The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-25

a PHYSICIAN tells the Cincinnati Times,
Star that the widespread fear OF disease
germs is largely groundless. Every
thing he says. :" is full OF germs or
crusted with them, but every germ is not
harmful. Every disease germ on the
body does not produce disease. II it
did there would not be a person on the
face of the earth tomorrow. People
lived before disease germs were known
and were as healthy ms they are TO day.
They lived as carefully as we do-per-
haps more SO. We cannot avoid contact
with disease germs, but we can do what
is better, strengthen the body so that it
resists them as easily rs lion can flea.
Some scientists pretend to deplorc a
lack of precaution people take against
germs Ii is simply because the people
see, despite theories, that every germ
doesn't produce sickness any more than
every man is murderer. Every man
can possibly be one. but we would not
be justified in going armed on that ac'
count"
LIEUT.. Robertson, L. :. A., has just
returned TO Los Angeles after making
trip with three companions in Il small
boat down the Colorado River, from
Yuma To the Gulf of California, to ascer-
tain il the channel could be made navig-
able for commerce. The river. he says,
changes its course in many places every
year at the time of the June rise, shifting
its bed often as much as six or eight
miles 10 left or right, aud 1t would be i'm
possible To impound the water SO rs to
secure a regular navigable channel. The
tides, too, about the mouth of the river
are most crratic; one of its features Is the
great bore, which, near the full of the
moon every month, sweeps in solid wall
of water several feet high, up the upper
part of the Gulf and twenty miles into
the mouth of the Colorado. An attempt
Ia float any boat in the rivers mouth at
that time would be fatal. At the mouth
of the river the party found the ruins of an
old shipyard and the decaying bulks OF
five steamers, half sunken in the mud, the
relics of an attempt made some twenty
three years ago TO establish line of
steamers to ply up the river to Fort Yuma.
IL a man takes ride of the average
length, which is almost II miles, in n
railway train in this country, what Is his
chance of getting killed asks the Pitts
burg Times. According to the interest
| ing report OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission. il is one chance in l,i0l,
0i0. II young man OF 20, Tilted by his
sweetheart, should determine to commit
suicide without sin by getting accident
ally killed in railway accident he
might do it. Certainly he might do it.
! II he were To got on n train as n passen.
ger and ride. ride, ride at the rate Of 30
miles an hour, day and night every hour
of every day and every day in the year,
if he had average luck ho would cventu-
ally get surcease from the gnawing pain
at his heart somewhere in the course of
passing over -, 5i2, 252 miles. for ao
cording to these official figures one pas
sengcr is killed for every 5,5i2, 2S2 miles
that passenger is carried. According
to these figures he would be injured in
some way eight and three-quarters times
or eight times and bad scare. IL is lit
tie better than one chance In three that
he would come 10 an untimcly grave in
consequence of collision, but IL no pre-
ferred to have the train run oil the track
TO kill him he wonld have only one
chance in nine to be satisfied. His pos
siblc journey would have taken him
around this weary, world and past the
place where she went to housekeeping
with the other fellow 1, ,421 times, and
would have cost him, mt the rate of 3
cents a mile and 81. 80 night for n
sleeping berth, 81 l,Os7, O1G.48. In this
melancholy state OF mind he wouldn't
care how his shoes looked, and the porter
needn't disturb his grief for a daily
| quarter.