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Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD. VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

SUMMER DRINKS.

FRUIT SYRUPS, In Bottles at 75 Cents.

AERATED WATERS.

D. C. & Co.'s LIQUEUR AND OTHER WHISKIES.

CLARETS. MEDOC.

Per Case, Plots.......

Per Case, Quarts

$5.50 $5.00

ST. GERMAIN.

Per Cake, Pinta.......

Per Case, Qaris

..$7.50 .$7.00

ST. ESTEPHE

Per Case, Quarts.$7.50

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 14th July, 1894.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABISHED AD. 1841.

WATSON'S

IMPROVED CARBO-CAMPHYLENE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1894.

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ITALY AND ANARCHY. The Italian Chamber hot named a bill. specially framed to enable the Government to deal firanly with the Anarchists.

THE TYPHOON.

Early this morning the aspect of the weather, which for the previews twenty-four hours had been threatening, had by no means improved, and by 10 o'clock this forenson there could no longer be any doubt that the typhoon, reported porth-west | of Manila yesterday, was rapidly approaching this colony. At 10.45 am, a black cone was holsted on board the Victor Emanuel, indicating that's typhoon was then to the southward and within 300 miles of the colony. Since that hour the anal squally typhoon weather has been experienced, and most of the small native craft and cargo-boats have sought shelter in the various bays and creeks in the neighbourhor 1,

In his weather forecast to-day the Acting Director of the "Obserwatory writen !—"On the

DURING last month, 29,955 tong of coal, valued at you 103,15093, were exported from Moji.

Jones Where did you get all that money? Jinx-Got a damfool to endorse my note and then bad a good friend to diecvent It!

THE CORl-mine oprietors in Kloshlo bare jointly exeed to suspted the export of coal, except la falfilment of xoding contracts.

Out-

Mr. Stuffey I have a little money to lend

Broken Thank Jerusalem, let me have ten shékels immediately i

(Geta it, of course.)

TWENTY-FIVE thousand spindles are to be run in

news, and the colony is unanimously of optalon that several members of this non- derpt Council of Ten might follow the example of dear old Elijah without belog very greatly miss.).

Frofesof Kitasato left for Japan by the Varond This alterncon,

The latest ofisilretains are as follow:--- Fram neon yesterday until noon to-day-

New Deaths Disch, Rem. under cxse.

cured calmant,

rods with rounded ends which are readily stained by the ordinary aniline dyes; the poles being stained darker than the middle part, especially in blood preparations, and

presenting a caosula sometimes well marked, sometimes indistinct, The bacilll found in the spleen are best stained by a solution of methyl blue. I am at present unable to say whether or so 'Gram's double- staining method can be employed. I shall ray at upon this on future occasion.

The bacli show very little movement, and thecrown in the incubator, in beef ter, make the me llum somewhat cloudy. The growth of the bicilli is strongest on bloc serem at the normal temperature of the human body (37 deg. ander these conditions they develop 1xurlantly, and

and are moist in consistence and colour: they do not 1 qulfy the serum. Os at-agar jelly (the Deaths from the outbreak (9th May) up to best is good glycerine agar) they also grow Jaly roth, noon,2.387; grand total, 2,189. freely. The different colonies are of a whitis

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companies once held by opulent spec/stor either in 11 eir interest er in Gust, are in pawa— in bank strong-rooms? Is it not a fact that thousands of tons of imported goods are vir gally in pawn in the godowns of the colony a the present time owing to Chinese Sayers having evaded their obligations by

skipping off to the mainland r volc-stricken on account of the plague? Is it not a fact that the colony

In which we live and more and have our telog in itself pawned to the Im-rial authorities for paltry zcoooo, and that it will soon be up to

Է the neck in debt owing to a freak loan bains float:1 with a view to meeting the exronics incurred in connection with the

test still to midst? Almost everybody and every company in the colony is to debi and mortgaged up to the hiit, life policies in many es being held by iral Shyl-cks of varicus cre 3s and colours as collateral security for money advance to impove shed traders and basic specalstors. In short, the colony and the majority of the prople resident here are practically bankrupt and Credit, and unfortunately are exling eblefly upon the prospects of the near future, owing to the existence of the plague are snything but encouraging, and goodness knows what the end of all this will be. Of course the Imp-rial authorities will see to it that when diven to

