Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-01-11
SCIENTISTS FIND
Sthat Typhoid Germs Are Bred in Oys- ters by Sewage.


 ters by Sewage.
 A scare was caused in England some kyear1sa ago by the statement that oys- ENYWere active disseminators oi ty- 6odd fever. The consumption in er- Ton of what are invariably referred to n tho country papers as luscious bi- ra1ves" thereupon fell off 50 per cent The cockney, alive to his opportuni- des, refused to buy oysters for hls yweethcart, on the ground that they were dangerous. As oysters are very Expensive in Great Britain anyhow. 3cople were easily convinced cf their wholesomeness The reduction in sOnsumptioE caused rapid fall ID prices. It also injured the American sxportation of Blue Points to England Profs Herdman and Boyce went to live among oysters of Lancashire to find put if they are really so dangerous They looked into the cause of the color 3f green oysters. "The green hue,' they picturesquely say in their report ri8 equally familiar to the man who raises them for the market, to the one who raises them from their bed with a pair Of rakes, and also to him wbo raises them out of their own ju ces from the half shell by means of sll- yer trident. This coloring has been Attributed variously to metals, vcge- table coloring matter, bile pigment and the pigment of diatoms." The inves- tigations of the learned oyster sharps however, yield the fact that the green co1or is not always due to the same sanse One variety is caused by COD per. This appears true of ths Ameri- can green oyster. In other varieties iron is found, while a diatom, or moss, Is Suspected as a cause to still others. The American green oysters are ire. quently thin and have shrunken livers. The contamination of oyster beds by sewage and the results of experimental needing of oysters with matter laden with typhoid fever germs are taken up. Oysters from the vicinity of sew ers contain bacteria. Those that have imbibed typhoid bacilli have in them germs which can be cultivated from them fourteen days after infection.- New York Journal
 AMERICAN LOOKING GLASSES this Country Now Imports but Few
 Mirrors and Trade Is Increasing.
 Most of the "frenca" mirrors bought in the United States today are made here. Very little looking glass is im- ported now compared to a decade ago. The tables are gradually turning. The European nations do not see them. Delves in American mirrors, but the Central and South Americans are very partial to the America looking glasses, anc this country Is doing large ex- port business to that quarter. Penn Bylvania and Indiana furnish most of the glass which Is turned into Ameri. can mirrors at present, but plate glass factories that can turn out a quality of glass suitable for the use of mirror manufacturers are springing up very rapidly in several of the eastern rzates. The American glassmakers have finally succeeded in turning out D superior quality of clear white glass which makes as fine mirrors as can be OOuEAI III ally part Ol Lu0 WOIlu. uo leading looking glass makers have found this cut and they import very E.ttle glass for their use. Not more than one-tenth of the mirrors made in this country last year were made of Imported glass, whereas a few years ago nearly all the American mirror makers were compelled to go abroad for their glass. In the matter of frames, the American mirrors arc now put up quite IS richly as any of the foreign creations. The multiple mirror, in which one can see one's Image from al, sides and angles, is strictly an American creation, and has proved a big success with mer- chants, especially clothteis and ladies' fusnishers. AS for size, larger mirrors - rzzS- n essa sss eass essszass-e cs1sss- eas;zas4 wore ever attempted in Europe.-~NeH Fork Times.
 Where GoIdfisb Are Propa gated
 About three miles south of St. Jos.