The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-17

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before a mlcrobe, an animalcuIe OF
commaform, and invisible to the
naked eye lie unworthy of man. DR.
Koch mightlend US one OF his cholers
microbes, but one guaranteed
dead by a coroner's jury, to have il
magniHed and exhibited to the crowd
Since the "water tiger" the parasite
peculiar to drinking water, was thu,
made known, many precautions were
adopted to filter and boil potable
waters. The Iater-tiger was a
microscopic monster of the most
hideous mica; he fed on similar
den zens, called eyciops ard didiscuses
and after devouiing lese as the giant
a nursery full OF babies in III J i4iry
tale, be rubbed his paws and his ia Va
like blue bottle fly. Aa one OF the
aims in treating cbolers is to induce
the circulation oil the blood, which
has tie tenden " to &c. thick, Dr..
Mesnet in 1866, empl yed nettIes for
that purpose, and fagellated his
patients. l give the receipt because
it is simple aud easily prepared.
Wearing hair shirts like Charles X,
might prove not only penitential, but
anti-cholersio. The microbes-un-
known yesterday, and at present
king, would thus be compelled to
move on" and like the moutons de
Panu,ge once one fellow would run,
the myriads might follow my leader.
Horrible pettss; no wonder Voltaire
said he preferred to be attacked by
one lion rather than by ten thousand
rats. DIR. George raises his warning
voice that extreme caution ought to
be, observed not to bury cholera
plsie Is until they are really dead.
Bot too many errors OF that nature
have already occurred. a prover6
says; Evil things never last long in
Paris" Ainsi-Son-H.
Another cholera outbreak is what
free-tradsrs call ''protectionisln.
France in order to teach nations how
to live, has just raised the
DUI1 UN IMPoRTED SUGAR
100 per cent. She has recently about
doubled the customs tariffs on live
stock and -four, has it in contempla-
ton to impose ajax on cereals, a little
famine law. 1t 10 under the guise OF
trichinosis, that American pork ia ex-
Guided. England throws open her
home and colonial empires without
privilege or reserve, to all nations,
while France returns miserably to the
regime which accelerated, il not
determined since the sixteenth CEN
u y the decadenoe of Spain. The
Minister of Agriculture and the
under secretary for the colonies
glori!y this policy. a century ago,
Russia vas one of the principal iron
exporting countries and rivalled
Sweden. To day she has to purchase
her iron from the foreigner; near Nj.
Blsgodaz, ia nous for its iron a rail-
way is LAID down with rails imported
from England. and the Volgs is
crossed by iron bridges prepared in
Belgium. France accords DO MY
10 her beet sugar cultiTato7s to
COMPETE WITH GERMANY AND
AUSTRIA,
and this new tax is levied on the well
being of the community at large.
No wonder the budget is annually in
deficit; it will SOON resemble that OF
Brszil, where the chief duty OF the
chancellor Of the Exchequer is never
to allow the yearly deficit to sink be-
low so, coo, coo francs.
The Senate will not vote the revi-
siou bill: will not perform the happy
dispatch The ministry is perplexed
but the nation is profoundly indiffer-
eut to the whole question. More
m ney is being voted for prolonging
the "Acheen-war OF Madagascar.
The most rapid advocate for thrash
ing the Hovas into accepting a PRO
tectorats" was the Bishop of Anglers.
Like Mahomes he counts upon the
sword to christisnize natives, whom ii
appears the Americans and English
have protestAntized. Tonquin is not
yet organized, save on paper; how
ever, a glorious future awaits Tunisia;
the dockyards and arsenals OF Roche.
fort aud Lorient, are likely to be
transferred to Bizsrte. France would
thus have two Toulons, and better
hold on the Mediterranean.
M.de Leaseps ia favorable to widen.
ing the present, and not to
MAKING A SECOND sUEz CANAL.
The Khedive intends TO this time
make the shareholders - who art
largely the famous OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
handsomely for any new lands, art
the naYgiea. Squeeze for squeeze
Much interest is taken in the ccminl
annual meeting OF the Panams
Canal; the reputation of NJ. de Les
seps- and may he triumph-and hi
engineers are at stake. II il
charged that the engineering ant
financial calculations are at sea. A
the surveys have been completed
definite answers must be given to tn
questions: Have only z ,250. 600 cubi'
yards OF excavations been adecte'
since the commencement OF the enter
prise2 Are there remaining la. 600. Oe'
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