Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-04-30
The Marriage OF an Egyptian Princess
From the Pail Mall IA zattn

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The Marriage Of an Egyptian Princess
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The fetes given by the Viceroy of
Egypt ON the occasion of the marriage
Iof his daughter, the Princess Zeineb
Hanoum, with Ibrahim Pasha, were of
the most brilliant description. The
fetes commenced on Sunday, February
III, when the Princess was conducted
from the palace of the Viceroy to that
OF her grandmother, his mother. Her
departure was announced by salutes of
artillery, and for three days following
the festivities were carried Oh. Them
vitations to the fetes were in accord
ance with the rank of each guest. The
members of the priesthood received a
special mark of honor by being invited
on the first day. The next day was de-
voted to the entertainment of the Con-
suls~ General and of the higher func-
tionaries of the State, civil and mill
tary. Thirdly and lastly came the re.
ligious heads of the Christian commu.
mites and the Vice Consuls, the Gov.
ernors of Cairo and Alexandra, and the
Iprincipal bankers and merchants ol
those cities. After the banquet was q
magnificent display :of fireworks, and
on the same evening q ceremony of a
different character took place in the
departments of the harenatik, where q
number of European ladies and other
notabilities were received by the daugh-
ters of the Viceroy.
The Princess, however, remained in a
|private room with the Princess mother
and aunt of the Khedive until after din
ner, when she received her lady guests
in another apartment, where were dis
played the costly marriage presents sent
by the Sultan. The room was profuse-
~ and richly decorated, q carpet of the
rarest furs covered the floor, and the
walls and ceiling were hung with fab
RIGS of inestimable value. Elevated in
the middle of the room were three
thrones covered with gold embroidery.
On one of these the Princess, resplend-
ent with jewels, took seat, her mother
and grandaunt seating themselves, the
one on her right hand and the other on
the left. To them now advanced their
hlghnesses, the maternal grandmother
OF the Princess, the mother of Prince
1brahim Pasha, and the wives of the
Khedive; as they entered the room they
opened bags, from which, in conform
ity with an ancient custom, they took
handfuls of gold, which they flung on
the heads of the festive assemblage.
On the following day, Thursday, the
bride was conducted with great pomp
to the palace of her distinguished hus-
band. In the van of the marriage cor
tege capered the Prefect of Police on an
Arab charger, richly caparisoned, &C.
companied by a brilliant e,atourage of
officers. Following these marched de-
tachments of cavalry and foot soldiers.
Then came the u1emas and imams,
chanting invocations for the happiness
of the princely couple. The equipages
of the ladies belonging to the house
hold of the Khedive and of Prince Ibra-
ham, brought up the rear, followed
and fanked by body of cavasses. The
carriage which contained the Princess
Zeineb was drawn by six horses. The
streets were lined with troops, the forts
thundered out their salutes, and vast
multitudes thronged to witness the
procession.
Aerial 41cr0scOpy.
A British microscopist has recently
published the results of extensive ex-
periments in this novel but intensely
interesting domain of science. The
microscopic examination of air, it has
long been promised, would afford many
clues to the origin of the great epidem-
les. and also solve many interesting
points of medical and agricultural eli
matology. Agreatphysician has shown
that we take into our lungs daily from
l 900 to 1900 gallons of air. The de-
lection of impurities in the air, and the
discovery Of their sanitary effect is of
the utmost practical moment.
In the experiments of Mr.. Douglas
Cunningham, now referred to, thespec-
linens of air were taken in the tropical
atmosphere near Calcutta, in thin brass
tubes. Among the chief conclusions
reached we find that infusorial animal
cules, their germ and ova, are almost
entirely absent from atmospheric dust.
No connection could be traced between
the number of germs found present in
the air and the prevalence of cholera,
dysentery, diarrhea, ague, and other
diseases. Although this latter conclu-
sion seems to discourage the hope of
connecting the origin of disease wit h |
atmospheric germs and apparently up |
sets Professor Tyndallb famous theory !
of the relation between "dust and dis |
ease,:' the experiments were not ex-
haustive, and refer only to @rial parti-
cles distinguishable while in the air.
Countless finer molecules, perhaps
peopled with living beings, may and
doubtless will be found present in the
air. That the air is itself heavily
freighted with infusorial life, capable
of affecting the human system, as we
know it often fatally affects vegetation.
has long since been establBhed. In 1868
Pasteur, the eminent French microsco-
pist, investigated the diseased silk
worms, upon whose health and labors
the prosperity of the empire largely de-
pended. Althoughthe microscope could
not detect the plague corpuscles in the
fertile egg of the silk worm, and the
scientist was at first bafaed, he soon
conjectured that the worm and it's in
fusorial parasite grew together, and the
tests confirmed his conjecture. At q
later stage of the development he was
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eased worms, and, under the lens, easi-
ly found the enlarged plague corpus
cles. It is we'll known that in wounds
where the blood is mixed with air that
has passed through the lungs there is
less danger of putrefaction, since the air
has thus been filtered. It is obvious
that the deposition of organic matter
and infusoria in the respiratory organs
must be great source of disease, es-
pecially pulmonary, and in this re-
search has an immense practical sig
nifcance. The discovery of MI. Doug
las Cunningham, that these swarms Of
atmospheric infusoria do not make the
dust particles they habitant so much,
as that they live independently of them,
is of especial interest to thedenizens of
our large and dusty cities. It may be
hasty to assume that the animacular
life examined by Pasteur was derived
from the air, and that it may not have
been extinct in vegetable surfaces with
which the silk worm had been inocula-
ted by contact. But, at any rate, the
atmosphere is the medium Of transit for
these organisms, and the microscopic