IE. YAMHILL IS THE BANNER AG- 1 ricultural C ounty in Oregon. is the county seat 0 and McMINNVILLE largest town, and the r SISEliaíüigJiajííüpJíajRJiaí he charleston will bring back the I tata . If you have lost your business adver­ tise in the T 9 r-l 1 Teleplicixe-ISeg-ister, And it will bring it back to you. Cruiser in Yamhill sure. Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in Yamhill County. M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , REGISTER Eltablllhed TELEPHONE Establish E. E. GOUCHER. Calbreath for the season, with the privilege of return in ease of failure to get foal. Money due on July 1, ISHII, either cash or by note at IO per «•ent. No responsibility for accidents or escapes, but great care will be taken to prevent either. For further particulars apply to The St. Charles Hotel. CHAS. WOODS. Sample rooms in connection. o------ o Ts now fitted np in first class order. Accommodations as good bh can be onnd in the city. 8. E. MESSINGER, Manager. YOUNG HAMBLETONIAN! Will make the Season of 1891 At the McMinnville Fair Grounds. COTTAGE SANITARIUM! Single Service, Season, (Due at the time of Service) $10. (Due July 1, 1891,) 15. 20. Insurance, (Due when mare is know to be with foal,) rozEsorsir’TioJsr ^ ostid pedigree : Young Hambletonian, dapple bay; stands 16) hands high and weighs 1350 pounds; sired by Hambletonian Mambrino (5241) now standing at $200; sire of Jane L 2:19f; Fred Hambletonian, 2:26; Kitty Ham, 2:26|; Susie S, 2:26); Laddie, double team record 2:38; Hamlin, double team record at 3 years old 2: 38 and the dam of Lady Beach, 2:264; dam by Milton son of Royal George, half brother to Old Kate, mother of Fantasie; 2d dam by Oregon Pathfinder (10981). Young Hambletonian is very stylish, and notwithstanding he has never been trained, shows much speed. J. W. GILE, Proprietor. C iias . W oods , Manager, McMinnville. jftut Xvit. Tabor. -Portland’s Most Beautifnl Suburb** • For the treatment of Nervous Diseases, espeaially those suffering from nervous ex­ haustion and prostration, chronic diseases, and al! those who need quiet and rest, good nursing, massage and constant medical care. At Mt. Tabor will be foil <1 pure air, absolutely free from malaria, good water, lieautiful surroundings and magnificent views. Ample references given if desired. For further particulars, address the physic­ ian in charge. OSMON ROYAL, M. D.. Ninth The Finest Line of Confection­ ery in the City. All kinds of Produce taken at the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE. Call and examine our Stock and get Prices. a»,,«. I 6 H enderson « G aunt . a Is the leading newspaper and best adver- g tising medium. Try it. It is a 2Toíf2l3I3¡5JS2rSÍSfSÍSJSJSISISISíSíi J. F. CALBREATH. Telephone-Register will sell them cheap, This beats the old Gag ‘‘Spot Cash and no Rent to Pay. J. W. COWLS. LEE LAUGHLIN I. I. STRATTON. President. Vice President. Cashier McMinnville, Oregon, Paid up Capital, $50,000. Transacts a General Banking Business, Deposits Received Subject to Check Interest allowed on time deposits. Sell sight exchange and telegraphic trans­ fers on New York, San Francisco and Port­ land. Collections made on all accessible points. Office hours from 9 a. ni. to 4 p m. FRANK WRIGHT, Successor to H. Adams HARNESS SHOP! I nave purchased the Harness Shop of II. Adams and will keep a Complete and Reliable Stock of Harness and Horse Furnishings The people of Yamhill county are invited to call look over the stock and get prices. FRANK WRIGHT. McMinnville Marble and Granite Works Is now prepared to furnish all kinds of Cemetry Work and Monuments! All kinds of A full line of Hardware on the same terms. AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN GRANJTE Parties wishing work of tins kind would «lo well to call and get our prices before purchasing elsewhere. IRA A. MILLER, BURIED ALIVE BY LAW. VOL. III. NO. 21. june 25, i89i. TIDES AND STARS. Chilean Justice That Equals the Tortures Is Nature as Terfect In th® Great Universe as in Our Little Earth? of the Inquisition. But there is another side to the pic­ One of the most enteresting steps in ture—one so dark and terrible that as the wonderful advance of astronomy we contemplated it the bright day during the last forty years is that taken seemed suddenly overcast, the sun a few years ago by Prof. Geo. H. Dar­ ceased to shine and the birds to sing. win in his investigation of the effects In this splendid “model” building of tidal action in the evolution of the there are slimy, noisome cells, where solar system. According to Prof. Dar­ daylight never enters, in which hu­ win’s conclusions the moon was born man beings are literally buried alive. directly from tlie earth in the molten Having heard of them, we requested to stage of our planet's history, and at the be shown one of these cells. The gen­ beginning of its career revolved rapidly tlemanly Superintendent denied there around the earth at very close quarters. were any such, and showed us the in­ At that