The following are the returns of admissions, extremes we do not mortgage this ill-favoured 20th at 10.27 .m., Black South Cons holsted, partent in a word.kaned cloud that appearstwerty-four hours eading 5 o'clock yesterday deaths, etc., at the Lal-chi-kok pest-house for the "Isle of Fragrant Streams to Russis or even

every evenlog near the "Great Bear," lying northe soon-Admissions, 4. (2 from Kennedy. Chins, the friend and Oriental ally of Great

east and south-west. They also recognise that town); death, 1; discharged, &; 17 forwarded Delizin, But as far as Individual traders

with Chins. Fod

It means victory for Japan fo the coming wat

to Canton; remaining under treatment, 44. merchants are concerned the shuation presents sundry and very serious aspects and it (berefore :hoves one and all to stand firmly by the side of the few whe, having impo tant faterests at stake in this part of the world, are striving to bilog about radical administrative reforms tending towards the * minimum, the reduction of taxation to abolition of unnecessary offices, and a reasonable constitutional representation in the local Parlia- | Ir was Korruth who seld that the unspoken

Long ere this the control of purely word never does harm.

ment affairs should have been entrusted to

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At to 37 a.m, depression Increasing in faten- fallfog. Strong east winds with showery and alty to the south of Hongkong. Barometer

squally weather."

When we went to press at 5 p.ms, the b-romster was still falling.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

AccORDING to a Jananc e native paper there are 1,768 tarel ners in Kobe, Including Chinese.

THE silver mines of Polesi în Bolivia are sold to have produced nvre fico,000,000 of precious metal sfoce their discovery.

a cation-mill to be recte I shortly at Kaka, Okayama-ken by a company which start business with a capital of a quarter of a million yan. THE Sourabaya Courant calls attention to Mabammedan revival in progress in Java, and seca la ita pol'tler danger in the near future from resulting increase of taxaticism among the Javanese.

SOM* clever I-panese have discovered a war

THE only thing noteworthy In the Victoria Recreation Club reratch four-pared boat race to rowed at Kowl w to-morrow sfernoon is the singolar fact that out of the sixteen comsitors only three, or at the most four, are Britishers. So it seems that even in manly sports Hongkong Is fast becoming a foreign colony. ACCORDING to the vernacular papere, elaborate preprations to leave the country are going on

is Distinguished by a White Label in addition į state of affi could be worse iban the pissent mines, left for Singapore by the Wingsang this | Reziment who committed suicide by shooting

to the Red One which States that

• Municipal Council composed of the chosen representatives of the people who, it is but fair to a:sume, could not possibly have tackled the plague to a more fatuous manner than the

Government, I cal

and would, fu all human probability, have mach better than the acquitted themselves representatives of an effete Imprialism, which fnists us in the sale payers the burden of supraling a namt r of bare-brained Boswells who pertinaciously cling to the aprop-strings of Downing Street auto- crats. Nothing

and it is within the bounds of reacan to astume that the essner the ratepayers oblain a voice in their own affaires the te

better will it be for them in the end. Time, the revealer that the day has passed when the mischievous blundering and blustering of Downleg Str.st incompetents can be tolerated, and the Imy sal revises the Constitution of the colony at an early date and in the manner indicated in the Petition recently forwarded to the House of Commons.

MR. BLAMEY, the manager of the Panjom Co.'s

afternoon en route to Pahang.

up to 5 pm. day-At Wah branch locleding to the Serber Hause) new case, ; death since, nff: sent to Centon la janke, nil; sent to Lal-chl-kok, nil; total remaining under treatment, 53,

LAI-CHI-KOK RETURNS.

of a yellowish grey

D'uish glances, under the microscope they par moist and in rounded patches with } ve

eneven eiges-at first

-at first they appear everywhere as if piled up with 'glass wool, later on as

wif having derse, large centres, ■ cover-glass preparation made from a cultivation on agar- agar, and, after having been stained, is observed under the microscope long threads of bacilli are sen, which might, by careless inspection, be mistaken for a coccus chalo, but are recognised with certainly as 'threads of bacill' under closer observation,

Professor KITASATO ON THE ordinary temperature after a few days, they

PLAGUE.

S. Kitasato for the following preliminary notice We are indebted to the courtesy of Professor of the bacillus of the bubonic plague which for weeks past has been raging in Hongkone and the surrounding distric's with such deadly effect. Frofessor says: Wing under date Hongkong, July 7.b, the

Werly this year (1891) an epidemic of bubonic pl-que brake out in the south of Chios and Canton, from which city the disease was keng, where it has prevailed from the beginning of May naill now.

