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COREA.
Her foreign Intercourse Brief but
sanguinary Annals.

Her foreign Intercourse Brief but
sanguinary Annals.
The history of European intercourse
with the inhabitants of the little PENN
sula in northeastern China is brief and
melancholy. The touching story of
the crew of the Dutch vessel wrecked
on the island of Quelpaert in the mid
die of the seventeenth century, who
were detained among the Coreans for
more than thirty years, as told by their
Secretary" will be found in the pages
of Pinkerton, and need not be further
referred to here. 1t was not until the
treaty of Tien-tsin had opened north
China and Manchuria to the zeal of
Roman Catholic missionaries that
Corea was again visited by Europeans.
The Jesuit fathers seem TO have made
their way there about 1923. We have
now only their own account of what
took place. Their efforts to make con-
verts were, they say, crowned with sue
cess for few years; but in 1865 COM
menced a persecution unparalleled
even in the fr1ghtful annals of religious
persecution in the east. 1t is said that
150, 600 Coreans, men, women and chill
dren, lost their lives on that occasion.
OF the French priests, four alone es-
capped in disguise, assisted by some of
the faithful of their flock. An at
tempt was made by the French fleet
in the China seas to take vengeance for
this slaughter, but ii was unsuccessful.
Until the history of modern Corea is
studied by our scholars in the native
works themselves we can not correctly
ascertain the cause of this persecution.
Meanwhile, the student of the history
of other Oriental nations who finds
analogous events will probably look
for analogous causes. The subsequent
attempts of the Jesuits to cross the
Corean frontier, and the success that
attended them, will be found recorded
in the annals or the EMISSION Etrang-
ers." Mgr. Ridel, who evaded the
frontier guards and entered the country
in 1873, has left us an account of his
adventures. He penetrated Corea, he
tells us, in the hope of attaining the
crown of martydrom. In this he was
disappointed, for he was promptly dis
covered and imprisoned, to be releas
ed in a few months afterward at the
intercession of the governments o.
China and Japan. An American naval
expedition sent to punish an outrage
on ship which sailed up one of the
Corean rivers met with little more
success than its French predecessor
In 1868 steamer, manned ny Ameri
can and European filbusters, set ou
for Shanghai to rob the tombs of the
Corean kings, either for the sake of ths
gold collins in which Mendez Pintor
says they were enclosed, or because
the Jesuits reported that the body of &
dead king could be held for almost any
ransom. In 1860 Ignatleff, then Rus
sian representative at Pekin, taking ad
vantage of the Chinese difhcultie'
with England and France, obtained tn,
cession of vast tract of Corean terri
tory lying in the Amour region.
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The General Managers Decision,

A man VINO had been given the pos
ition of landlord of new railroad eat
ing house in depot that was just COM
pleted out west, came into his head
quarters to see the general manager of
the road about opening the new depot
and hotel with grand ball. He said
the citizens would be pleased to have
ball, and that it would cement a
friendship towards the road that
would be valuable. 81 can get up
a banquet, you know" says the hotel
man. stop tight there" says the gen.
ersl manager. Not any banquet.
Twenty years sgo last fall we open
ed new railroad hotel, with ball,
and had a banquet. Since then we
have had thirteen different landlords
in that house, and last week / was
there, and hope to ride bicycle if |
didn't find plate of doughnuts and a
sandwich on the counter that made
their appearance at that banquet.
No. sir; open the hotel with prayer, or
a can-opener, or jimmy, but no BAN
quet."
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LIABI ITY OF CONTRACTION.
How Long Patients should BE Is0-
lated and what Precautions hOuid
TaIxan

