Glasgow Courier. — 1864-11-24 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PARASITE OF THE EYE.—In a pater addressed to the Academy of Sciences Dr Guyon, whose curious observations in tropical climates we have often had occasion to record, gives an account of several cases of filaria oculi, a long thread-like worm that nestles in the eyes, where it naturally causes troubled vision and other bad symptoms. This worm is frequently met with under the tropics, and especially in Africa. In one of the cases recorded by Dr Guyon, the patient had two filarias, one in each eye, but which it seems were upon visiting terms with each other, they being occasionally seen together in the same eye. They could pass from one eye to the other with the greatest rapidity through the cellular tissue of the root of the nose. The operator entrusted with the case made a lateral incision in the conjunctive of the left eye at a time when there was a worm in each, and that of the left one was extracted. A few hours later, when he returned to extract that of the right eye, he found it had passed into the left one, whence he extracted it by making a new incision. ..These worms were each from three to four centimetres long. Dr Guyon, at the last sitting of the Academy, produced another .filaria 15 centimetres in length, and preserved in alcohol. It had been extracted from the eye of a negro' a native of Gaboon; though curled up, the whole of its length was not contained in the eye, but lay partly in the adjoining tissues. The extraction is far from easy, the worm being very sensitive, and retiring at the slightest indication of danger; out of six cases observed in America, the operation only succeeded in four. The worm never gets out of itself; for although it causes a certain irritation, and even inflammation, accompanied with watering of the eye, it is never carried so far as to cause a solution of continuity affording an exit to the parasite. There is another kind of filaria, called medinensis, because first observed at Medina; but this parasite finds its way out through the teguments. It was known to the ancients, and is mentioned by Agatharchides of Cnidos in his Pariplus of the Red Sea. This traveller flourished about the year 150 before the Christian era.—Galignani.  "Billy, my boy, cau't you eat a little more ?" Well perhaps I could if I stood up, mother." The Indian names of some of our new war vessels are thus interpreted c—Suwannee, buffalo soup; Shamokin, worn out pipe; Muscoota; musk rat; Winnepec, small pig; Ashuelot, burnt bones; Monocacy, sleeping baby; Mahongo, wounded boar. None of the above are extremely warlike, especially "Sleeping baby" and "worn out pipe."—Atnerican paper.  lit it . The Dundalk Express says that Ribbonism is very rife in that neighbourhood. • A farmer named John M‘Mahon has been found murdered on the public road near Rosslea, in the county of Fermanagh. A beautiful new Presbyterian church, erected at the sole expense of a citizen of Dublin—Mr Alex. Findlater—and presented by him to the congregation of Mary's Abbey of that city, was opened for Divine service an Friday. An "Irish American, named Murphy, has been committed for trial at Athlone, on a charge of endeavouring topersuade four men belonging to the 25th Regiment to desert the service and proceed to New York, with the view of entering the Federal army.  Oil the night of the 16th the cruel and savage outrage of plucking slieep of their wool was perpetrated on four young sheep, the property of the Roman Catholic priest of the parish of Drum. Suspicion at present rests upon one of his reverence's parishioners. The oyster fisheries of the west coast are still a subject of bitter contention. At Sligo violent quarrels have taken place between persons who have attempted to dredge the beds of resident pro. prietors, but have been resisted, as trespassers. It is to be feared that serious consequences will ensue if strong measures be not taken by the authorities to protect private property from encroachment, and have the legal rights of the several parties in the locality clearly defined. An appeal issued by the Rev. Mr Woodlock, rector of the Catholic University, for pecuniary assistance to carry it on, has found its way into the papers. It is addressed, of course, to the Roman Catholic clergy throughout the country, and opens with the modest intimation that he does not expect large contributions from their flocks; a few pounds "each year from every parish in Ireland will, in a short time, endow the institution, and deliver the Catholic people from the dangers of State education."