the approaching
caacysm of the Mexican empire the exploits Of the
British Haynaus and Mouraviefs in Jamaica-it Is
TIE oREAr rRIcHINA QUESTION.
Perhaps many OF your readers may not know what
trichin@ arc although they arc by no means recent
discovery The fyichina spirals is small micro.
scopc worm or anlmacue, which was first observed
by tho distinguished anatomist Richard Owen, In
1896 and is found in the muscles and ut,stines OF
various animals especially pigs and rabbits, In such
enormous quantities that single ounce OF pork is said
to contain occasionally as many as ono hundred thou
sand Of these parasites. By partaking Of the meat in
footed with them they are tranferred to the human
body, causing intense suffering which, ia many In
stances is followed by painful death. The nrs symp-
toms Of trichnitis noticed some yean since in
Dresden, but no particular attention paid to IL till
the summer before last whom number Of occur
red both here and In other parts Of Germany which led
10 medical Investigation Of this novel form Of disease
Az usual the doctors Of different opinions; some
Of them declared thai II was nothing else than what
generally called mcasly pork, which had been known
for agss has besn thought particularly danger
ous and although many people refraned from eating Of
the unciean animal especially In the shape ol such Ger
man delicaciss raw han and smoked salsAges, the
whole ssir was beginning 70 pas oss q qs1lDy. The
PORK butehen brssshed ftssay. und lusphooia
was almost laughed out OF countenanc6 wAen'a few
weeks ago suddenly revived By The announcement
that d Hedersebcn small place 10 Pfussian saxony
the mysterious disease had broken cat with great viru
Ience and spreading the adjoining villages its
origin being distinctly traceabls 70 trchinsrous hog
which had been killed By the butcher Of the place and
parceled out among the Inhabitants.
HORRIBLE aAvA0e OF rm DrsAsa
Day by day the accounts grew moro alarming, whole
families stated 10 have died on In excrucating
agony and by the last bulletins the number Of
tusy amounted TO over three hundred and twenty Of
which eighty had already proved fatal I+s impossible
70 describe the CONSERVATION excited by the intelligence;
since the ns sppartion Of the cholera nothing like Is
recollec,ed by the oldest inhabitant
PORK DISCOUNT.
general strike took place in the pork eating iine In
vain every butcher protested that his meat ct least
sound and unaffected by the formidable nfusora the
public turned from II with disgust; ham and sausages
were tabooed, and roast pig itself was only ventured
upon by few bold spirits Notwithstanding the most
practical trchnologists admitted that thorough good
roasting . process which oven . tric6@ns could
hardly stand In the meantime physcians crowded 70
gate the symptoms Of The disorder and communicate
the result OF their observations 10 the newspapers the
poorer classes Of the population who besdes potatoes
and rye bread live chiefly pork, either fresh or
salted were In the worst dilemma Of ALL having the al
formative Of going without meat altogether OF eating
food which they knew suspected 10 b. unwholesome.
aud which the first medical authorities affirmed 10 be
dangerous 70 health and 10 life ITSELF
PRECAUTIONARY nRAsrRH
II proposed therefore, that every butcher should
be ordered undcr severe pains and penalties have the
animals slaughtered BY him submitted 10 microscopic
examination, and Friday last great public meeting
took place in which the question debated and both
pro and anttrichinist the latter consisting principally
OF pork butchers and their retaines were assembled 10
great force
TAXING NAN WORD.
veterinary surgeon by the name OF Urban, man
who acquired unenvable notorety In the revolution
OF ist conended soa.y that there were no such things
him; whereupon his antagonists produced slice Of
black pudding made they said OF trichiniferous pork,
turned pale and seemed inclined 10 back out but
upon his metle by the laughter Of the meeting, he sud
then rushed from the ha-il natured persons asserto
apothecary's shop where good dose OF ipecac
lieved him from the possible effects Of his rash enter
prise
DECIDING 70 DO SOMETHING.
The meeting broke up, Is usual with such meetings,
but no action has been taken as yet BY the city suhor
ties The butchers, however finding the tide OF opinion
running against them have e, given way 50 far . 70 have
bill posted up with The Information tina, the
snalyzed BY Doctor such.soss and found 'free from
trchine." II remains 10 DO whether this will suf
onen attach much weight 70 such isssimoniss In Bcr
lin there have not been many cases OF the disease about
thirty in all Of which thirteen have ended fatally and
alleged that OF thousand hogs slaughtered here not
than has been found infected with rchne but
Of course this does not prevent people from being fright
pccts to draw prize every afraid that IL he
eats pork may just happen 70 be part OF that partcu
the single unlucky exception among his myriads Of
healthy brethren.
PALACE Rrvoturox IN MUNICH
while the capital OF Prussia being agitsted by this
sanitary question, domestic events OF rather different
though equally curious description have trAnsprsd the
has always been he classic soil ~ psisce revolutions We
oil recoect Lola Nontes hes royal lnamorsia who
sacrificed his 10 his penchant for brsxen faced
and not very handsome Hberno Spanish dancer HIS
grandson, the present King Of Bavaria young man q
twenty, has inherited his grssdfsthes love o. the nss
arts and enthusiastic admrer Of the famous "Mus-
can OF the Future" Richard Wagner whom be sent for
bis accession 70 the throne about ysar ago. rave
him suit OF apartments his own palace and mad> hs
chief adviser, not only In matters OF art but Of polcs
Now Richard Wagner, besides being siever composer
an ardent dcmocrat-took leading part 10 the Saxon
revolution and fought IN the baoAdes q Dresden in
io for which be vss eonesmned 20 death IN eesmaoN
by the tribunals q bic native Kingdom. me con-
ing sseh chArssss In favor 9Th their Kise and forth
wh commsnced series Of eachInallons of eslsing rid
This dangerous tntrudss. fhs Bavarinne have tlvs
rssiy shown decided ardpAhy 10 'forslGnsn - thsy