The growth on agar-gelatine is elmilar to that on age-agar; to a puncture cultivation, at the are found growing as a fine dust, fo little points alongside the puncture, but with very lute growth on the surface. Whether these baclift at present unable to decide, as the temperatore are able to liquily ordinary gelatine or not, of Hongkong ranges so high that the employment of simple nutritive gelatine is out of the question, abail give further information on this question later.

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Da potatoes at a temperature of from 28 deg. C. to 30 deg. C. there was no growth afther ten days' observation, but at a temprature of 37 deg. C. the batill developed sparingly alter a few

fored foto the neight ourlog island of Houxalccate were whitish grey in colour and

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PROFESSOR KITASATO left for Japan tr-day by among the Chinese residents of the treat pose the P. and O. steamer Verona.

In Japan, and names are even given of those 6 ms which are already closing up ther businesses. This alon is said to be la

· cont^quence of the receipt by one the firms of

■ telegram of serious import from Canton, AN Inquiry was op hed by the Coroner, Mr. H. E. Wadehouse, at the Magistracy this morning,

The Imal Japanese Government sent a into the circumstance connected with the death C nmission to Hongkong in order to study the of Sariarez Khan, pivate of the Hongkong plas 16, especially as regards He bacterielagical chaser and its pathological and clinical features. himself on Sonday last pulling the trigger with

The

pathology and medicine were histor-the right bad stocking being off. bt.fotopical put realved the care of the

The

6p:ial study of Paatessor Aoyama, and the The Coroner relaine a a verdict of felo de se.

authe

Having left Japan on the 5th of June, we served at Hongkong on the 12th of the same hanours at Roman Catholic religious ceremonies. tendant of the Government Civil Hospital, put It seems that the Gneral Commanding the Dis-eve thing reedful at our disposal in the most iendly shit. A room in the Kennedy Town how a party of roldiers detached to attend the give to us, and there we began our work on the Jublic: Service of Archbishop Colgan came to

14th of June In't present asms at the elevation of the Host, and was not able to find authority for this proceeding in the Regulations.

ALTHOU the barometer remains fairly sjezdy, within measurable distance of this colony.

THE IMPROVED CARBO-CAMPHYLENE of all things temporal, hes, we shish there is every indication that a typhoon is raging In Madras, the Commander-in-Chief has Issued 1 month. Here Dr. Lowson, Acting Superin- a plague patient in which the bacill have

is miscible in Water in all proportions.

ITS MISCIBILITY IN WATER

Combined with its Agreeable and Refreshing odour will Commend it to the Public for General Use, as it is an Elegant, Agreeable, and Perfect Disinfectant for Sick-rooms, Bed-rooms, Bịth- rooms and all necessary vessels therein. For all purposes it should be dilated freely with Water.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE.

As a Safeguard in visling-

A Wiile sprinkled on the handkerchlef or cotton wool and kept in front of the nose and month in infected rooms or in passing through infected districts in strongly recommended.

For washing the face and hands-A ter- spoonful to a gallon of water.

tex-

For the Bath-A table-spoonful or less.

For Sick-rooms and Bed-rooms-A spoonful or more distributed in saucers round the room of evaporated by the aid of a lamp.

For Sprinkling Spray-A wine-glassful to a pint of water,

AS A MOUTH WASH

■ few drops in a tumbler of water.

FOR WASHING DOGE.

■ table-spoonful to a bucket of water.

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THE British fronclad Undaunted, Capt. Hallifax, join Admiral Fremantle's feet in the Nor b.

orders that Bish soldiers are not to render

A. mentioned before the baci grow best at a temperature of from 36 deg. E. to 39 deg. C.- at how low temperature growth is possible, I am unable at present to state.

So far I have been unable to observe the

of spores. for nation

guinea-pigs. If these animals t

Experiments On Animals-Mice, rats, susceptible to inoculation. If are incoolated with pure cultivations, or with the blood of

been observed, or with the contents of a bubo, or with pieces of internal organs, or even with the contents the intesile, they begin to the size of the animal. Their eyes become watery, they begin to show disinclination for any effort, later on avoid their food and bide quietly corner of the cʻge. The temperature rises to 41.5 deg. C., and with convulsive symptoms they die fo from two to five days.

Government will iberefore be ac.ing wively if it left put this morning for Japan, where she will | fries was duly call upon for an explanation of el (one of the Plague Establishments) was become ill la from on to two days, according to

TELEGRAMS.

