Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-12

ture play depicting the horrors of tene-
ment-house life in New York from the
pen of BARLEY Campbell. 1t may prove
a fitting companion piece to the Lights
o. London and the other great English
melodramas.
DR.. Koch, the great authority on
cholera, stated in a neat lecture last
night in Berlin, that he was convinced
the delta of the Ganges was the real home
of the disease. The religious pilgrimages
in India greatly promoted the spread OF
the cholera. An improved water supply,
DR.. Koch thought, was the best means
of checking the disease. The researches
of DR.. Koch regarding the cause and
progress of cholera have excited great
interest in Poland, where epidemics
somewhat similar to that now existing in
France are of almost annual occurrence.
The newspapers of Warsaw have devoted
great deal of space to the discussion of
cholera, and cholera forms the leading
topic of conversation in the cafes and
other places of popular amusement. One
curious result of this general agitation is
an offer by an educated Pole, in middle
age and vigorous health, to allow him.
self to be inoculated with the cholera
microbes so that the effect of such an
incubation in human being in normal
health may be scientifically scrutinized.
In the physical world South America
is full of wealth, and nature has be.
slowed upon it matchless grandeur in
its rivers and its mountains. Professor
Fisher shows that inter tropical America
surpasses all the world in the number and
variety of its plants, while Agassiz shows
how greatly the wonderful variety of its
fishes surpasses that of North America.
Much of the country is now malarious
and unhealthy, yet vast regions of ele-
waited and most beautiful sections are
most salubrous and healthy, and clothed
with an incredible wealth of ceaseless
production. Endless varieties of the
most luscious fruits and beautiful flowers,
with birds of gorgeous plumage and
gigantic butterflies, delight the eye on
every hand, far up on elevations where
neither the winters cold nor excessive
heat is ever known, and all nature teens
with health, beauty and abundance.
Even the low levels along the great
river team with endless wealth and in
vite commerce that has scarcely be-
gun, save in few articles. East of the
Andes, and intersected by many great
rivers, is probably the greatest and most
valuable forest on the globe, and almost
untouched by the axe. Mr.. Thompson
w n hold fha 1Nnoitipn nf oOpa,,1 o. - I
for some time, states that in travelling on
the Amazon he saw sandalwood trees
that here would each be worth $4,000,
yet of whose value the natives seemed
unconscious or Indifferent.
A muscular young Scotchman, who
had passed the physical examination
creditably, was rejected by the United
States recruiting officer in Philadelphia
the other day because of his imperfect
knowledge of the English language.
This is frequently the case. About one
in fifteen persons fail to pass for the same
reason. The reflections on account of de-
fective teeth and eyesight exceed all
others. 1t is required that the applicant
shall have not less than eight good molar
teeth, in addition to fair number of in
cisors, which are considered necessary to
proper mastication Of army fare. When
an applicant presents himself the exami-
ner closely examines for depressions,
next the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.
The would-be soldier then disrobes, and
his bodyis thoroughly searched for physi-
cal defects. Every test is applied to
learn the condition of the heart and
lungs. The arms, hands, fingers, legs,
feet and toes are all infinitely scanned.
Stiffness in the joints of any of these
members is fatal to the chances of an ap.
plicant for enlistment. After undergo.
ing the examination, the aspirant to mil.
itary fame is directed to jump as high as
he can and alight fairly upon his feet.
If he winces the indications are that he
is troubled with corns on the soles of his
feet, which is cause for rejection, as an
affection of that sort would be an OBJ
stacle in marching. He must weigh moi
less than 1870 pounds, nor more than 1870,
nor be less than five feet four inches il
height.