How Long Patients should BE IsO.
lated and what Precautions hOuid
BE Taken.
M. Hillairet, in the name of com
mission composed of NM. III. Roger
Bergeron, and Hillairet, read before
the Academic de Medicine report
in reply to the inquiry addressed tc
the academy by the minister of public
instruction, as to how long a pupil
affected with contagious disease
should be kept away from school.
The report considered the following
diseases: Varicella, variola, scsrlatina,
rubeola, mumps and diphtheria, and
the conclusions are as folio US:
Varicella, whose progress is often
irregular, may require ten to twelve
days for the fall of the crusts. The
isolation should be about twenty-five
days.
Variola has a prodomic period OF
three to four days, four or FIVE days OF
eruption, three or four days Of suppur-
alton, des -ication requires three days,
fall of the crusts six days. Then comes
a period of furfuraceous desquamation
without definite limit. Isolation should
not be less than forty days.
In scarlatina the period of invasion
occupies from six to forty. eight hours,
or exceptionally three days; the erup-
ton is completed in from five to eight
days; desquamation commences on
the fourteenth or fifteenth day and
lasts from fifteen to twenty-six days.
Isolation should last fsrty days.
Rubeola has prodromic period of
three or four days; exceptionally, from
six to eight or even twelve days; tine
eruption is completed in twelve or
forty eight hours, then it declines for
twenty-four hours; desc uamation lasts
from eight TO fifteen Gays. Isolation
for forty days will be sufficient.
Mumps, as rule, mas duration in
ordinary cases of six days. Con-
valescence lasts from six to seven days.
If any complication Of metastasis oc
ours it lasts usually about nine days.
Isolation or twenty-five days is suffi-
Gent.
The duration of diphtheria is very
variable, but isolation should be main
tanned for at least forty days.
The commission consequently pro
poses the adoption of the following
measures:
/. Pupils affected with chicken-pox,
smallpox, scarlet fever, measles,
mumps, or diphtheria should be strictly
isolated from their comrades.
2. For small pox, scarlet fever, mea-
seles. and diphtheria isolation should
not be shorter than forty days; for
chicken-pox ard mumps twenty-five
days is enough.
8. Isolation should last until after the
patient mas been bathed.
4. The clothing worn by the patient
at the time he was taken sick should
be subjected to a temperature of 90
degrees G. (194 degrees Fair and to
sulphur vapor and then well secured.
5. The bedding, curtains, and fur
niture of the sick room should be
thoroughly disinfected, washed and
aired.
6. The pupil of school after recov-
cry from one of the above contagious
diseases, should not be readmitted to
the schools unless furnished with. the
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GENERAL NOTES.

Two young girls rode twenty-mile
race at the Minneapolis fair, making the
distance in forty-one minutes.
The Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Western
road has extended its tracks from Broc-
ton TO Buffalo, and will soon commence
running through trains.
A vEIN of coal three feet thick has been
struck at NATION, H., at depth of 904
feet The shaft has cost 100000.
IT has transpired that Mayor Harrison
was last month married in London TO Miss
Margaret E. Stearns, of Chicago.
THE Mormons have decided to have
three bishops sit with the precinct regis
trars at Salt Lake and oversee the work of
listing voters.
THE Elatheads have agreed with gov
eminent commission to give the right OF
way through their reservation in western
Montana to the Northern Pacific road for
$4,000.
A BAND of four hundred Cheyennes is
encamped in the region of Las Animas,
COL, and will cross the Arkansas river at
Granada. These Indians are on the way
to Pine Ridge agency, without provisions,
but are very orderly.
In the Fifth Missouri congressional
| district the greenback convention tacitly
lndorsed colonel L. crisp, the lndepend-
ent democratic candidate, by refusing to
| make nomination.
Miss FRENGEL residing in North 81.
Louis. has taken no solid food for three
months, and her stomach viii not retain
| liquids. She moves about all day, dis
| charging light household duties.
THE workingmen of New York, to the
number of nearly twenty thousand, march
ed up Broadway Sept. s to Union Square,
where they passed in review before John
| Swinton and others, and then proceeded
to Elm Park for a picnic.
john KANE. prominent among the
| Pittsburgh strikers, states that almost a
majority of the delegates to the district
meeting of the Amalgamated association
| will vote for a compromise on the basis oil
1915 for pudding. If it be decided ia
continue the strike $50 men will break
from the ranks OF the organization.
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A Yucatan Industry.