THE BUDGET.

LONDON, July 19th. The Budget bas passed the third reading by A majority of twenty,

THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME. The Government withdraws the Walch Disestablishment and the Local Velo Bills, Evicted but proposes to bring forward the Tenants and Miners Eight Hours Work Btils,

THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

A Republic bas been proclaim:d at Hawa",

THE KOREAN DIFFICULTY.

Reuter's agent in Sharghal wires to London thai Japanese soldiers have assaulted the British Consul and is wife at Seoul, and that thirty blue-jackets have been landed to protect the Legation,

THE NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.

PARIS, July 3rd, Monsieur Casimir Périer, the new President of the French Republic, in bls meinage to tha Chamber-after affirming that he belonged to THE IMPROVED CARBO-CAMPHYLENE no particular party but to France and the Converts the waste of bath water into a Valuable Republic, that he would preserve Intac: the Disinfectant, which in passing through the down-constitution of the country, and would rat con- spouts and stench-traps destroys mosquito gerens and removes bad smells. Its use in the bath has a most beneficial effect on the skin and greatly reduces the risk of infection,

ONE of the oldest seats of learning in Europe. the University of Valladolid, celebrated recently its sixth centennial as an established university,

ALFRED USKKR, a seaman, has gone to gani for a month, for dereiing from the ship Salkirk and defrauding the Sallore Home of one month's advance.

Jener-Which is the best paved street in

Hongkong!

Old Soak-The one where the F. W. D. officials reside |

Sir Charles Russell, the new Lord Chief Justice of England, was a newspaper reporter before be become a member of the bar, în 1859 he pleaded his first case.

Ktusar Collieries are said to be turning out inbout 20,000,000 bin of coal per month, and the Company fu realising crefits ranging from 7 yen to 13 yen per 10 000 ÀÍM.

A NEWSPAPER cannot be run to suit the individual

tastes of its readers. It should be treated as a bill of fare-you take the things you like and leave the things you diilika.

contemporary, bar exined between the Crar and

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mortem examination, formed by Professor Ca that day, we were able to see a post Aoyama. I found numerous bacilli in the babo (ln blord of the best, in the lungs, liver, and this case a swelling of the inguinal glande) In the spleen, & As the post mortem examination

was

A VERY warm Elendship, according to a Japan the Tokugawa family for many years, and cor- reap adence has bin exchanged at various | 19

elven hours after death, I had stil! doubts Keikt, the late Sbogus, who has been sealously times between the two dignitaries. Tokugawa ataut the trae significance of what I found; I

thefore made a

a cultivation and incculated a e from a small due

of the spleen. On the ill sud confined to the residence of Prince, Toku. gawa Iverato at Sendagaya, Tokyo, lately bloed from the finger tips of a patient who had same day I took, with due precautious, some re-elved a letter from the Czar qeling about his physical condl'ion.

the disease in

In a very bad form, with a tempera- ture of 40.5 C., swelling of the axillary glands, &c. Under the microscope I found backill with capsules, the poles of which were stained i

much deeper with aniline dyes than the middle part; this gives them a great likeness to the

the bacill chicken cholers (bacillus cholera galinarum). On the next day, the serum cultivations which were prepared in the Incubator from the dlaztant organs

of

the bedy. and of bibed from

cay, and of organisme, which, under the microscope, were

THE Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme in the Barrack Square this evening, commencing at 730 o'clock:-

Polka.

Iata False. Schotsche..."A Midsummer Night Lance...

"Haddon Hall

Quadrile.... Rickety Rackety"

Veit Quadrille....... Valse

+ Propanea

London Life" Moreska

Waldteufch. Goodwin.

Rovie. Walle Fucalossi. ..Ondfrey.

Conto. Fare.

CSAKA people, Eys our Kobe contemporary the Chronicle, take the cent position of affairs DYSENTERY ra'ferts are so

in Korea very seriously, as is perhaps only Kssanka. Okayama-ken, that the Epidemic undoubtedly suffer severely

harold natural with a commercial town, for Osaka will Hospital i fall to overflowing. The town is At any rate, the people seem to lek upon the war breaks out. described as full of mourning families.

present cists with very anxious eyes, and we bear that the grand carnier known as Kawa. birati, or the river file, usually held on the 15th of July, bas prac fcally been abandone1, or at least postponed until the Korean trouble is at an end.