time tremendous tides were interior of two or three twilight cells, raised upon each of these plastic masses which he said were the worst in the through the attraction of the other. By penitentiary and designed for those means of reactions, which can be de­ condemned to “solitary conflnment,” monstrated readily with simple geomet­ says the Chilean correspondent of the rical figures, although their full analy­ Pittsburg Dispatch. But we knew tical investigation is an intense math­ better, and latter on the judicious in­ ematical process, the effect of the tides vestment of a dollar induced a subord­ is both to drive the moon gradually inate to give us a glimpse of what we away from the earth, causing it to re­ volve constantly in a larger and larger came to see. Under the massive arches of the enor­ orbit with decreasing angular velocity, mously thick walls, where perpetual and to slow down the rotation of the twilight reigns even in the outside moon on its axis, until it reached the rooms, are inner cells, two feet wide by condition in which we now behold it, six feet long, destitute of a single ar­ keeping one face always toward the ticle of furniture. Until recently those earth and making but one rotation confined in them were walled in, tlie on its axis in the course of a revolution brick being cemented in place over the around its terrestrial center. Within the past year or two it has living tomb. Now there is a thick iron door, which is securely nailed up, then been discovered that Mercury and fastened all around with huge clamps, Venus, the only planets of our system exactly as vaults are closed in tlie San­ which are nearer to the sun than the tiago cemetery; and over all tlie great earth is, behave in a manner analogous red seal of the government is placed— to that of the moon, so far as their rota­ not to be removed until the man is tion is concerned. They always keep the dead or his sentence lias expired. The same side toward the sun, just as the tiny grated window is covered by nioon always keeps one face toward the several thicknesses of closely woven earth. It is not improbable that these wire netting, making dense darkness planets may have been brought into inside, so the prisoner cannot tell dark­ their pt'euliar condition by the effects of ness from day. There is no ventilation tidal friction, although the problem pre­ except through this netting, and no sents great difficulties. Quite recently an attempt has been opening whatever to the tomb. Low down in the iron door, close to the made to apply the priueipal of tidal evo­ to the ground, is a tiny sliding panel, a lution to those wonderful solar systems foot long by two or thee inches wide, know as the double or binary stars. T. arranged like a double drawer, so that J. J. See, of Berlin, has made a mathe­ food and water may be slipped in on matical investigation along this line shallow pans and the refuse returned. which leads him to think some interest­ Twice in every twenty-four hours ing conclusions concerning the consti­ this panel is operated, ami if this food tution of tlie universe. In a binary remains untouched a certain number of system there are two suns, often far ex­ days it is known that the num is dead, cluding our sun in magnitude, which, and only then can the door be opened held in comradeship by their mutual at­ unless liis time has expired. If the traction, revolve around their common food is not eaten for only two or three center of gravity, carrying their fami­ days no attention is paid to it, for the lies of planets, if such they have, round prisoner may be shamming, but beyond and round in ceaseless gyrations. One a given lengtli of time lie cannot live remarkable feature of such systems is that the orbits of the revolving suns without eating. Not the faintest sound nor glimmer are exceedingly elongated ellipses, of light penetrates these awful walls. differing in this respect very widely In the same clothes lie goes in, un­ from the nearlj- circular orbits of the washed, unconib, without even a planets in our system. Another feature blanket or a liankful of straw to lie on, is that, while one of the members of he languishes in sickness, lives or dies, the combination is almost always witli no means of making Ills condition noticeably smaller than the other, yet known to those outside. He may in no case is the proportion of magni­ count the lagging hours, sleep, lie, tude anything like so great as that curse, pray, long for death, dash his which exist between even the largest brains out, go mad if lie likes—no body of our planets and the sun. Both of these peculiar features of the knows it. He is dead to the world, and buried, though living. Six months binary stars are explained by Mr. See's is the usual sentence, and until lately hyjiothesis. He concludes that the two years has been tlie limit. They fact that the two stars are always com­ told us that but one man lias ever been parable in size indicate that they owe known to live a year, and