A correspondent of The Te1iie Record
calls attention to an industry at Yucca
tan, which is rapidly assuming great
importance. Yucatan, though one of
the largest of Mexican states, is one Of
the poorest divisions of the republic
Silver and geld has it none. Sugar
cane is a perennial growth there. But
nothing is done with it, and the crops
of grain are insufficient to answer the
home demand. In 1880 the poeula-
ton was estimated at 800, 900, and the
landed property available for taxation
was rated at less than 100000. The
industry which absorbs the attention
of the people is the growth of henequin,
a species of hemp, for which there is
an active demand in the United States.
No especial skill is required of the far
mer, and the work of drying and pack
ing is very simple. 1t is calculated
that the hemp costs the planter, baled
less than three-quarters of cent per
pound. Add as much more for freight
and other charges to New York, and
deduct the total from the selling price
at the port of importation, s to z cents,
and it is not surprising to learn that
everything else is neglected at Yucca
tan for henequin. The successful re-
suits of the business have, it is reported.
brought about wonderful changes in
the people and the country. The for
mer are more thrifty and enterprising
than before railways have been pro-
jected, and the city of Merida, now
numbering 55, 600 inhabitants, and the
seaport of Progreso, with five or six
thousand inhabitants, have grown fast
and strong since a start has been made
by the henequin cultivation. The his
tory of the industry again proves that
more enduring wealth may be
gathered from the surface of the earth
than can be amassed by burrowing in
its depths.
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Humor in the House of Lords.

Lord scarborough asked her Maj
estys government whether it was their
present opinion that the Suez cana
was not within the purview of the con-
ference now being held at Constantine
pie, as stated in another place by the
first lord of the treasury.
Earl Granville dare say the noble
lord has read how Louis XIV. got into
the habit of addressing one of his miuor
courtiers by occasionally asking him
how many children he had got. The
answer was always two, but at last the
courtier replied that he had eight, and
on the king expressing some surprise
the courtier said he was afraid of Dor
ing his majesty by always saying the
same thing. (Laughter.) Well, | am
little in the same position, because a
noble lord asked me the same question
that is now on the paper, and answer
ed it a fortnight ago. | can only, there
fore, bore your lordships by repeating
what / said then-namely, that Mr..
Gladstone, answering a question put to
him without notice in the house OF
commons, stated that the neutraliza-
ton of the Suez canal was outside the
reference to the conference, but that ii
was perfectly impossible to separate the
subject of the Suez canal entirely from
the Egyptian question proper. (hear,
hear. Daily Telegraph Parliamentary
Ten0rt
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A Word to Reporters.

Some of the young men who write
for the newspapers Sin reportorial
capacity" as they would say, should
take certain degree of intelligence in
their readers for granted. The bright
ornament of one of the New York pa
pers, who considered it necessary to
tell the public that boy who had lost
both father and mother was practical
ly an orphan" might just as well have
allowed that profound inference to be
made by others; and the young man OF
Milwaukee, who, but few days since,
volunteered the statement that it was
evidence that certain person who shot
himself through the head and then
jumped into the river was bent on
suicide, might have saved himself the
trouble. The people who read the pa
pers to which these geniuses are attach
ed may be dull witted enough to need
assistance in drawing these conclusions,
but it is exceedingly doubtful whether
they like to have the fact made too
patent.-New York Graphic.
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barrel of oil. The guests were rescued,
but lost their effects. The loss is $4,000.
DYsENrERY has become almost cpl
demic at Ashburnham, Mass, owing 10
the impure condition of drinking water.
Several deaths have occurred, and Rev.
ID. Fisk is among those seriously i'll.
FIFTY persons were killed and many in
jured by train leaving the rails at Hug
stetten, Germany. Nineteen carriages
were shattered. 1t seems that telegraph
pole was struck by lightning and fell
across the track.
THE Rio Grande was never so high
since 1859. All bridges and houses along
the lower half are gone, and the town OF
Canargo is said to be almost entirely UNI
der water.
4 FIRE in St. Roche Ward, in Quebec,
originating in confectionery on ST. Jo-
seph street, destroyed the dry goods house
of Philippe Pellitier and other property,
! estimated as high as $3.50, 600.
A FIRE at Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed the
Planters house and the Iron Mountain
railway and express Office, valued at $5,-
| 600. The brick barn of j. F. Studebaker
near South Bend, Ind, was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed, with all
the crops, the loss being $4,000.
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FOREIGN.