She-And so they are married! Was it case of love at first sight ?

He-I imagine nol The first time he saw her she was riding ■ bicycle.

Ir is reparted that dating last month, 246 $50 cases of kerosene all were imrorted into Kobe, and 133,741 caves were purchased for the tented with seven years to powerwald Interor, the umber of cases in stock on the 1st "France, with complete confidence in her Army inst. being 6o7.773. and Navy, will continue to assert her love far peace and encourage round the hearths of bes Suo LA PAU CAFE, the British Ambas

sador at Washington, is credited by an Americas people the case of toleration and progress, contemporary with favoring the project to raise Parliament would prove the excellence of Repub-monument on the field of Braddock's defeat, Dean institutions, and the Government might "because it was one of the few battles in which A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. be relied upon to maintain order and the public England and America were allies.”

Hongkong, 14th July, 1894.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

SUBSCRIBERS

TO "THE HONGKONG

peace,"

The President's address was greatly applauded.

THE BASTILLE FETES.

July 4th.

As a token of respect to the memory of the late President Cainot, the fêtes and review arranged

TELEGRAPH" ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY for July 14th have been ab ́ndoned,

REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS

MUST BE PAID EN ADVANCE,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1894.

A GIGANTIC PAWNSHOP.

If a few short years ago a bold and pessimistle | prophet had appeared on these festive shores and asserted that in the year 1894 Hongkong

the world, his friends would either have

great

would, become the most gigantic pawned him or concluded that he was talking in his cups, and, generally

rally speaking, viewing the situation through the bottom of whisky bottle. Yet had sach

an allegation been made, even when the Ench boom

of 1889 was at ito

height, circulating feely, and the colony rapidly money cruelf the uncariable

reputation attached to Monte Carlo, It

It would have con- description of

of the Hunghong of to-day. Hongkong has, in point of fact, fallen sadly from its once high and mighty Estate to the level of a pawnshop the most gigabile pawnshop in the British Empire. This a stariling assertion no doubt, but a careful examination of the commercial affairs of this Important out-pout of an ampire on which the sun never sets, leads to the conviction that the Indictment is based on a solid foundation of teen facts. Is it not an absolute fact that almost all the shares in locally feated

stitated a very accurate

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. M. Casimir Përler's message to the French Chambers has been most favourably received throughout Europe.

GERMANY AND PEACE PROSPECTS. July 5th. Count Capilvi, Chancellor of the German Empire, has declared that never has peace amongst Evropean nations been more smured than it is to-day.

THE ANARCHISTS.

July yib. Large numbers of annichts have been arrested In Paris and throughout the provinces.

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THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND

ANARCHY.

July 9th, The Cabinet, before the vacation, will pass a law increasing the penalties for lecting to anarchy, whether by the public press or otherwise.

THE FARTHQUAKE AT CONSTANTI-

NOPLE.

July 13th,

The victims to the earthquake in Perd and tighbourhood number about one hundred. It is feared that many more lives have been lost, and numerous edifices destroyed,

THE Central Cersent Company of Japan prop ses to establish its headquarters at Kurosaki port, Chikusen, and to manufacture more than you 000 casks per year. The place belag near to Moji its perducts. it is thought, can be sold at comparatively cheap prices,

| fa it the business of the Hongkong police to encourage crime and mannfactors ¿Îminals ? Apparently such ina recogniset practice amongst our gu rifans of parce and grod order, judging from a case heard at the Police Court this morning, which we intend desllng with at length

our org: issu“,

NEGOTIATIONS between the Japanese silk merchants of Yokohama and Messrs. Otte Reimers & Co., of No. 198, which were reported to be progressing favourably, are now stated to have been broken off-the foreign firm relating to discharge Me F. Strahler, against whom the Japanese marchants are showing much illfeeling,

obtain small guinea pigs (weight from tog 10 150 I must observe that in tongkong I could only grameses) and small rabbile (from 205 to 250 grammes) If I could have experimented upon larger animals it is possible ille, would have teen somewhat prolonged beyond the peric in mentioned above.

The pasts around the plot of inoculation are Infiltrated With a reddish gelatinous exudation, the spleen is enlarged, sometimes there is a swelling of the

lymphatic glands, and in all the organs the bacilli are found. The results found after death In animals are very similar to these found in anthrax and In dedema malignum.

Pigeons do not appear to be susceptible to the influence of the baclill..

