The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-09-11

are so overcrowded by scarlet fever PATIENTS.
more than 5000 being carcd for this week.
that 1t has been necessary to close their doors
against further admissions. 1t Is significant
that the newspapers cay nothing about the
lack Of precaution and preparation. The news
papers laud tho authorities for their activity
and efficiency. congratulate the country upon
It's escape from the invader. and c~riticise
President Harrison and the Americans for
their absurd quarantine regulations.
A Bun reporter who left Humburg on Thurs
any night travelled right through to Flushing.
and thence BY boat to Queenboro and on to
London without the slightest delay on route.
At Haltern. whore we changed for Boxte. a
medlcnl inspector entered our carriage before
we alighted from It. and inquired II We had
been troubled with vomiting or diarrhUa. aud
upon being informed that we were quito vol.
troubled US no more. At Boxtcl. on the Dutch
frontier, the customs officer seized all soil.d
linen in tho baggage OF Hamburg passengers.
took thoir names and addresses. and promised
to send their property on after disinfccting II.
This was the only precaution taken. AtQueen-
boro nobody seemed TO care whether we came
from Hamburg or not. and we travelled on to
London without a question being asked.
A great deal 10 heard in these times about
new weapons for fighting the grent enemy.
Pasteur insists that his newly discovered
cholera virus will. by incubation. provide alb
soluts protection for two months to those who
resort to 1t. He has tried it upon everything
but human beings. and two Of thom. Russian
physicians. have submitted to incubation
without unpleasant results 80 far. Prof. Pas
teur has written to Prince Damrong, brother
Of the King Of Siam, who is interested in his
experiments. asking him to permit one of his
assistants to go to that country and try The
virus upon the inhabitants OF q Siamcse vii
lnge where cholera is endemic.
The agitation In favor of cremation in the
case Of all cholera victims is increasing. Sir
Spencer Wells. one OF the greatest English ex-
perts in germ diseases. sends to the Graphic
this afternoon tho results Of some experiments
which have a startling bearing upon this
branch Of the subject. He says: Some persons
doubt whether poison can be carried through
tho earth for any considerable distance. but
the fact has been experimentally proved
as to saline solutions. A salt OF lithium was
sown over a plot Of land more than 100 yards
distant from a we'll. the water OF which con-
tanned no lithium. Repeated examinations
were made. but 1t was only on the eighteenth
day that it was proved that the solution had
percolated through the soil into the we'll. In
stances Of contamination Of water by animal
Impurities have long been too we'll known. and
now the specific germs OF infective diseases
are known to propagate in the same way.
In the botanic garden Of Lyons flower pots
were filled with earth on June 16. 1891. and
some. earth worms were added in each pot
with some Of the sputa Of tuberculous patients
and fragments OF lung from their dead bodies.
A month afterward 1t was found that the
%earthworms contained tubercle bacilli in large
numbers. and that guinea pigs inoculated with
them soon died with general tuberculosis.
Whatever the baoilli may be. whether
t,harO,,1ar tvphp{H Ar nho1Apotn L. holIoo
buried in the earth 1t is incontestable that
earthworms. everywhere SO numerous and
active. may preserve the bscilli in their bod
les during many months. still living and los
ing nom Of their virulent properties and
power Of rapid termination or reproduction.
"These are the grounds OF which we assert
that bodies after death from cholera ought to
be oremated. not buried"
The Oriental Congress. which has been in
session In London this week. has put
on record . series OF recent uncover
ings OF . dead past which cannot
foil to amaze the civilized world. Records
In imperishable clay and stone. going back
to the worry infancy Of the race OF man. have not
only been brought to light. but the language
and signs In which they are written provo not
unintelligible under the analysis OF modern
scholarship. Tablets thousands OF years old
have been found which bear reference. quite
independent Of the record in Holy Writ.
to tho creation and fall OF man. We
are told by the learned borrowers into the
history Of the dead ages that the Chinese Ian
guago OF unknown origin till now has been
traced distinctly to It's Babylonish source: that
tho Pharoah who was plagued until he let the
children Of Israel depart from Egypt to tho
promised land in 1893 B. c. was not Rameses
H.. but Thothmes ILL.,; that the daugh-
tor Of Pharaoh who rescued Moses
from the bullrushes hns been identified
as Queen Wakara Hatasu. daughter OF
Thothmes l.: that the splendid tomb OF Alex
ander the Great has probably been discov-
cred: that the exact scenes OF some Of the
greatest events in the life Of Christ have boen
more accurately fixed than most visitors to
Palestine have yet learned.
The student OF ancient history will find
more interesting and important items In tho
overwhelming category OF recent discoveries
than those | have named. The narrative COW
ers every nook and corner OF the Old World.
The promises which are held out of stu
pendous revelations almost within reach will
undoubtedly stimulate Oriental exploration
and inquiry almost into a craze.
Not the least interesting and important Of
the papers presented to this Congress OF sa.
wants was that OF Mr.. Gladstone upon Archaic
Greece and tho East. 1t is an achievement
which may well challenge the wonder OF the
world. A man we'll advanced In his ninth de-
cade. whose life is burdsned with the govern
mont OF one Of tho greatest nations Of the
earth. finds time TO prepare a tho.
sis requiring o depth of thought and
Investigation such as only tho best scholars Of
the age have been able to give to tho subject.
1t Ia we'll known that Mr.. Gladstone is one OF
tho best HomoriG scholars o! tho day. He is
an ardent ndnirer OF the Vrrnt mAstor of nn-