, 1890-08-02

so many reports TO the effect that cases
of cholera had occurred in various parts of
France have had to be contradicted, that it
is az well to endorse these dt malls with the
statement made at the recent meeting Of
the Consultative Committee OF, Public
Health-that not "a single case Of cholera
has so far been noticed throughout the
length and breadth Of the country. Drs.
Charrin ana Meter, Who had been sent by
the Minister of the Interior to Crrbere and
Hendaye for the purpose of organising the
different stations, also gave an excellent
account Of the manner in which the sur
veillance was being conducted on the
frontier, and it is reaSsuring to note that
the Committee is not to reasspmble until
the 21&t inst, unless matters should take
unexpectedly and suddenly a very bad
turn; meanwhile further instructions have
been issued Uy the French Government
with % view to providing for all eventual
ties. Thus, the Minister Of Public Works
has sent % circular to the railway COM
panies setting forth that if a traveller com.
ing from Spain be taken i'll on the journey,
and compelled to stop at some station on
the road, the watchfulness of the autlori.
lies must be redoubled in the interests of
The public health, and this cannot be done
unless Tire mayor of the place be immedi-
ately informed Of the presence of the suf-
fereT. Whenever, therefore, a passenger
Alight is from a train before arrival al the
place for which he has taken a ticket, the
c0%mpany's agents are to question him as to
tie point VIII ence he started on his Journey.
and if it traTrspires that he has travelled
from Spain notice is to be given at once 70
the mayor. in order that a doctor may pro-
ered forthwith TO y careful examination of
the individual. Three hundred persons
who have arrived in Paris from the other
side OF the Pyrenees are at the present
moment visited daily by medical men APP
pointed to this duty.-Daily Telegraph.
Not unintereSting nor devoid Of material
for reflection is the case Of NJ. Leckat. q
bankrunt, wEO has been condemned to two
months Imprisonment by a Paris tribunal
for orcana or rrast and embezzlement he
wah Oh his gay to wealth when in an evil
moment he FIJI irtO the bands of sharpers.
He had formerly been a gentEeman's serv-
ant, ard by judicious speculation on the
BOurse had made four thousand pounds.
This sum he soon doubled by setting up a
bank i. the Malesherbes district, his chef
dep1SitOrs being cooks, ch~ambermafIs, &c.
The fourishing condition of NJ. Lechatis
business soon attracted the notice of some
Lapg9rs-on at the B0urse, who formed
themselves into a band for the purpose of
bleeding him. They induced him to lend
large sums to utterly insolvent persons,
AZ! obtained high commissions thereby
themselves. This went OH for several
months, at the end of which NJ. Lechat
found himself to the bad in his accounts.
His money was all gone; so he dipped into
that ut his ancillary depositors, until at
last he had to suspend payment, and be-
come a bankrupt. He attributes his down
fall to ambition, for if he had refused to
give ear to the Establishments of the rOgues
who persuaded him that under their guild
ance, he was on the way to eclipse the
Rothschilds and the P6reires, he might still
be comfortably running his own little bank
for servants on the Boulevard Malesherbes.
Ibid.