Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-31

India, Egypt and France, in the bodies of persons who have died of the cholera, and to the presence of which he attributes that ter rible scourge, were, exhibited for the first time in public in London at the Imperial theater by the aid of a gigantic microscope. The germs-no longer in an active state had been specially procured from the cholera district in the south of France. As magni- fed some two million times, and shown by the aid of the electric light, they appeared nearly of the size of the palm of ones hand. They were quite colorless, and in the shape of coils representing circles and shapes not unlike the figure 8, precisely as described in Dr. Koch's work on the subject.
 The Scientific American has an interesting illustration of new life-saving apparatus, designed to utilize the properties of oil in case of accident. It is called the automatic wave lubricating life buoy, and resembles in appearance an ordinary circular life pre- server. A seamless brass reservoir extends round the inside of the apparatus, and this being filled with oil is so arranged by means of rose like those placed upon sprinkling | cans, that when the life buoy is hung upon the vessels stern no oil can escape. When placed horizontally, however, the liquid flows out freely. If person falls overheard the buoy ,on being thrown into the water, spreads out large circular film of oil, which smooths the waves and enables the victim of acci- dent to rest safely until rescued by the boats.
 One of General Grants friends says the change in him during the last year is alarm ing. 'For years," says this friend ''he was known as the silent man. He is silent no longer. He talks constantly. He repeats the same denunciations of Ward over and over again with parrot-like persistence which is very pathetic. I have heard him say for hour at time: He was smart and I trusted him. My name was the bank and he was the cashier'' He is further repre- scented as feeling deeply humiliated by the failure, and as constantly berating his own carelessness which brought ruin to his sons and friends. He sits for hours at a time say ing meaningless things about the late catas- trophe Of strong family affections, he em- parked in business more on his sons account than his own. He now blames himself for blasting their prospects in life.
 Judge Barringer of the international tribu- nal, who was in Alexandria, Egypt, during the entire cholera year, says that he is con vinced that the disease is never caused by personal contact. While there he and his family lived in house containing thirty fam lilies, and were free from the slightest attack of cholera, although there were deaths all around them. ''We received ,'' he says, E'al- most daily visits from our physician, who often came to US straight from the bedside of dying or dead person. Neither he nor we ever caught it. We were careful, partic- ularly in our diet. We never ate uncooked food of any description; such as fruits or salads Even our water we boiled, while some of our neighbors drank nothing but tea the water for which was first filtered and then boiled. No one who used these simple precautions was attacked. I think these two facts will agree with Dr. Kochs theory as to the propagation of the disease, and these are the safeguards which should be used by every one should cholera visit these shores, as in all human probability it will do." 7 Tho difficulties with which the Russian