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He brought suit against the city for $1,000, and engaged Hamlin as counsel. Hamlin won his case, but the city appealed to the Supreme Court. Here, also, the decision was for Hamlin's client. After settling up the claim, Hamlin sent for his client and handed him $1. "What's this?" asked the Englishman. "That's your damages, after taking out my fee, the cost of appeal, and several other expenses," said Hamlin. The Englishman looked at the dollar, and then at Hamlin, "What's the matter with this," he said; "is it bad?" Grant Had Faith in Sherman.-A graphic account of how he carried to Grant before Richmond the news of General Sherman's advance through North Carolina on his march to the sea in 1865, is told in a recent issue of Harper's Weekly by Adjutant S. H. M. Byers, of the Fifth Iowa Infantry. After a perilous trip he finally reached Grant's headquarters at City Point. 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Commander Peary's exploring ship Roosevelt sails from New York on its search for the North Pole. July 17.-Elihu Root, special counsel for Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia, advises him that he can bring criminal prosecutions against certain municipal officials. A wave of extreme heat, extending from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic coast, kills scores of persons in the large cities. July 18.-John Hyde, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture, which is involved in the cotton leak scandal, resigns. The shares of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, bought from H. H. Hyde by Thomas F. Ryan are placed in control of the Equitable trustees. July 19.-Elihu Root takes the oath of office as Secretary of State. Mr. Morton dismisses Thomas Jordan, comptroller of the Equitable, for refusing to explain the society's loan of $685,000 from the Mercantile Trust Company. July 20. The New York Assembly fails to adopt a resolution to remove Justice Warren B. 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Getting Even.-During the South African War, when that country was under martial law, every letter which was sent home had to pass through the hands of the Press censor. A private in the Yorkshire Volunteers had sent four or five letters home, telling his parents about the doings of the regiment, which portions had been obliterated by the censor, and were therefore unieadable on their arrival at the destination. He decided to get square with the censor, and at the foot of the next letter he wrote the following words: "Please look under the stamp." At the censor's office the letter was opened and read as usual. The officer in charge spent some time in steaming the stamp from the envelope so that he could read the message which he was certain he would find there. At last his patience was rewarded; but his feelings can be better imagined than described when he read these words: "Was it hard to get off?"-Tit-Bits. A really excellent manual by Edwin J. 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It is therefore assumed, unless notification to discontinue is received, that the subscriber wishes no interruption in his series. Notification to discontinue at expiration can be sent in at any time during the year. PRESENTATION COPIES.-Many persons subscribe for friends, intending that the paper shall stop at the end of the year. If instructions are given to this effect, they will receive attention at the proper time. TOPICS OF THE DAY. YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS. THE HE composure displayed throughout the country last week upon learning of the presence of yellow fever in New Orleans was in marked contrast with the wild state of alarm created in former years by the least suspicion of the appearance of this dreaded plague. Altho the board of health of New Orleans by July 30 had reported the discovery of 260 cases of the disease, from which 55 deaths had resulted, the city was, as one paper expresses it," rather annoyed than disturbed" by the unpleasant situation. Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, it is true, immediately adopted precautionary measures, and the old style shot-gun quarantine was enforced against many places from which infection was likely to spread, but nevertheless business went on as usual in the Crescent City, while there was no sign of a stampede anywhere in the South. The newspapers were foremost in the work of allaying all fearful apprehensions. Along with their appeals for calmness they gave accounts of the nature of the disease and what science claims as to the discovery of its cause and prevention. Thus, in encouraging and cautioning its readers, The Daily Picayune, of New Orleans, says: 'The mosquitoes being here, the business of science is to kill them, and this is being done. Cisterns are being screened and oiled, gutters and cesspools are being oiled, and all infected or supposed infected premises are being fumigated with sulphur. As for the people themselves, they can protect themselves perfectly by anointing hands and faces and other parts exposed to mosquitoes with a lotion made of alcohol and such essential oils as pennyroyal, lavender, cedar, and the like. The cost is small. Houses should be screened and the use of mosquito-bars should be strictly attended to." WHOLE NUMBER, 798 And the people of New Orleans now seem to feel that there is no longer any reason for wild alarm when yellow fever makes its appearance, provided the necessary precautionary measures are taken against it. The press reports relate that there was no panicky feeling even among the Italians, where the disease first took hold, but that all set themselves calmly and vigorously to work and did all that the board of health called upon them to do. Moreover there is no indication that any of the wealthy or wellto-do are trying to flee from the infected city. In commenting upon this unusual composure and almost indifference of all classes, the New York World remarks: "Twenty years ago, or even a few years less than twenty, the presence of yellow fever anywhere along the old lines in the South would have been the signal for a stampede. The remembrance of the terrible epidemic of 1878, with its death-list of 5,000 in New Orleans and Memphis alone, was then fresh in mind. Medical research and sanitary progress had afforded no practical guarantee against a repetition of that frightful reign of the plague. The public attitude toward the present outbreak in the Louisiana metropolis is eloquent of the change that has come." This mosquito, technically named the Stegomyia Fasciata, which the citizens of New Orleans are now fighting so industriously, is bred in countless swarms in the marshes around that city. The theories advanced by scientists as to the part it plays in yellow-fever plagues are not, however, implicitly believed by everybody. The New York Herald, which is a supporter of the theories, gives an interesting account of this insect, and says: "The greatest danger in this regard is with the new cases of fever, as the mosquito can only be infected during the first three days of the patient's sickness, and, being free, may thus be enabled to scatter the virus broadcast before a correct diagnosis of the original malady can be determined. This is always the history of the first start of the disease in any particular locality, and is the strongest possible argument in favor of the most prompt isolation of every suspicious case. The same precaution applies to quar antine against infected ports. The period of incubation being from three to six days very much simplifies this method of protection. The infected mosquito, however, does not become dangerous until twelve days after biting the yellow-fever patient, but may continue in that state for a period of fifty days or more, showing the great importance of this insect as a factor in the fever problem and the necessity of being sure of its absolute extermination at the very start of any threatened epidemic." The Brooklyn Eagle, on the other hand, is not inclined to believe that the Stegomyia Fasciata is the only factor in the spread of yellow fever. It admits that every time the insect draws blood from a fever patient it is likely to implant the virus of the disease in the next sufferer it visits, but The Eagle then continues: "Experiments in the Marianao camp, in Cuba, proved clearly enough the agency of the mosquito in carrying yellow fever, but occurrences in New Orleans suggest the inquiry as to whether the germ may not possibly be carried by flies or by other means as well, whether it lives in water, whether or no it may not survive the frosts in congenial soil, possibly at a considerable depth, as a result of old interments. Most of the dead in New Orleans are intombed above the ground to be sure, as the city stands on a sponge of bog, and the escape of poisonous exhalations from the coffins would be easier than in the cases of inhumation. Again, it may be that the disease originates spontaneously in towns of defective drainage, or in swamps where decay of organic matter is greater than the power of the superficial vegetation to absorb and convert it." |