Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-01-28
CONN. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 20, 1885.
year 1884 Is given in the official statistics just

year 1884 is given in the official statistics jus
issued at "a, 7sO, 726 hectolitres. A hectic
litre is about twenty-five gallons. This ii
more than million less than that of 1888
| but some four millions more than that o
| 1882, and about three and half millions
more than the average of the last five years
The wine-planted area is, however, constant
| ly lessening in consequence of the ravages OF
| the phylloxera. In 1874 there were 2, ,446,-
| 900 hectare of vineyards, but at the present
| time these do not cover more than 2, ,040, 759
hectares. Last year alone the reduction, not
withstanding fresh paintings, was 55, ,00O
hectare. To meet the deficiencies of the home
| production there has been an increased manu-
! facture of artificial wines and also increased
| importations AS much as 1855, 900 hecto-
| litres were last year produced by adding
sugared water and by the fermentation of
raisins.
The Medical Record has a very interesting
article on the cholera, it's appearance in Eu-
rope last fall ,and the probability of it's occur
renee in this country next summer The
Record claims that if the present national
board of health were clothed with the neces-
sary powers and means, it could prevent its
Introduction into seaports from the
cholera germs of Europe. It says cholera is
portable entity, which is carried from
place to place by persons or luggage. The
qualified health officer can intercept the con-
tagion. A proper system of sanitary inspec
ton of travellers and luggage along the great
thoroughfares of commerce would effectually
prevent the germs of the scourge from reach
ing the mainland. The Record assumes that
Congress should at once confer upon the
present national board adequate powers and
authority, and provide it with ample means
to enforce necessary measures of prevention
s'Ws have strong convictions of the power Of
modern sanitary science, when intelligently
applied, to control perfectly the diffusion of
portable contagion," says the Record.
A French paper says that the attention of
the police at Chalons was lately attracted by
a little boy with one arm, and another child,
cripple wheeling himself about in a small
wooden box. Both children appeared so ut
terly miserable and pain stricken that they
were taken to the station, where they told a
sad story of suffering. About two years ago,
it transpired, the boys, who are cousins,
aged respectfully eight and ten, were living
with their parents at Barcelona. While re
turning from school together they were ac-
costed by man and woman, who enticed
them to the railway station and brought
them to Perpignan. There, and subsequent
ly at Chalons, one of the boys was made one
armed, the other cripple, the limbs it was
requisite to suppress being bent and strapped |
up in the most cruel manner. After time |
the little lad who wheeled himself about in |
the box was cut about the loins with a knife, |
corrosive liquid being poured on to his |
wounds His legs were further attenuated |
by ropes tightly wound round them; in
short, for upward of two months the little |
martyrs We're operated upon daily, and sue
cess having attended the horrible process,
they were sent out to beg in the streets of
Tarious French towns.