ACCORDING TO an official report, 1876 out
RACES were committed in Ireland during
the month of August.
THE British have decided to fortify
Alden, and number of heavy guns will be
Immediately placed in position.
THREE hundred and forty-seven natives
and one European died of cholera at Ma
nilla, Philippine islands, on Sunday.
AN armistica has been concluded be-
tween the Greeks and Turks on the 'front.'
Ter of Thessaly, and negotiations for a
definite settlement of the issue are in
progress.
THE Spanish minister of finance re-
ceived from Barcelona box which was
found to contain four bottles of nitro
glycerine.
MDLLE. BERTHE MARIE DE RoTB sCHILD,
as necessary preliminary to her mar
rage with Prince Alexandra De Wsgram,
has signed an abiuration OF the Jewish
faith and received Christian baptism.
ALL the heavy work on the Panama
canal has been stopped, though the rain
fall thus far has been light. Fever inca
FACILITATES the workmen from performing
their labors.
TIE strike of the Dublin policemen is
virtually ended. The men have been in
ST. ucted to draw up a manifesto to the
authorities, in which they will make coz
fession of their wrong-doing, and beg to
be reinstated.
EARL SPKNCRR, replying to the memoir
ial of the dismissed Dublin policeman,
SAYS he has directed that careful inquiry
into the recent troubles be made. and
those found to be deserving will be rein
stated.
RoDRIGUEs, Castillo, and Maceo, the
three Cuban lea iers, imprisoned at Cadiz.
made their escape some time since, went
TO Tangier, and thence to Gibraltar,
whence they expected to proceed to Amer
ca, but we've delivered over TO the Spsni-
ards by the British police.
THE Anglo Turkish military convention
has at last been signed. Mahmoud Fehmy,
the captured chief of staff of Arab Pasha,
has revealed TO the khedive the positions
and strength of the enemy. Nine loco
motives are en- route TO lsmailia from
Suez and Port Said. which will aid great
" in transporting British troops and sup
plies. A dispatch from 1smailia reports
that Salihiyeh has been abandoned, while
advices from Alexandria are 20 the effect
that over eight thousand Arabs are forth
tying the city.
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Charles De YOung's Murderer.

While Brown Philips, gentle m an
connected with the San Francisco
Chronicle, was sitting in the office OF
the Yosemite Hotel to-day, |. NJ. Kali
loch, of Sonora, entered. Mr.. Kalloch
asked the clerk weather the gentle
mau's name was not Philips; but Mr..
Philips overheard the inquiry and at
once arose and advancing said: eyes,
sir, my name is Philips, Brown Phillips
Pm not ashamed of it. You are cold
blooded murderer. You killed my best
friend without cause. The Kallochs will
have to kill another man, or else the
old mans character will be known. F"
NJ. Phillips talked very plainly to Kali
loch for short time, when the latter
bid him stern good day and retired.
As Mr.. Kalloch went out of the front
door he put his hand into the rear
pocket of his pantaloons, and soon af-
terward came in again by another pas
sage, sat down, took upa paper and be-
gan to read. Mr.. Phillips informed
the reporter of the Mall that he goes
armed by the perm .ssion of the author
tiles of San Francisco, who know that
mis- (Phillips) life was in danger.
He said he would not harm hair Of
Kalloch's head, but that gentleman
must never put his hand into his pocket
and advance toward him (Philllps), and
if he does, said Mr.. Phillips, be twill
have to take the consequences"
Both Kalloch and Phillips were pale
and excited. Phillips was witness
agains Kalloch when the latter was
tried for the murder of Charles De
Young. The spectators of the affair
said that after the alteration both men
went up stsirs. Phillips came down in
a short space of time and took his seat
in the office, and Kalloch entered soon
afterward. Whether they went up
stairs to grid on their weapons or not
is not known. Mr.. Kalloch left for San
Francisco this afternoon. -Stocto3a Inde-
pendent.
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A WASH FOR FRUIT TREES. -William
Saunders, of Washington, ID. c., well
known to Patrons of Husbandry, gives
the following wash for fruit trees that
we know has been used with good re-
suits in several places: "Fcr the past
twenty years | have used q mixture of
lime aud sulphur as wash for the
prevention and destruction Of fungoid
growths on all kinds of fruit trees, and
with decided beneficial effects. 1t is
now well ascertained that many of the
diseases of both vegetables and animals
are duo to fungoid growths, and sui
phur is the best known and one of the
most potent antidotes for the mycelium
and spores Of microscopical fungi, and
the most practical mode of using il is
as an ingredient in the ordinary lime
wash, applied to fences and external
rough woodwork. AS sanitary auxil-
larry in cities, its employment will be-
come general as its usefulness in the
prevention of zymotic diseases becomes
known. If every fence, tree-box, out
building or rough wooden structure in
this city could at once receive coat
ing OF this wash, it would greatly check
malarial disorders. 1t is not costly, AMI
the sulphur imparts additional adhe-
sive qualities to the mixture. The
wash is prepared by placing half a
bushel of fresh burned lime and eight
pounds of powdered sulphur in tight
barrel, Stacking the lime with nearly
boiling water, the mouth of the barrel
being covered with cloth. When cool
it is ready for use as ordinary white
wash"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-09-14
Odd Christian Names.

