The Portland daily press., 1886-09-25
M. stoto poard If Healtb. in issuing a

The State Beard of Health, in issuing
bulletin of the diseases prevailing in fifteen
towns and cities in the State last week, gives
some very interesting information Tor the
people of Maine, The issue OF such bulle-
tins, if kept up at regular intervals in the
future, is also likely to have some very bene-
fetal effects. Aside from the data that they
may furnish for determining the best sys-
TENS of prevention, they will be very effec-
tive in stimulating the people of the cities
and towns to take precautions against pre-
ventable diseases. The people of no town or
city VIII like to have it appear in an official
bulletin every week or month that diphthc-
ria or typhoid fever, or any other filth dis
ease is prevalent among them. After a town
had been posted in this way for few weeks
is people will appreciate more clearly tina
it is for their interest to obtain the best pos
sible sanitary conditions.
A despatch from Ottawa gives in detail the
stipulations of new treaty which is said to
have been negotiated by Lord Lansdowne,
Governor General of Canada, and Mr.. Bay
ard, the Secretary Of State. So far as the
treaty itself is concerned, it is much such an
one as the Canadian Governor General and
Mr.. Bayard might be expected to negotiate.
1t allows our fishermen the privileges they
formerly enjoyed in Canadian waters, and
in turn makes our markets free to Canadian
products, such as lumber, fish, potatoes and
grain. The Morrison bill, if passed would
not be worse blow to Maine and the rest of
New England than this treaty would be if
ratified. But Mr.. Bayard denies any knowl-
edge such treaty; and it is probable
that it was drawn up by the same enterpris-
ing journalist who, short time ago, sent out
from Ottawa report that Canada had de-
manded the immediate release of the seal
hunters, captured in Behring Sea.
Professor Virgins and the school of proph-
cts to which he belongs have furnished en-
tertainment for many people in North
America for some time. Virgins never pre-
diets any ordinary storm the creations of
his imagination are always calamities
fraught with destruction to life and proper
ty and dismay for whole continents of peo-
pie. But great hurricanes have rather gone
out of style since the Charleston earthquake,
and Virgins has turned his attention to the
more promising field of seismic disturbances.
there will be greater earthquake than ev-
er happened on this continent The line of
quaking is to pass through the Southern
States from east to west and the inhabitants
of those regions are warned to look out for
something fearful. Now this prophecy is
very ridiculous, and by most people is re-
garded as joke, or attempt at joke But
there is no doubt also that many peop>e be
lieve in such wild jokes. 1t is not many
years since ansimilar prophecy of great
storm caused many of the Massachusetts
fishermen to haul up thais, tr,u,e ar; IT arit
w EpooIyro
looked forward with fear and gloom to the
awful day predicted by this same Virgins.
In the present case the alarm occasioned
amcng people in the Southern States is great
enough to become the subject of Geographic
dispatches to northern newspapers So
Virgins, instead of harmless crank, be-
comes tremendous nuisance.