I made experiments, by feeding some nice and guinea-piga with pare cultivations of the the result was such animals perished

the finger tips, showed a growth microbicitus and with small pieces of the internal

argane:

not to be distinguished from those which we found in a few days, under the same symptoms as In the blood and in the loterior of the babe at

these which bad been inoculated. In all the the first post mortem examination. The bacili internal organs of animals so destroyed I found differed only by being a little longer and staining the bacill. easier in the middle than those taken from the

blood. With there cultivations I inoculated pigeons. zalutaneously mice, guluca-pigs, rabbits and

The mice, which were inoculated on the first day with a piece of spleen and, some blood from the finger tips, died in two days' time, and at the post mortem examination upon them, I found adem round the place of inoculation, the same bacilli in the blood, In the laternal organe, and in the œdematong part secund the place of inoculation.

the cultivations (pigeons excepted) died after All animals which bad heen Innculated with petic is extending from 1 to 4 days, according to the size of the animal. The same state of the crgans after death and the same bacteriological at::vations always obtained as is the case of is further details about my experiments on the mice previously referred to. I propose to animals at a later time.

Every day I took blood from many plague patients and examined it, and almost every time I found the bacillar above described, sometimes in seat numbers, sometimes only few in number, so that many glass slides had to be examined to find 1 geed specimens.

With the dust of dwelling bouses from which the plague-stricken had been removed I made several experiments upon animale. Some of the animals died om tetanus. In one case only a rulcea-ple died with plague symptoms, and in this arm the same becill were found in the Internal organa af la those of plague patienta

accumbed.

who had

These rxriments with the dust from infected houses I shall catately continue.

Many rats and mice, at present, die spontane ourly in Hongkong, exin.ined some of them, the sam bcllif. In the internal organs of a muse I discovered

Power of Resistance of the Bacilli to Physical

and

Rectly to

THE Nova-Scatlan ship Selkirk, which has gained a rather unenviable notoriety since her ar:Ival here, left yesterday for Cebu, ermmanded by Capt. D. Sheare, late Secretary of the local Ma De Officers' Asscciation. A caward was

Chemical Agencias. affoat yesterday to the effect that the ship would

Experiments with desiccation-The contents he delayed on account of there being a chance

of a bubo in which the bazilli were present in of Capt. Crowe being released from prison by the Governor, but there was not the slightest

pafcily cleansed by heat and alcohol), and great numbers were wiped over cover glasses truth in the rumour. The Salkirk Is anchored outside Green Island, presumably owing to the

saws of the cover-glasses were dried in the air of a room at a temperature ranging from 28 deg, threatening aspect t of the wealber,

Cie 30 dag. C. Obers 1

exr sed

sed directly the sun's rays, and from among them, after an THERE is rot one is a thousand, says Industry,

exposure of from cac, two and three hours (up who will at first thought consider the low price of silver

to six days), I removed some parts, putting such over as being a cause of counterfelting, but

portions in besites and placing them in the On the other hand these same bacliii were to who will coin sliver just as good as the United it is directly no. At the present time anyone

Incub for Those witch had brea strndlog be found at every bost mortem examination (of in the

LO the room from ove thirty-six hours States miate produce, can make thlity cents on which we had opwards of fifteen), in great showed 富

growth pretty dollar by the operation, and this is profitable | quaedly, in the bubonic lood contained in the room for more than four days were unable

In the spleen, Ircabator, but those which had businces certainly. The common Idea of

Tdea of the

the lungs, the liver, lo the counterfeldig is that of Issuing base coin, but the heart, in the brain, intentions, in fact in all to show any growth even after one week's Incu- there is no need that if by any means the inte sal organs without exception-and every bation. Those exposed directly to the sun were current value of cofre la maintained above the sult

cultivation from particle of these parts destroyed after from three to four hours, prices of the metal they contain, and the wonder favariably produced the same bicilli

Farther cultivations on serum were treated is that "money factories" have not sprung up Soppare the contents of a bubs or exactly like the contents of the bubo with very long ago ander such circumstances. Such a small piece of the spleen is rubbed on the similar results. fretory has been star: 5 in Omaha, where some COVE:-glass the latter. Afior having

state people have produced good money and

in exsuntmed under the microscope dispute the right of the Government to maintain a monopoly of the business. Here is a new problem in the cheap money system. There was once in West Virginia a money maker who contended that his money was better than that of the Government,

