Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-28
EARTHQUAKES ASH PLAQUES.
Some Curious statistics and Cofnci-
dcmces-A Scientists Theories.


time for vendors Of anti-cholera nostrums
and glvers of counsel as TO what one
should eat, drink and avoid, as, for in
stance, people who are in the habit Of
washing ought to continue to do so, and
people who nave prejudice against soap
and water ought on no account to change
their habits, for which sage advise we
are indebted to the Figaro: and it is
great thing. too, for prophets. especially
for Captain Delaunay, that warrior .scien-
tlst who claims 10 have worked out the
theory OF earthquakes and to be able to
fix the date of their occurrence, so that
people anxious to flee from the coming
wrath may do SO. The Chinese set down
everything that does not 90 right to the
baneful influence of a tailless dragon,
which thus resents the loss suffered dur
ing his youthful days while a serpent.
Captain Delaunay sets down all untoward
things to the influence of the stars, fol-
lowing In this the opinion of the ancients,
who connected epidemics with meteoro-
ligical phenomena, which opinion was
also shared by many learned doctors who
have collected facts establishing very
strange condolences, TO say the least, be-
tween the appearance Of epidemics and
atmospheric and other perturbations, of
which ] venture to quote the following
examples taken from Chapel's work on
the asteroids:
B. c. 30-Earthquake in Judea in which
10000 persons pe.ished, followed by cattle
plague.
A. ID. 17-Earthouake in Asia: twelve cities
destroyed; followed by the plague.
"A. ID. 70-Earthquake at Rome, accom-
panied by plague, of which 10000 inhabi-
tants died
A. ID. 145-Earthquake accompanied by a
plague at Rhodes
A. D. 166-Earthquake, foundations and
plague at Rome.
A. d. 26l-Great earthquakes at Rome, in
Africa and in Asia; at Rome and Greece s.
900 deaths daily from the plague.
A. ID. 333-Salamis destroyed by an earth
quake simultaneous appearance of the plague
in Asia.
A ID. 55S-Earthquake during ten days at
Constantinople, followed by the plague in that
city
*. d. 615-Great earthquake in Italy fol-
lowed by a terrible pestilence
A ID. 6S3-Violent storms in Italy and fear
full plague.
A ID. Earthquakes at Aix-la-C hapelle
and in Saxony; storms and plague in Ger
many.
A ID. S42-Earthquake in Northern France,
followed by violent cough, probably pneu-
monia) of which many persons died
A ID. 1032-Great earthquake in the East;
; virlllent plague in Armenia and Cappadocia.
A. ID. 106S- Earthquake in England fol-
lowed by great mortality among men and
A. ID. 10S5-Earthquakes and plague in
Western Lorraine
A. d. l097-Great flights of meteors, fol
lowed by great mortality.
a. ID. 1877, 1921 and 1352-Numerous
nd nv to1if " in
A ID. 134S-Ear hquakes and showers of
blood-thirty-six German cities destroyed
followed by pest which lasted three years.
a. ID. l3I0-Similar perturbations and dis
ease at Florence.
A. ID. 1397-Earthquake and epidemic at
Montpelier.
A. b. 14ol-Violent tempest and plague at
Florence
a. d. 1908 Extraordinary tempest in
Tburingia, with a simultaneous appearance
of the pest in Saxony.
A. d. 1449-E Earthquake and plague in Car
nielu
A. d. 1456-Tempests earthquakes and
plague in Italy; 3000) victims.
A. d. 153l-Violent earthquake, followed
by the plague at Lisbon.
A d. 1607-Numerous earthquakes storms
and epidemics in Europe.
A. ID. 1647-Great earthquake with inn
mense disaster at Santiago plague and snow
during three days
"A. IL. ltoU-N lOlenU eaIJIquake, IOlOWeu
by the plague at Santiago
"A. ID. 17S3-Several shocks of earthquake at
Rome, followed by diseases of different kinds
A. ID 179S-Great fight of meteors and
many pestilential maladies on the continent
A. u. 1S3l-Earthquake at Amboyna, sui
phurous fog and the typhus.
"A. ID. 1S39-Second earthquake at Amboy
ms. accompanied by violent epidemic.
A. ID. 1S45-Third earthquake at Amboyna,
coinciding with fresh outbreak of the cpl
, demic.
Captain Delaunav closes his catalogue
Of cataclysms here with an apology for
its length 1t is to be regretted that he
has omitted all considerations of other
and more recent earth upheavals and at
mospheric eccentricities, such as the dis
asters of lschia, Java and Asia Minor, but
he thinks to have cited enough examples
to prove his thesis that "every epidemic
is connected with some meteorological
phenomenon from an identical primer
dial cause; so that all perturbation which
affect our globe belong to one or other
of the following three categories: At
mospheric, (storms, cyclones, etc., ter
restrial, volcanic eruptions and earth
quakes) or physiological, that is to say,
epidemics.
Er.ne MasOns in North America