Morning journal and courier., 1893-06-12

year. EoFoI ana ulpuknoIlh ces6b nave Out- run all previous records in London, and, taking infectious diseases as e whole, the metropolitan district furnished 48, ,074 cases in 1899. against 26, ,522 in 1891, and 20. .7s5 in 1890.
 The recent law passed by the Massachu- setts legislature, providing that after Aug ust 1, 1896, the tires on the wheels of draught wagons used in that State shall be from three to five inches in width, is 6 practical step toward road reform Such tires tend to make good roads, serving in a measure as road rollers; and as the new law does not go into effect within three years, it will infiot no special hardship upon the owners of wagons.
 We believe that will written on a eel lar door with . piece of chalk WAS declared valid. Now a curious will Is to be placed on. record in Louisville, Kentucky. It was written by young woman who re- gently committed suicide by taking poison. In the last sgonies of death she had scrawled her parting injunctions to her friends In this world on the pillow with dull pencil. This pillow-case is to be regularly recorded and filed.
 An interesting charity is that of the Summer camp for tenement-house chil- dren in Piasa Valley near St. Louis. The society known as the Kings Daughters originated 1t. In character 1t is strictly non-sectsrisn. Mothers who desire to send their children to the camp, and are not known to the society. have only to apply to the police captain of their dis trict, and if they are found to be too poor to take their little ones out of town, ar engagements are made to give them holi- day at the camp. It often happens that children are too poorly clad to be present able, in which case the Kings Daughters furnish them with the needful clothing. The buildings at the camp are rough, but clean, we'll drained, and comfortable. As the children expect to live .out-of-doors, frolic on the grass, and play in the woods, the finish of their sleeping quarters Is of little moment. A physician and nurses are to be on the ground prepared to care for the sick. The camp opens July 1.
 The announcement is made in Paris of new method of artificial respiration in cases of suspended animation. It consists in drawing the tongue we'll out of the pre- viously opened mouth, and then imparting kr xhak orcxa,, anaroafio and rbvfbmio hack ward and forward movements, this pro ceeding having the effect of stimulating the respiratory reflex through the traction on the tongue and the excitation of its base. In carrying out these movements, a spoon, the handle of knife or any such instrument is utilized for the double pur- pose of keeping the jaws apart and press- ing on the base of the tongue; the latter is then seized between the finger and thumb which, to avoid slipping, are enveloped in e handkerchief-and pulled forcibly forward out of the mouth. The organ Is then subjected to the to and-fro move ments, some eighteen to the minute, until the operators efforts have proved effectual. The simplicity and facility of application in this case are at once apparent, and, ss compared with other methods, this is claimed to bs more reliable, succeeding even when all hope has seemingly passed.
 Considerable interest has been excited in military circles in Vienna by new form of field hospital, a specimen of which, ff- teen metres long by about six broad, has been ordered by the Austrian War Office for trial 1t the camp at Bruck, on the Leiths It was inspected the other day st the large exhibition building in the Prater by delegates from the Red Cross Society and Samaritan Congress, the inventor, Dr. Hofgraff, personally explaining Its con struction and giving practical denonstra- ton of the justice of his claim to be able. with party of eight men. to set it up and fit 1t for the reception of patients in little more than an hour. The whole structure rests upon sleepers or beams, which are looked together by iron bolts running through the series of uprights which support the roof. These sleepers are grooved to receive the panels forming the sides of sthe hospital.
 The latter, as we'll as the sections into
 which the roof Is divided, are exactly simi
 lar and interchangeable, a circumstance
 which greatly simplifes the setting up oi the structure. They consist of a wooder framework filled with e light but durabl, waterproof competition of cellulose and can vas. The whole is held together in such manner as to resist the strongest wind b!
 means of series of iron rods on the prin ciple of tent ropes. One of the chief sd
 vantages of this interesting invention |
 that it can be put together without the us | of tools.