Year: 1871

1t is not so generally known as it
ought to be that human being is liza
BILE to infection from a glandered horse.
Numerous such cases have been record
ed in medical works; and only few
weeks ago Il man named Martin, who
lived in Washington county, Nd, suf-
fered horrible death from this cause.
While attending to horse which had
the CHAMBERS, some of the virus from
the deceased animals nose or mouth
found its way into cut on one of his
thumbs, and shortly afterward he was
taken with spasms, which were sue
ceeded by severe nausea and utter
prostration. Although medical assis-
tance was Immediately procured, and
the man had every reasonable atten-
ton, he lived only few days after the
infection manifested itself. Before dy-
ing his body became mass of ulcers,
and at the end the flesh fell in pieces
from his bones. When horse is found
to be glandered, it should be killed at
once, and proper measures taken to
disinfect ever object that has been in
contact with the animal,


The great tunnel through the Sierra
Nevada is to be five miles long, nine
teen feet high, and twenty-one feet
wide. Its cost is to be $15, 900.
The contractor for the work, Colonel
Won Schmidt, is an engineer of some
renown, whose principal works in this
country have been the excavation Of
the famous San Francisco dry dock,
blasted in ledge of solid rock, and
the demolition of Blossom Rock, San
Francisco Bay, by submarine excava.
ton and blasting. The Sierra tunnel
will permit the passage of the Pacific
Railroad track and canal to supply
San Francisco with water from Lake
Tahoe.


Nature is industrious in adorning
her dominions, and man, to whom this
beauty is addressed, should feel and
obey the lesson. Let him, too, be in,
dustrious in adorning his domain, in
making his home not only convenient
and comfortable, but pleasant. Let
him be industrious in surrounding il
with pleasant objects, in decorating il
within and without with things that
tend to make home the abode Of neat.
ness and order. Ye parents who
would have your children happy, be
industrious to bring them up in the
midst of a pleasant, cheerful and hap
py home.


It was found during the trials oflife-
preservers (so-called) by the Superin-
tending Inspectors at Washington,
that they would not sustain man OF
one hundred and thirty pounds weight
and they decided that hereafter all
life preservrs should contain at last
six pounds Of cork. Thus it appears
that for years past steamboat travellers
have been trusting to what are mere
shows in the way of life-saving appa
ratus, and that so far from aiding q
person in the water to sustain himself
they would be far more likely to drag
him to the bottom.


In many of the manufactures IL
Massachusetts steam engines are being
added, to be used in connection witt
the water power. A town with a wa
ter power can accommodate twice al
many mills, and, at the same time, il
the event of any drought or other ac'
cident to the water power, the MILL
are guarded against a stoppage which
so often materially affects their bust
ness.


A cheerful sevant has discovered
that mosquitoes are proyidentia
guard against disease, upon the sup
position, that in summer the human
system is peculiarly liable to fever, anC
the insects, by depicting the quantity
! Of blood, get up counter irritation