The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-01-19

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tomb over his remains in recegni-
ton of the splendid courage dis
played by him.
| The British Medical Journal all
vises that all books used by patents
suffering from contagious diseases
be burned after convalescence, and
that secondhand book stores be
subject occasionally to dlsenfec-
tion.
Efforts are being made by the
Catholics of Denver, Col, to make
that city the seat of the largest
Jesuit college in America. There
is already subscribed $4,000 and
much more is promised under GER
tain obligation.
The natives of Madagascar have
taken cleverly to the manufacture
of firearms. They have accurately
initiated the French mitrailleuse.
and call the German engineer, who
has shown them how to make dyn-
amite, "Father Gunpowder."
In the course of a lecture in Bal
timore On food and the markets, in
their relation to municipal hygiene,
Dr. John S. Billings affirmed that
50 diphtheria epidemics, 7 scarlet
fever epidemics and IL typhoid epi-
denies have been traced to the milk
supply.
There has not been a time in
many years when there were so
many ships in San Francisco har-
Dor as there are now. Excluding
whalers and coasters and those en-.
gagged In the Pacific islands and
Mexican trade, there were at a re-
cent date 1856 ships and barks in
port.
The Public Printer of the United
States is at the head of the largest
printing establishment in the world,
employing 2,2OO men and printing
every year 2O0,O0O,O00 blanks, en-
velopes, ETC., 325 blank books and
and 100000 pamphlets. and books
He uses up every year about ST.
100000.
Judge Truax Of the supreme
court of New York has followed in
the lead of other courts by deciding
that a native Of China cannot be
naturalized unless he has declared
his intention of becoming a citizen
before the act of May, 1882, excud-
ing the Chinese from the privileges
of immigration
The march Of total abstinence in (
England has been interrupted for
the moment by the farmers cfWilt-
shire. They have dubbed together
and presented a purse ofs5O0 to the
man who, little while ago, proved
that he could pitch more wheat
with the all of beer than an oppon-
ent who drank nothing but pure
water.
Devils Lake, in northern Da-
kota, does not in any sense deserve
its name, for it is fine sheet of
water in the midst of beautiful
scenery, and there are no evil ira !.
ditions concerning it. The fact is.
that the Indians called it Spirit
Lake, and the white men regarded
a spirit as necessarily devil.
Residents talk of changing the
name back to the original Mime
waubau.
Ivan Tourguenief suffered much
during the latter years Of his life
from painful spinal complaint for
which he consulted many eminent
physicians anl tried innumcrablc
remedies. 1t appears, too, from a
curious fact that has just come to
light at Chaux,de- Fcnds, in the
Swiss Jura, that the great novelist
did not put implicit trust in the
faculty, and that when doctors
failed to relieve his sutferings he
sometimes applied to ehpirics.
The police of that place had occa-
sion Il few days ago to take pro-
ccedings against quack, whose
supposed cures had won him
great reputation with the rustics of
tho neighborhood, and among the
mans papers was found a letter
from Tourguenietf written at
Bougival, near Paris, describing
his disease and asking for pres
cription.
The excavations recently COM
mcnccd by M. Carapanos on the
site of the ancient Oracle of
Dodona have already led to dis.
covcry of the foundations of the,
ancient temple of Zeus, Other,
relies of ancient times have like,
wise been brought 10 light in tho
course of the silsgings. The moss
remarkable of these objects arc a,
considerable number OF leaIen
tablets, on which are written ques-
tions that were at one time Or other.
submitted to the ancient oracle
Such inquiries were naturally leia
behind at the temple, while the n>-
plies were naturally taken. asWssy by
those WHO put the. questions which
they departed for home. Hence it
is, hat with single exception, no
answers have bees found on the.
numerous tablets that have hce4a
discovered. In this exceptional
instance besides the question which,
is on one side of the tablet, tho re-
DIV of the oracle is founl on. the.