THE Emperor of China is said to pay great THE PLAGUE in hongGKONG. reverence to the ssered perron of the Dalal Lams, and pays a large bounty to the Khasre Lamas for the dally repetition of prayers and the

There lo sgato nothing of special interest to holding al ceremoni-z to invoke the blessing of report. The pallente in the various hospitals Buddha. The amount paid annually is about deaths have again tera reduced almost to

are progressing favorably as a rule, and the 100,000 deces of liver and come 10,000 yakmialmuna. New cates, however, c' atinge to loads of tea.

crop up, but convite fog the large numbers

the siver steamery, the figures are by no meana the gins that the epidemic of dysentery in alarming. Had some effective check been Osaka is dally increasing in severity, more than placed on this wholerate influx of the coolte the b-gloning of this year up to the and of lust is that the plague would bave been nicely twenty new case Pelog reposted dadir. From class for the sex. w. k or two, the probability month, 450 cases had been reported, of which stamps

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Experiments with Heaf-Beef tea cultiva tions which had been heated for 30 minutes in a water. C. In the vapy apparatus they were hath to 8 deg C were destroyed-at

to twelfth inch all immersion Zela) bacili will be discovered in the form found in:

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of Reinkultur) of eno and the same bacillus | with the following resp. contained one-half

cut.

po cultivation (Reinkultur). In the spleen destroyed in a few minutes. especially the bacill are aggregated in heaps. Chemical-Carbolic Acid-To every 10 Berf'il from bubonte swellings and from other cuble centimetres of beaftea cultivations, inic sel organs are more easily stained with which had been standing to the incubator aniline dyes in their middle part than those taken from 2 to 4 days had grown well, the blood, bet any serum colivation pre- carbolic acid was added of a strength of Belles

1 frm them produces the same form of half per cent of the whole-three-quarters par

cant. They were afterwards weil shaken and In any case where cailivations are prepared left at the ordinary temperature of the room, from parts of any Internal organs or from the Of each of these cultivations a few drops were ble: taken from the finger tips, with careful brought into sterilised beef too, after one, two of all due precautions, pure collivs- and three hours, and left in the Incubator

results. a16 always obtained, therefore the most intimate These cultivations

three-quarters per cent, carbolle the disease.

Fett particulars about the observations at the one hour, grew in the locubutor after two days, post mortem examinations will be given later cultivation however of one per cent, which it may be said that the parts in the neighbour-wot grow even after one whole wash in the on by my colleague Professor Aoyama; generally had been left standing for only one hour did

Colour incubator. twcan black and sci, Infiltrated with gelatinous Caldivastons that had been mixed with only exvdiou, and that the spleen in enlarged, one-half per cent, of carbolic acid and had been Beth animals in animals in which the parts round the place of show growik after one week in the incubator, are to be found in inoculated left standing for more than two hours did not ineplation procent the same codematous exuda- neither did the ber, cultivations containing

neither did the other. tions as wi and in human beinga.

grester per centage produce any growth. I shell now give a few short notes about the Quichilmac-Expriments were made with bacillos.

quicklime in exectly, the same way as with carbolle acid, with the following resulta

We regret to lenta, says the Kobe Chromicio A |of Chinejo dally lanted hero from Ciuton by conection must exist between the bacilius and † Para and had been left standing in she room for

65 had had a tal formination state of things to put ja mal ets are, it is almost certatu band of the bubo are cofamateus,

to stay

which urgently calla los inqui y.

Fon carryfog revolver and one hundred cartyldges without legsi waimat of authority, Back Sung Un, a distinguished Calestial histrion, fratted a weary few minutes 'briciul the buck" at the Magistracy this Lorents. The miticise being genuina and mat wants staga. "gropa," The Maglairste estimated sin damage to law and good weder at $5 Verdiet appordingly.

with us throughout the summer.

The Wallewar's Dilgade" continues its valuable work is w.deus districts. The Portu- guess Consulate in Wyndham Street was the abfens of its attentions this afternoon, and no doubt other houses in the vicinity were favoured with a vinit.

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So far one of the members of the Sanitary Board have become victims to what newspaper

Tās bacilli are to be found in the blood, In the reporters are so fond of alhading to as the fall | bats x be the spinet, and in all other intéresi diaenue; but any hour might bring the joyful, organs of the victime of sidang The Melli sog'

acid

Those besi-tsa enitivations which contained onschall per cent, of qutakilme grew sparing/7,

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