the majority origin to tlie splitting up, through the do not "out last the second month. rapid rotation, of a condensing nebul­ Those that survive tlie six months are ous mass, which was nearly homogen­ almost invariably driveling idiots or eous througout its volume. He shows, mathematically, that the greater the dangerous maniacs. The door is always opened at night, departure from absolute homogeneity when the sentence has expired, because in tlie parent nebula the wider the in his enfeebled condition, after long difference in magnitude of tlie masses darkness, the glare of day would be after the ^operation would be. His In­ torture, if not death. They expect to vest igation.lead also to an explanation of find the wretch stone blind, emaciated tlie highly eccentric orbitsofthe binary to the last degree, unable to stand, hair system, by showing that tlie effect of and beard grown white as snow, nails tidal reaction between the two masses like talons and garments rotten with after separation had taken place wor ld lie not only to drive them gradually mold. One man of education and refine­ apart, but to increase the eccentricity of ment kept himself in tolerable condi­ their orbits. Perhaps the most intesesting thing tion through his half year of eonfin- ment by means of a handful melon that Mr, See points out as a deduction seeds. As he was going in somebody from his investigations is that we can­ not take our solar system as a type of gave him part of a muskmelon. Strange to say, it was not taken from solar systems in general. The small­ him, and he carefully guarded the ness of our planet in proportion to the seeds, which he put to a variety of in­ sun, and the near approach to circular­ genious uses. With them, and reckon­ ity of their orbits, indicate that our sys­ ing from the number of times tlie food tem resulted from exceptional condi­ pan slid in and out, he contrived to tions, which, perhaps, have not been keep track of tlie number of days of in­ precisely duplicated. This conclusion carceration; he invented games of “sol­ will undoubtedly be welcomed by those itaire,” whicli he played thousands of who hold with I)r. Whowell that ours times in the darkness; and to vary the is not the only inhabited world; and dreadful monotony lie would throw yet, surely, proof of the infinite diversity away the precious handful and grope and variety of tlie universe cannot mili­ around on his hands and knees until tate against the belief that nature is as they were all collected. He says that to perfect in binary systems anil in sun those little seeds alone he is indebted clusters as in our little corner of space. for his almost miraculous escape from New York Sun. insanity, idiocy or death. Tlie Whitehead Torpedo. On tlie day of our visit to the San­ Tlie success of the small Chilean gun tiago penitentiary there was one man boats in sinking the large war ship of in solitary confinement, under two the rebels, the Blanco Encalada, by years’ sentence, whose time had ex­ means of Whitehead torpedoes has giv­ pired within seven weeks. It was tlie en renewed interest in that class of mis­ only case on record, and a marvel to all siles. At tlie naval exhibition now in who were acquainted with it. A great progress in London, tlie latest improv­ deal of speculation is rife as to what ed specimens arc shown, among them the poor wretch will be like when the an 18 inch torpedo which, with a speed door is opened, if he manages to exist of 28} knots for G(H) yards (a rate of over so long—blind, no doubt, and hopeless­ 33 miles an hour,) carries nearly 200 lb. ly ruined in health, and intellect, if he of explosive. The adoption of nets pro­ does not die of the shock of liberation. jected from the side of a ship, by which On Saturday a workman, while ex­ the torpedoes are arrested or caused to cavating for a levee near Skelton, I nd., explode harmlessly at a sufficient dis­ unearthed a manmoth foot, supposed tance from tlie structure to prevent to be of the ostrich species. The leg damage, makes it desirable to have net was disconnected at tlie knee joint. cutters. But nothing efficient has yet The leg from the knee down was intact. been produced. There is un«iuestiona- This relic was found about eight feet bly a great field for tlie invention of below the surface of the ground. The new improvements in respect not only entire length of the limb from the joint of torpedoes but naval appliances of all to the end of the middle toe is six feet kinds. A remarkable feature about it nine inches; the length of tlie toes is, is the bluffnessof the head, showing respectively, 9, 7 and til inches eachl| the advance of ideas in this respect. In It is thoroughly petrified ami heavy the nose of the torpedo is a long striker with a needle ]x>int, which causes as roek. ignition of tlie explosive on coming Moulds for easting iron can only lie violently in contract witli any hard made in sand. Iron or other metallic substance, such as tlie bottom of a ship. moulds