Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-30

take the prepared phosphate, which is in
great demand in Japan. Italy furnishes
sulphur for the sulphuric acid, taking her
pay In kind, and growing trade is growing
up with Germany for her rock for potash. It
in estimated that South Carolina already
furnishes about one-third of the commercial
fertilizer now used in the United States, and
as her deposits of phosphate are supposed to
be inexhaustible, there is no reason why,
with the constantly increasing demand, she
should not reap large and profitable harvest
Besides, cheap and ample supply of good
fertilizer will stimulate in the South, as we'll
as elsewhere, fuller cultivation of land, as
well as better cultivation.
General Negrier, the French commander
who is now fighting against the Chinese,
GENES of fighting stock. His grandfather,
who was in command of French frigate at
San Domingo when the Revolution broke
out, had wonderful escape from death. His
crew mutinied, and hung him at the yard
arm; but his black servant contrived to cut
the rope before life was extinct, and Captain
Negrier fell into the sea- He SWAN to for
sign vessel under hail of bullets from his
u.
ly took part in several French rovalist expe-
ditions, and died in Portugal shortly before
the Restoration His eldest son entered Ma
poleon's service and fought at Waterloo,
where he received five wounds none of them
mortal. He was killed in 1849 before bar
ricade in the Faubourg st. Antoine while
expostulating with the rioters and endeavor-
ing to bring them to reason. General Ne
grier's father, also general, distinguished
himself at the battle of Solferino, and receiv-
ed ths Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
from Napoleon III. on the field. The old
general is still alive, in his Seth year.
A correspondent of the New York Herald
has been inoculated with the cholera germ at
Valencia, Spain, in company with some ply
sicians and other persons. The germ was
cultivated by Dr. Ferran in specially pre-
pared broth. The injection was given the
patient in both arms, the back part, be-
twesn the elbows and the upper muscle. A
small syringe with point like a needle was
used, penetrating simultaneously about half
an inch. After hour he began to feel
considerable pain about the spinal region,
the injection causing muscular agitation, the
pain extending to the palms of the hands.
In two hours his temperature rose to fever
heat. This was followed by clammy hands,
lassitude and pain in the legs. In four hours
his arms became very painful, with sensa-
ton as though they had been severely
bruised. After this the activity of the vac
cine subsided, but the arms grew very stiff,
80 that he could scarcely lift them. Later on
he began to experience nausea, accompanied
by dull headache, while the pain in the
arms spread to the muscles of the back. He
went to bed and slept well, but awoke with
severe headache. The period during
which symptoms continue is forty-eight
hours. A single incubation will, it is be-
ieved, give immunity from cholera conta-
gion for three months.
&C Reader" tells thu Burlington Hawkeye
that he Tor she) does not believe that the
world revolves. The HaRkeye thus explains
the matter: If &c. Reader will watch
freight train coming down the grade into the
city almost any day very familiar illustra-
ton will be seen. While the train is in mo-
tion the brakeman may run or leap or dance,
but the train does not run away from him.
If he jumps straight up he will come down
in his own tracks just the same as though
he was on the ground, although the spectator
can see that the, train is moving The reason
is that the brakeman's body has acquired all
the momentum of velocity of the car and
when he jumps straight up that momentum
carries him along, as fast, practically, as the
car moves. Or, let &C Reader sometime
when in moving train, hold his
knife, or, what will make a more indeIible
impression, twenty dollar gold piece, i'm
mediately over the opening between the two
cars and let go of it and see if the rear car
will catch up to it. Twenty dollars invested
in that way will teach philosophy much
more seriously and permanently than all the
lectures that were ever given. After walking
back from the next station and finding that
somebody else has picked up the gold piece,
there will be no trace left of the idea that
man can jump up high enough to let the
world run away from him.