The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-01

which has been or n likely 10 be the
cause OF serious Illness within the dis
trict. Mr.. Chaplin of the board said he
hoped IL would be possible for him to
Jake action at no distant day which
would be satisfactory. During the dis
cussion the fact was brought out that
the official report issued i'm 1896 by the
medicaf department of the local gov
nme board upon the conditions I'M
der which oysters and other edible mol
fuses were cultivated and stored along
the coast of England and Wales con-
ciusively proved that in many cases
oysters and other shellfish were stored
and fattened unde conditions render
ing them liable to sewage contamina-
ton OF the grossest kind and that the
consumption Of shellfsh derived from
these sources was a DANCE 10 the public
health. Local authorities had no means
of preventing the sale Of shellhsh within
their districts. even though they had
the clearest evidence that their con-
sumption had been the cause of typhoid
fever and that they had been derived
from a source known TO be contaminat-
ed with sewage.
DIR. Niven said the result OF his own
experience as medical officer for Man
chester was that i'm that city some
thing like one-tenth of the cases of
typhoid fever had been found to be
closely associated with a previous con-
sumption of oysters or mussels. 1t was
a fact that other shellfish than oysters
such as cookies and mussels and peri
winkles-were very largely indeed con-
sumed i'm Manchester and Lancashire
generally and that great danger was
run from contamination in these she'll
fish other than oysters. The present
condition of the oyster trade ought not
to be allowed to continue, even IL they
could not directly prove those diseases
arose from il.
DIR. Hope said this matter has engaged
the attention of the health committee
of Liverpool and they had evidence as
to disease having been spread by sew
age-contaminated shellfish. In Liver
pool they had suffered from fish other
than oysters. Large numbers of mussels
and cookies were brought into Liver
pool and when exposed for sale were
contaminated with sewage. Bacteri-
illogical examination proved that, but
il was too late to enable the articles to
be dealt with under the public health
act.
The Royal Asiatic society Is about
to publish an exceedingly interesting
account of recent discoveries in India
i'm connection with the early history of
Buddhism, and especially of the great
founder of the faith, Gautama Buddha
The authors are Vincent Smith of the
iildldh ' Ill ~ Noots poti
leading Buddhist scholars. The chief
discoveries are three-Gautama's actual
birthplace, the home of his early years
and certain relics which appear beyond
doubt to have been his property. All
three we're found at different places not
far apart i'm what is now the Nepaul
terai, close to the borders of Oudh.
The discoveries were due to certain
pillars of the famous Emperor Asoka,
who lived about $50 b. c., or more than
two centuries after Buddha. Asoka
erected a pillar, the discovery of which
established that this was the birth
place. or at any rate had been accepted
as such in the earliest ages of the faith.
The home of the great teacher was
kapilavastu. a small state of which his
father was rajah. The place has long
been sought after by scholars. and here
again the discovery in the jungle of an
other pillar of Asoka's pointed out the
spot. The remains consist of brick
tumuli. The relics were found just
outside the British frontier, and con-
sist of some fragments of bone in a
wooden vessel which is supposed to
have been the begging bowl of eau
tama when he took up a life of pov-
erty. The bow and bones were in a
massive vessel followed out of a huge
block of sandstone which was buried
under many feet of solid masonry. Be
side the wooden bowl the sandstone re-
ceptacle contained a finely finished bowl
of rock crystal. All these were filled
with jewels of various kinds. deposited
there in honor of the relics. and an in
scription written i'm characters of the
age of Asoka states that the relics were
those Of Buddha himself.
Further, the writers believe they have
discovered in the same ~neighborhood
the site of the city of Eravasti. in
which Gautama spent many years of
his ministry. When the news of these
discoveries has penetrated among the
Buddhists of China, Japana, Corea and
Cochin China it is sure to create much
excitement. and this portion of the Ne
paul teri will be visited first by schol-
airs and priests from these countries
and then by Buddhist devotees. so that
i'm time the place may become a sort of
Buddhist Mecca.
A fragment of the Antarctic continent
has just been added to the collection of
rocks i'm the miner gallery of the Ma
tional History museum. 1t Is probably
the only specimen of the kind i'm Eu-
rope n has been presented to the
museum by DR.. John Murray of the
Challenger. II consists of a piece of
glaciated rock or Gneiss distinctly indi-
cative of continental land which was
dredged up by the Challenger from di-
atom ooZe at a depth of $50 fathoms
in the Antarctic ocean. There can be
no doubt about it's having been trans
ported by means of an iceberg from
land situated toward the south pole.