chill the iron, ami it does not An ingenious American proposes to HU well. The great heat at which iron melts will burn any other material, or build an elevator at Mt. Blanc which be able to carry 216 persons at once. will stick so as to break the mould. LONGER AND SAFER LIVES. The individual who sits him down ami deliberately assails the people of the present generation to their detri­ ment as compared with those who exist­ ed “in old times,” if he will but look around him as carefully as he lias sought for the great things of the past, will find his error. And then, if he will but be converted, he will find himself in better business as an admirer of tlie present than as a worshiper of a mis­ represented past. In every sense the people of to-day are wiser, richer, more powerful ami happier than were their forefathers. Mentally, physically, and perhaps morally, we excel them. While we are given isolated examples of what they could do in the line of wonderful feats of strength and endur­ ance, future generations will read in history of our doings in such large numbers as to far overshadow the past as we know it. We can run faster, throw further, and hit harder than they could. Instead of showing a de­ cline in vitality, statistics bear out the argument that the race has increased the average duration of life and the general level of health. Two principal means by which this has been accom­ plished may be named —the extension of the knowledge of sanitary and med­ ical science, and tlie invention of vast improvements which have rendered existence more wholesome and comfort­ able. So gradual lias been the advent of these improvements in material things that the result arising from their use has not been marked by sufficiently radical changes in the condition of man to be noticed in one generation' but statistics extending over a century readily tell the tale. Statisticians now calculate that the average man lives nine years longer at the present time than at the beginning of the century. In the eighteenth the English govern­ ment as a means of revenue, sold an­ nuities on the lives of persons—a kind of reversed insurance—but some years ago the discovery was made that in­ stead of making money the government was losing by reason of the increased long levity of the annuitants. The great improvement in wearing apparel lias played no small part in bringing about tliis condition of tilings, tlie ap­ parently insignificant Influence of rub­ ber garments being on tlie health of the people a great factor for go««]. In spite of numerous railroa«! accidents and deaths from tlie deadly electric wire as well as from other dangerous implements placed in the hands of man by science, human life is longer and better than it was formerly. Ad­ ded to this is tlie fact tliat life is less frequently destroyed by the liaml of man. Figures show that in Queen Elizabeth’s time there was every year a murder in London to eacli 2,000 of the population. At that rate 2,500 would now l>e murdered in that city, while the facts are that only twelve meet death annually in that form.— Manchester. {N. E.) Union. THE SMART GIRL’S LOVER. He Mllat be all That 1« Good If He Would Animals Thai Kill Each Other With All the Skill of Men. Hold His Own. Oh, dear! how pleasant it is these moonshiny evenings to wander forth into the park or step out onto tlie ve­ randa for a minute’s outing and airing after the confinement and closeness of over-heated parlors! Nobody is there except tlie man in the moon and one other fellow, and nobody, except these people, can tell just exactly what is go ing on. Miss Fair Beauty has a score of admir­ ers and she loves to take them out one by one in the light of the moon, listen to their declarations and their observa­ tions. She cannot marry them all ami probably she does not care to marry any of them,but she loves to liave them all devoted to her, and ready to dance attendance upon her every wish and whim. Some day from the ranks of the cav­ aliers who have followed her forth into the light of the moon she will select one who shall lie the slave of the ring, and whose pride and pleasure and duty it will be forevermore to lead her where­ soever she wishes to go, whether it be under the sun by day or ’neath the moon and stars by night. Like tlie sculptor and the clay will these two l>e to each other, the one modeling and designing, tlie other attaining each moment tlie highest degree of beauty whicli Hie hand of the sculptor can give. IIo not think, liecause Miss Fair Beauty goes in for athletics, studies Egyptology, is up on Russian history and speaks a smattering of Japanese, that her mental condition lias under­ gone any change, so far as sensitiveness to masculine impression is concerned. She has merely learned to discriminate between wheat and chaff, between gold and dross, between silver and tinsel, between shoddy and iugrain, between good for something and good for noth­ ing, that is all, and Miss Fair Beauty’s Charlie must lie good and