Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-04

the year" This does not look as if the gas companies of Great Britain have much cause to fear the electric light.
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 victim of leprosy has emigrated from Honolulu to Massachusetts, and some of the newspapers of that State are considerably exercised by the occurrence. cheerful controversy is going on in Honolula as to the number of cases of leprosy existing in that district. The Honolulu AdUertiser is very indignant at the 'sreckless indiscretion" of the statement that the ''city IS full of lep rosy" and says that .'probably little more than 100 confirmed cases and suspects are to be found at large within the limits of the district of Honolulu" The Press, also 8 Honolulu paper, says s'it is g well known fact that there are in the neighborhood of 300 cases in this district"
 The underground railroad which is to unite the different parts of the city of Naples is receiving much attention from engineers, in it's technical and typographical relations. According to the plan now projected, a DOT tion of the railroad will be in the open air and part in tunnels under the hills that lie west and north of the city, and under some of the principal streets. Instead of steam, compressed air will be employed, and the tunnels and cars lighted with gas, according to the most improved system. One of the novelties of this railroad is that from an un derground station in the body of mountain called Vonaero it will be connected, by means of subterranean lift, with an open air rail road immediately above, running through the villages on the top of that mountain. From the underground station, this lift will ascend more than 500 feet to reach the upper station on the top of the Vomero.
 A writer in the Paris ToltGire, who signs himself Argus makes the astonishing as sertion that the PapaI court of to day is lit tie better than it was in the days of the Borgias. He says that Cardinal Franchi, first of Pope Leo XIII, was poisoned on account of his Liberal views by the Ultra montane party. "He had managed" the writer continues, ''to acquire certain infiu- ence over the disagreeable character of the Pope. But his Liberal politics, which be did not take pains enough to conceal gave
 
 On the 31st of July, after saying his mass, the Cardinal sw walIowed a cup of chocolate brought to him in the sacristy. He was full of life and health few hours afterward he was dead. Leo XIII. has but one devoted friend-his brother, Cardinal Pecci :; , holy man, if there ever was one. The 1 Pope is too much of an Italian not to know 1 hat there are various ways of being pois- | oned {; so he takes the greatest precautions. l Cardinal Pecci carries his fraternal devotion l 10 far as to taste of all the food brought for | he repasts of his Holiness, and the latter | never touches it till he knows that his broth | ,r has sustained no i'll effects from his share' l Strange adds Argus" ''as these details l nay appear, they are of the most rigorous ,xactitude.''
 Dr. Ebstein, of the University of Gottin- | zen, has been making some interesting exper- ments concerning gout. He discovered method of. foducing gout in the inferior 1nimals sapplying his discovery to birds ook th sunity to study the origin, ' ,ause an ions of the uisease. He found, in the course of his exp fiments, that he first step in the development of gouty lodosity was the creation, by the action of he uric acid in the blood, of local centre ,f tissue destruction. This occurred prior o the deposition of the salts of uric acid llways present at such centres of disease, and vas absolutely the first discoverable step in he progress of the malady. Dr. Ebstein ound in his gouty birds foci of nocrotic tis- sue in the cartridges, in the kidneys, joints endons, and connective structures. After she local destruction of tissue has proceeded 0 8 given extent it is followed by stage of inflammation which differs in it's description, and in the abnormal products it reates according to the nature of the tissue D which it occurs, and thus the nodosities of yout, differing in structure from each other. put identical in cause and origin, are grad lally built up. By injections of uric acid dissolved in solution of phosphate of soda, 'r merely held in suspension in water, Dr. 1bstein declares it possible to produce local centres of gout in any animal, and this direct experiment. he regards conclusive as to the primary agency of the acid in the tormenting series of phenomena.