We have some odd Christian names
here. But they tell great many queer
stories of christenings in England. In
places it was habitual to name all the
children of the family with the same
initial letter, and as the Bible was the
chief if not the only source of these
names, fathers of large families had
their ingenuity taxed to secure the
proper expectations for their little ones.
One parent whose family initial was M
was constrained in time to call two OF
his girls Mahalath and Mahetabel. The
first four boys of family were named
after the four evangelists; on the arriv-
al of the fifth he was chiistened Acts OF
the Apostles, and there are at present
two similar instances at Canterbury,
where, after the evangelists were ex-
hausted, the fifth child was christened
Acts. One hapless boy at Whitechurch,
in Dorsetshire, rejoices in the name OF
Observation-Disclosures.
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TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

TIE first of the new per cent. bonds
were issued from the treasury Sept. Z.
THE postofice department has appoint
ed twenty-five additional auxiliary letter
carriers for the Chicago postofice.
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS intends to have
the report of the commissioner of asri-
culture oat on time this year.
SHOULD Secretary Folger be elected
governor of New York, it is believed Con-
gresham Crowley. of the same state, will
be appointed his successor.
The board of directors OF the Garfield
monument organized by the election of
John w. Thompson, chairman; General
ID. g. Swain, treasurer, and +. I. Wilson,
secretary.
COMMISSIONER LoRrNG. of the agricul-
tural department, left Sept. to fulfill
engagements to speak at state fairs at
Des Moines, Omaha, Topeka and Chicago.
ROBERT P. PORTER, of the tariff COM
mission, wants to be chief of the bureau
of statistics, and is encouraged in his
aspirations by some strong hackers.
TEE following pestmasters were COM
missioned Sept. 6, 1882: William Staples,
Ripon, Dakota; Frank t. Winkler, De-
Forest, MINI; John III. Rock, Spring
Hill, Mimi; Robert III. Folgie, Lorraine,
Polk county, Wis.
In the star-route trials at Washington,
Sept. 8, after Attorney General Brewster
had concluded his address, Judge Wylie
announced that several iurymen informed
him they had been eorruptly approached,
but in whose behalf they failed to state,
and he warned them 10 regard their hsnor
and repel brides with kick.
ONE of Hubhelps collectors said that he
had taken in the treasury department on
the LIST, ID, and Sd of this month and on
the 10Th, 16!h, and 18th of last month an
average of from $1,000 to $4,000 a day,
but that his collections on other days than
those Immediately following pay-days
were comparatively small.
If Sergeant Mason is not released upon
the opinion of Judge Advocate Swain,
reversing tn: decree ST the court-martial,
General Bigelow will apply for writ of
habeas corpus in the northern district of
New York. on the claim that the secre-
tary of war has no authority to override
the judicial opinion Of the judge advocate
general.
GENERAL SHERMAN asked the war de-
part ment that Major Gensrai John NJ.
Schofeld be ordered to San Francisco 10
relieve Major General Irwin Mcdowell
of the command of the military division
of The Pacific, and that General Nc
Dowell be ordered to his home in New
York preparatory to his retirement from
active service in October next.
GENERAL McFEELy, one of the commits
sioners of the soldiers home, says that
there was no truth in the rumor that he
and Generals Drum and Crane intended
to resign their connection with the SOL
diers' home in consequence of the action
of the secretary of war in restoring Gen
eral Sturgis to the governorship of the
home.