San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-12
The 1ai1u Eight.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IL, 1892.
Features of Cholera in Paris.

Features of Cholera in Paris.
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
/ note what the American papers
announce certain mum Der of cases of
cholera in Paris daily. So far we have
not had u single case of genuine Ash
attic cholera in the whole city. This
simple fact that the king of Greece
has been making quite a prolonged
stay here, and royal persOnsges are
so invariably fenced around with all
manner of precautions that it is GER
tain he never would have come to
Paris at all had there been the
presence of any serious epidemic
to be signslised. He has, by the
way, been enjoying himself inn
mensely, much more after the fashion
of an ordinary tourist Than that OF q
sovereign on his travels. His great
delight has been to slip out incOgnito,
leaving his suit behind, and to
promenade on the boulevards, look
iNg in the shop windows and
making purchases just as though he
were not, besides being the ruler of
Greece, the brother inlaw of the
Emperor of Russia and of the Prince
of Wales. He is q very genial gentle.
men, and made himself so agreeable |
to President Carnot when that per-
sonage came to call upon him that
the visit, instead of lasting, as official |
calls are expected to do, Just ten min
Utes, was prolonged tor over halt an
hour.
A curious fact 1T 10 be noted in con- |
nection with the choleraic disrrhea |
which has existed first In the gu burbs |
OF Paris and lately in the city itself, |
throughout the hole summer. 1t is |
a perfectly manageable malady, ex.
Qcept when it attacks confirmed |
drunkards. In such instances nine |
out of ten OF the cases prove fatal. |
Exactly the reverse takes place when |
sober persons happen TO get 1t, nine |
out of ten recovering.
1t is not 9 isy for American trave-
lers to get home just now owing to
the cholera scare, and neither is it |
very comfortable for them to 90 JOUR-
neying about Europe. 1 heard the !
other day rather dismal history |
concerning an American gentleman |
who undertook to make little tour |
through Germany during the past |
few weeks. He went first TO Cologue |
via Brussels, and he and all the rest |
OF his fellow-passengers were lUmiga.
ted after crossing the Belgian from
tier. The was evidently under strict
sanitary surveillance, for one OF the |
travellers was seized with an at
tack OF diarrhes, and my country
man, though perfectly we'll, was sup |
posed TO be the sufferer and was |
watched in consequence. When the |
passengers reached Cologne they |
were all refumigated. to my friends |
intense annoyance. So, to get out of
the way of that sort of things, he
started to take q trip up the Rhine,
hoping in that way to be set free from
any suspicion of infection. But his
hopes proved delusive.
He had evidently been set down by
the authorities as fugitive from
Hamburg and a conveyer of infection,
for on arriving at Msyence he was
seized and shut up in an alright
closet, and there tumigated for the |
third time, with some noisome COM |
pound, the odor of which was so
abominable that it brought on q vic.
lent attack OF nausea That was
enough He was immediately de-
clared to have developed the preliml-
nary symptoms OF cholera was car
red off to the hospital, and was i'm.
prisoned for twenty-fOur hours in an
isolated room, in spite of all his pro.
testations as to his perfect health and
his total innocence of any communlca.
ton whatever either with Ham bug
or Antwerp Finally he was released,
aud ne made the best OF his way to
Paris, where ne warns all American
tourists that he meets to avoid going
near German territory.