The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-27

The sault Ste. Marie Town Hall will
face two streets

Detroit complains OF corruption, gangs,
rings, and thingsin her city government
I Henry Henselman. of Harrison, agent
for an East Saginaw brewer. has been miss
ing since July 80. and his friends are thor
oughly alarmed
President willets. of the State Agricul-
tural College. il In favor Of manual labor
Of some kind being done by the students
in connection with their studies.
Cold weather has knocked all the en-
thusiasm out of the upper peninsula tour
lists. and most of them are returning homo
or sending for their winter buds
The q. A. r. s have postponed the re-
union which was to have been held at
Owosso in August The State encamp-
ment next year will be held at that place.
Will Carleton. the poet, is soon to issue
q volume of new poems. under the title Of
City Ballads" 1t will be q companion
piece to the Farm Ballads of his earlier
days.
-Ismel Smith, Of Grandville, Ken.
County, brutally assaulted last winter b.
three robbers now doing time at Jackson
for their crime, died recently as the result
of his injuries.
The Agricultural College people are
testing the vitality of seeds buried in
sealed bottles six years ago. The seeds
which thus far prove to have most vitality
are those Of common weeds, their percent
age being from 80 to 100, while plant seeds
did not germimte freely.
Roland Root. for half century a
prominent citizen of Branch County, died
at Coldwater, aged II. He had been totally
blind for the past year. He served four
| years in the lower house of the State Leg
islature. and was First Lieutenant Of Com
pany A, First Michigan Light Artillery.
Out of twenty seven houses in Plain
field near Howell, nine are now empty as a
result of the Air Line of the Grand Trunk
Railroad running three miles away a-d the
starting of the village of Gregory about a
year ago. One man has locked up his
store Groom and built new store at Greg
DRY, because his trade has all gone to the
latter place.
The Chief Engineer Of the Michigan
Central Railroad states. in the Railroad
Gasetts, t4As4a's,ve -ssails purca ss1 for that
road do not survive as long santeed'
.L(/and that rails laid as late as 1854 al
ready been removed on account of cr19r
ends. An explanation of these faults %
given in the Scientific American. which
says that the demand of the railroads for
cheap rails has led manufacturers to work
in Stag and cinder with the steel. and in
that way turn out fair-appearing shoddy
rail, in the manufacture of which there is
a small profit. and the demands of the rail-
road companies for low priced rails are sat-
isfed
Hygienic-Builetin from the State Board
of Health.
Sanitary authorities have claimed that
the sanitary work which they have recon-
mended to be done as q preparation for
cholera-such as preventing and abating
Luisances. attending to drains. sewers,
privies, and cesspools, cleaning up gen.
orally. and unusual carefulness in regard
| to foods and drinks-would reduce the
sickness and deaths from other diseases,
even if cholera did not come. The weekly
reports for July, 1885, to the Michigan
State Board of Health, by physicians in
different parts of the State, indicate that
this claim is being realized in Michigan, SO
far as relates to the lessened sickness. it
| having been lessened from nearly every
disease, and greatly lessened from fevers
and from diarrheal and other diseases be-
lieved to be specially influenced by sani-
| tary conditions; and this is true, notwith-
standing the meteorological conditions in
that month were rather more than usually
unfavorable to health.
1t is proper to state, however. that the
sickness in any month is influenced BY the
met orc, ogical conditions in the preceding
month and that the meteorological con-
ditions in June, 1885, were favorable to
health.
Observations in Michigan for many years
have shown that in July the meteorological
conditions especially unfavorable to health
are high temperature, excessive humidity
of the atmosphere. and deficiency of ozone.
The bulletin of Health in Michigan, July,
1885. says: For the month of July, 1885,
compared with the average of correspond
ing months for the seven years, 1879
1885, the temperature was slightly higher,
the absolute and the relative humidity
ozone were less.
Compared with the average for the
months of July in the seven years, 1879
1885, remittent fever, intermittent fever,
dysentery, consumption of lungs, cholera
infantum, diarrhea, cholera morbus, mea-
sles, and whooping- cough were less preva-
lent IN July, 1885.
A large part of this decrease in sickness
has undoubtedly been due to the medical
and sanitary journals and the newspapers,
which have constantly kept before the peo-
pie the necessity for sanitary work and the
facts as to the spread Of cholera in Europe.
1t remains to be seen TO what extent eff
forts for the exclusion Of cholera from this
country, and the general preparation for
cholera by Boards of Health aud the peo-
pie. shall prove effectual; but. even il
cholera shall not be entirely prevented,
there will remain the belief that the meas
ures which have so greatly decreased the
sickness from other diseases cannot but
have had their influence in decreasing il;
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