honest, and clever and noble, ami earnest and true. If he is not rich he must be capable of earning the money to becone rich; lie must liave executive ability, and with­ in him must dwell that faculty which lias in its grasp tlie elements of suc««ss. Miss Fair Beauty ami her sister, Miss Smart Girl, and her cousin, Miss Blue Stocking, are all capable of knowing a g«x>d tiling when they see it, and con­ sequently they are picking out for moonlight companions the very best men to lie found any where, and the Miss Nancy young man and the girlish young man are going lagging for sweet­ hearts. They can’t get them nt all. Tlie kind tliey want won't have them, and those who will have them are so far down in what is now tlie girlish Hiatus tliat these top-lofty, though top- light young men don’t want them. W. W. ASTOR WILL GO. The Representative of New York Great CONTAGIOUSNESS OF DISEASES. ALMOST CIVILIZED BRUTES. Family to be a Cockney. I nd ¡an wolves have lieen seen to leave some of their number in ambush at points on the edge of tlie jungle, while others drove in antelopes feeding in the open ground beyond. But wolves, as a rule, hunt alone or in familit*s, except when pressed by hunger. Wild dogs, however, habitually combine to hunt, ami Baldwin, in his “Game of Beugal” mentions a case of four or five martins hunting a fawn of tlie “muntjac” or barking deer. But in real military or­ ganization ami strategy, monkeys are far ahead of all other animals, and no tably the different kinds of baboons. Mansfield Parkins gives an excellent account of tlie tactics of tlie dog-faced hamadryads that liv«*d in large colonies in tlie cracks in tlie cliff’s of tlie Abys­ sinian mountains. These creatures use«i «Kcasionally to plan a foraging ex- pedition into tlie plain below, and the order of at tack was most carefully or­ ganized, tlie old males marching in front and on the tlauks with a few to bring up the rear and keep the rest in order. They had a code of signals,halt­ ing or advancing according to the barks of the scouts. When they reached the corn fields the main ixxly plundered, while the old mall's watched on all sides, but took nothing for themselves* The others stow«*! the com in their cheek pouches and under their armpits. They are also said to dig wells with their hands and work in relays. The Gelada baboons sometimes have battles witli the Hamadryads, especially wlien the two species have a mind to roll the same field, and, if flglqing in the hills, will roll stones onto their enemies. Not long ago a colony of Gelada liaboons, which had been fire«i at by some black soldiers attending a duke of Coburg- Gotha on a liunting expedition on the borders of Abyssinia, block«*«! u pass for some days by rolling rocks on all com­ ers. This seems to give some support to a curious objection raised by a Chi­ nese lotail governor in a report to his superior on the difficulties in the way of opening to steamers the waters of the upper Yang-Tse. The report, after no­ ting that the inhabitants on the upper waters were ignorant men who might quarrel with strangers, went on to al­ lege that monkeys inhabit«*! the banks an«l they would roll down stones on tlie steamers. The last two facts,” the report added, would leud to «uiniplaint from the English and embroil the ce­ lestials witli them,especially if the men or the monkeys kill any English.” A Philoftopliicai Family. Amelia lias pimples and sort's in the head. From humors internal her nose has grown red; Hile’s a Ixiil on her neck that is big ax a hell. But in oilier rexpt*cte site Is doing quite well. Anti pa has dyspepsia, malaria, gout, His bands with salt-rlieum are ail brok­ en out; He is prone to rheumatics that make liis legs swell, But in other respect« he is doing quite well. Anti ma has night-sweats and a trou­ blesome cough, that all our dixttors can’t seem to drive off; She wakes every night and coughs quite a spell, But in other respt*4x sbe is doing quite well. There is nothing like philosophy to help one lx?ar tlie ills of life, but in the ease of this family what is most mxsled is a g«x>d supply of I)r. Bierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It would cleanse Amelia’s bad blixxi, cure pa's ailments, and ch«-ck ma’s <*ough. The “Golden Medical Discovery,” by its action on the liver, cleanses the system of impur­ ities. It cures humors, ulcers, Ixills, scrofula, salt-rheum, erysiix'las and all kinds of sores and swellings. The only guaranteed blood-purifier. Whatever t he cause it may be,it looks as if the richest young man in New York had shaken the dust of the city from his feet forever. Tlie alliance will no longer be able to rail at William Waldorf Astor as an American pluto­ crat; Siuiiuel GonqxTx will lie deprived of an example whom he has held up to suffering workingmen and even Mr. Powderly’s taunts will lose their value because Mr. Astor in to lie hereafter an Englishmen in spirit, if not in fact. Of course his 20,000 pieces oT real estate cannot he transferred, and