Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-28

1 with no charity.
 There Is altogether too much kissing in this
 world, though the young folks and some oth- CTS may not think so A distressing illustra- tion of this truth is recorded as having re-
 gently occurred in Pennsylvania town. A woman kissed her father, who died of erysip- elas, and having sore on her lip was inocu-
 lated with the virus of the disease. The daughter was brought down with blood-pois-
 oning, and after suffering great agony for several days died. This was very sad, but something still more sad remains to be told. A little daughter of the unfortunate lady was permitted to kiss her mother during the
 height of the disease, and at latest accounts was lying at the point of death. It is not a pleasant duty to criticise such mani festations of affection and sorrow
 as these kisses were, but it is a
 duty. Every physician is aware that great deal of disease and death is very often in volved in kissing sick persons, especially such as have virulent forms of disease. Many dis eases, and notably scarlet fever, diphtheria 1 and other throat diseases, are communicated 1I1O pIOpdSdGcu OJ CdTS10SS h1oS4AB. ! io- miscuous kissing of sick persons and the dead is too dangerous to be encouraged, or even permitted if it can be prevented
 Colonel Waring's system of drainage, which he has applied in Memphis, is different from the systems in common use, and apparently
 better. Rain water is not admitted to the sewer pipes, but only closet and kitchen
 waste water, the latter finding it's way by a. slop stone basin. Drain tiles are also laid,
 besides the sewer pipe, to cleanse the earth from its impurities and prevent the soil satu
 ration that often poisons well water in cities and towns. The system has proved satis- factory at Memphis thus far that a company has been incorporated at New Orleans with a capital of $1, 800, ,OOO to try it's benefits in the Crescent city. Colonel Waring's plan at New Orleans is to discharge the flow from the pipes into two wells in the lowest part of the city, from which the contents to be pumped into the Mississippi river. The shall low depth at which Colonel Waring's pipes are laid makes them peculiarly adapted to Louisiana, where the water is generally too near the surface to admit of digging cellars, and by moderate charge for the use of their pipes, not more than is now paid for cleaning vaults the company just formed at New Or leans hope to improve the citYs sanitary con- dition, which the city debt flinders it from doing on its own hook, besides making profitable return on their investment.
 Kings and prophets have died without the sight of the completed National Washington Monument, and it is not unlikely that more kings and prophets, and also great many common people, will die before it is done. Still, the prospect that it will be finished is now better than it has been Colonel Thomas L. Casey, who has charge of the work, expects to begin this week to re- move three courses of the stone laid some years ago, which has now become clipped by exposure, and replace them with new layers. He will then continue the shaft to the con- templated height. Colonel Casey has on hand about twelve thousand cubic feet of marble and granite and about one hundred stones contributed by lodges and private par ties throughout the Union. He has adver- tised for 10000 cubic feet of marble and the same amount of granite, which will be placed in position with the greatest rapidity. It was intended to arrange the work on the monument so that the resuming of the laying of the blocks would begin July 4, when grand celebration was to be held; but owing to the amount of work required in removing the three defect i've courses this project had to be abandoned. The stroke of engineering performed by Colonel Casey in strengthening the founda- ton of the monument and bringing the struc- ture back to it's proper position is regarded by engineer officers as extraordinary, and at the time he undertook the work it was claimed that instead of improving the foundations strength he would do it greater injury He has placed beneath the shaft foundation sufficient to bear double the amount of weight it will be required to sustain