The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-08-01

Washington, at all news-stahus. ifice w VEINS
FOREIGN NOTES.
The swallow, which has Just been completed for
sea a, sheerncss, England, has cost about f5o,ooo
She is the first of new iand much needeD class OF
speedy and heavily armcred gun-vessels IN wnisn
hitherto the British navy has been aencen.. IN, NE
Swallow Ia armed with four Nordenfelt guns, IouI
Gardner guns eighty. ive-inch hreech-loailng guns
mounted on vavaseur fittings, and she carries spar
torpedoes. Her engines are OF l,Soo horsepower
The excessive rate OF mortality among the br,tish
troops at Assouan continues. Medical returns for
the last three months show 200 deaths at this spot
aloue equivalent to the terrific death rate OF 40 per
cent for the year. The officers on the Spot cohllni.
themselves to the alarming statement that the men
left would be Incapable OF a six miles march In the
weather now being experienced. is fortunate LOT
the British that there Is no sse n,pues Of
active warfare against such brave anu .ecAless
enemy as the Soudanese Arabs have proved them-
selves.
The Russian authorities according to the London
Times are about to expend considerable sums OF
money on the Improvement Of tie Black Sea ports.
The port of Marlopol Is to be thoroughly repaired
under the direction Of Messrs. B0reicha AMI MaXno-
witch, engineers, Mt a cost of a,O0o,0oo rubes. AT
Odessa the mole IL to be leveled and repaired and
new breaSwaiers constructed. The harbor Is also
to be deepened. These alterations will entail an out
Law OF 500, 900 rubes. new port Is to be made al
Noyorosssk for sD,ooo rubles, and is to be ready
by lsSs. Various other improvements are to he ei-
fecied at Nicoiaier, otchakoG, iata Selastopol,
Taganrag, and in the canal OF kertch-i eniSale.
Russia "a never at loss for grievance against
Turkey when she wants one, and al Berlin she pro-
vded herself with which has been kept in reserve
for some years. 1t was stipulated that Turkey
should pay 10 Russia a war indemnity, but that, as
Turkey was utterly exhausted and could get nc
credit payment should be deferred for an Indefinite
inl puap Ia mr.
although she il well aware that is utterly lmposs
BILE for the Sultan to pay 1t. This demand may have
Mussulmans on tine frontier OF Montenegro have
come into collision with the Montenegrns, the TURK
ish troops holding aloof In Itself the WON.
infammab!e material OF the Balkan peninsula may
become the cause OF an Immense connagration.
IAN act of objectionable vandalism" says TIT
Pal lfaH Gazette. ''is going to be committed, II, a
report says, the old bridge of Ayr Is to be demol
tshed II when Burns wrote of the bridge Of Ayr HI
could talk of the poor narrow fOotpath of street
where twa wheebarrows tremble when they meet.
it is not surprising that the stones are now dropping
from their places and that the aud brig Is consd
cred unsafe for iraic But for close on $50 years II
has done It's work anu that surely y ohg , ~ ~
honored national monument That 'conceed gowH,
the new bridge, Is still quite capahle OF CARVING AZ
who wish TO cross the Ayr and II IL dliicut 10 IN
derstand what Imperative reason there can be for
destroying the brig of ancient Pctish race, the vera
"On Saturday night" says the 81. Jdnes's Gazette
san interesting Is to he witnessed in every towI
and village in Scotland. 1t Is a stream OF HI
natives in their Sabbath clothes making for tn
small grocers. The puzzled visitor thinks that al
eaaHF'o IL p M mnqT Il ihH a
going people. What every one ia OIL to buy is bal
shopman TO give him the change in half pennies
The f-pennies are for the plate, the oZenges 10
favorabiy known as extra strong eaten through
out the country at every service. There Is o grea
art In Slipping them solemnly Into your mouth. an
at II that they can do II though the minister's eye b.
on them"
Professor Max SCHUYLER, of Berlin, Ia convince
(Deutsche Med. Wochenscl., No. 2l) OF the super
GRITTY OF massage over other measures employed
the treatment OF sciatica, and relates MS experenc
OF fifteen cases--all In males, and except In one @
two instances (Which were tranmatic) due to expos
ure to cold. Most Of the cases were dealt with iron
the first by MASSAGE but ~ few instances electric
prior to coming under his care. The modus opeI
andi is as follows: The patient lies on the unai
fected side with knees and hips slightly licked. TIL
course of the scatic nerve Ia rubbed from below VI
wards, partly with both thumbs partly with the 6a
OF the little finger or thumb; sometimes struck wit
the closed fist sometimes the muscular mass owe
the nerve pressed aud kneaded with both hand
The pain evoked by these Inanlpu!ations passe
away, and after short time becomes less and les
at each sitting. The neuralgia pains very 500
abate, eliminating after severe AMI paininl mas
sage, then recurring with less severity, and graz
ually disappearing entirely. The power Of walkln
improves after each sitting. on an average tn
treatment lasts about two weeks and half but I
one case nine days and in several from ten to -four
teen days sufilced. one patient abandoned, the treat
ment after i've days. owing TO the pain caused by II
and tried without relief fOrtnights course of cleo
trclty and vapor baths he then returned To the mas
sage treatment, and was cured In two weeks and
haf.-Lancet
The strongest testimony which has yet been q,
duced to the success OF NJ. Pasteur's system al
pears in Dr. Drysdales letter To the London Time
There have been plenty of persons who, whenevt
the death of one OF n. Pasteur's patients has bee
reported have Instantly decided In their own mind
that the new cure was only another failure But, @
DR.. Drysdae points out the percentage OF deaths ~
been remarkably small. Thus, out OF ninety u
persons bitten 6y aoEs when .h wets
giving a death rate Of only l.O4 per cent. TheI
again, only three patients died out Of 90 who Ia
been bitten by dogs, the madness OF which WAS ce
tlned TO by the veterinary surgeons OF the variot
communes being death rate OF only o.ld per cen
The total death rate, therefore, was % 10 per cen
Considering that under other treatments the propo
lion OF deaths To patients Is 10 per cent? the aslet
system is shown to he at least twenty three lines
successful as any other hitherto tried. Bnt II
quite another thing TO say that hyiroph0bia hi
been conquered by NJ. pastenr. The disease Is ,
subtle, aud often lies IN the system for such Ion
time before making its appearance, that he won
be bold man who would say even now that an!
thing more tnan flrst ste' had been made to u III
knowledge OF the disease and It's care, Many pc
sons, moreover, who are bitten 10y admittedly rabl
dogs, never suffer any lll,eiieels whatever, snpl
because they are mol nj subjects for the hydropht
bic poison 10 WORK upon, and there may have bee
undue proportion OF these persons among
Pasteur's pailenla. hut on the other hand, out
those who saccumbei, several undoubtedly owe
their death 10 the fearful wounds they had receive
rather than 10 hydr0pb0Dla he Thai AZ II may, the
must be few people who would not endure the pri,
with hnely pointed syringe on ten successive day
which, az Or: Drysdale states, y AL mat Il nece
sary, rather than run the slightest Risk Of death
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