The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-09-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

FINLAND •ND THE ENDEMIC.  It is interesting to learn how land has warded or the cholera. The flelsingfors correspondent it the ihrify :Vries relates many details of the method. adopted. TM! country is next door to the districts in Russia where ttie cholera is raging. There art several trains a day from St. retersburg, and soldiers come thence by the thousand, and yet with. out any quarantine arrangements the enemy has hitherto been subdued. No trouble or capeese has been lIVAITed. Along the frontier in every town, and along the line, hospitals have been built of redwood boards two layers deep, with asphalt Mt weer', with asphalted ginring arranged with complete drain; through which all substances washed from the doors, &c., Sr, taken to huge boilera, from whence the ret use Howe to the mama. In time teams there are central cholera bureaus where there are a doctor, nurses, ambulances, &c., in consts.•nt attendance. Every house is connected with the telephone, and as soon as is case occurs the patient is taken by ambulance and isolated in the hospital. while everything he or she has been in contact with is disinfected. The great thing however is to prevent the cholera coining, and to avoid this frequent visits are made by the police to every hawse, where every dust.bin and sanitary disorder is immediat ly seen to, cleaned, and disinfected. All cab-at:mils are constantly seen to and idsinfeeteil; and eventhe streets are cleam.d with lime. Everybody has had gratuitous medical advice. Thought quarantine has not been enforced, no boat is allowed to enter a Finnish port until the cholera doctor has passed it as being healthy. Should there be cases ot cholera on board, the patients are directly conveyed to tee hospital, and the boat stopped. Of course the int. portatie a of Igeir g, cid% as .ags, bedd:ng. Lad clothing from ihsti„ i.m stri ly pro:dbiled.  The boiler of the Yankee Doodle, paid to be t.te fastest steam yacht in the world, exploded at Philadelphia, blowing the wassel to piece.. The owner, Mr. William Mcßride, with a parts of guests, had just left her in a small boat, and gni was lying at anchor.  The body of a young lady named Doig, of London, was found on the rocks near Dover on Monday moniing. It is believed to he a case of suicide. Mr. James Bryce, M.P., while travelling by train in the United States, happened to fall into conversation with one of the brakemen. In the course of the talk Ile let out the fact that his name was Bryce. "What! Bryce!" exclaimed the brakeman; "did you write the ' Holy Roman Empire' and 'The American Commonwealth ? ' " "Yes," replied Mr. Bryoe, considerably astonished to find how his fame had found him out. The brakeman looked silently at Mr. Bryce for a moment, overcome with surprise; then, suddenly extending a very dirty paw, he exclaims& in a tone of the heartiest approval, "Shake I "—Lit4rm7 Irforid. Messrs. Longmans will publish early in nu autumn the second volume of D. A. K. H. tioyd'i reminiscences of St. Andrews, dealing with the leaf 25 years, and with persons many of whom are stilt living.  We (Deily Chronicle) hear that Lord Tennyson hai almost completed a new pLay, and that it will be published before Christmas. Nothing has beet settled uto whether the play will be performed before it is issued in book form.