lie is to con­ tinue the erection of ids two hotels, one of which is to vie witli tlie tower of Babel in Altitude and is to lx* a much more picturesque and highly dicorated piece of architecture than tliat historic structure. Ever since his return from tlie Italian court where he represented the court as minister, Mr. Astor’s friends have felt that he has lost his in­ It will lx-interesting to remember a terest in American affairs, except tho« of a business nature. When they went propliecy whicli Sir John MacDonald to him to get his help in organizing a once made to a reporter of the New municipal reform movement here, lie York Sun with regard to the future of said, with a half sneer on his lips, “I Canada. He said that in time the pro­ am no longer interested in politics.” vinces of Ontario and Quebec will form When tliey urged him to show some a greater France. He thought France activity in social affairs, lie declared wax declining, while in the old prov­ that such frivolities did not «xincern inces were multiply like nothing the him. And within a month after the world has seen before. Not only do death of his father it was apparent tliat tliey have large families, but they jx>x- he had determined to take up his resi­ sess all tlie tlirift of the French and are dent» abroad. Perhaps the unfortu­ steadily buying up the land. Like nate, though most courteously comluct- our New England the soil is com­ ed quarrel, which has broken out lx-- paratively |xx>r and difficult of cultiva­ tween his branch of the Astor family tion, and the English, Irish and Scotch and that of which Mrs. William Astor are leaving it for the prairie, tlie plains is the head may have driven him to and the Pacific coast, “and,” said he, this decision. Mr. Astor was original­ “whenever such a farmer expresseH a ly soured in the fail of 1880, when he d«?sire to go west, liis next-d«xir neigh­ was most cruelly betrayed by republi­ bor’ a Frenchman, standweady to buy can leaders, who induced him to accept him out. Stxin there will lie few ex­ the nomination for congress, and then, cept Frenchmen left in Old Canada.” as he believes, with his money help to Fimt Fifth Cftiight In Great Salt Lake. elect Roswell P. Flower, his rival. It is understood here that he will make At last a fish lias been caught in the London his home, and as soon as tlie great Salt Lake, It wax captured near period of mourning for his father and Buffalo Park, and is one and five- for liis wife's brother, Lieutenant Paul, eighths inch«.-« long. It wan different who has just died, expires will cultivate from anything ever seen here before, English nobility and title«! society with having a large head, a ixxly something the same zeal which others have shown like a trout, while it is almost transpar­ when they liave sought the society of ent, except the dark outlines of the ver­ tlie Astors here. Young Jack Astor, tebra, whicli is ax well formed ax if of a who is rejxirted to have Ix-come a most full-grown fish and is dark. There uxorious bridegroom, will liave to lie were two of these small fish swimming Several ancient bird tracks have been regarded as the head of the American to-gether and they were so lively that found in a stone quarry about a mile branch of the Astor family.— World. only one could lie caught. anil a half north of Holyoke, Mass. They are each eleven inches in lengtli, Highest of ail in Leavening Power.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889, three claws to each foot. The tracks are four feet and ten inches apart. There are eleven tracks in consecutive order leading up the hill. Each track I is imtedded in the stone ten inches. They are perfect; even the toe-nails are distinct. Several Easthampton men have tried to buy him. The owner has offered to get them out in g«xxl shape , and deliver them for $1,000. Other tracks were found near by, but they are not as perfect as these eleven. Among the practical questions con­ nected with the subject of contagious diseases is one whicli relates to the lengt h of the period of special expos­ ure. The Boston Medical aad Suryioal Journal says that the «»utagiousness of measles, mumps and whooping-cough disappear witli the patienl's recovery; that there is probably no danger of his conveying the disease to others for about about a week after he himself has been exposed to it —that is to saj- during the so-ealled period of incuba­ tion: and that the contagiousness of measles does not extend beyond a fort­ night. Some authorities affirm that tlie contagiousness of whooping-cough ceases after six weeks, however long the coughing may continue; others think it prudent to isolate tlie patient until the paroxysms are over. In scar­ let fever and diphtheria the period of incubation is brief, a few days only; and during this period there is no con­ tagion. It is very important to know that in scarlet fever the period of great­ est danger is after the disappearance of the fever, the period of desquama­ tion or peeling. From ignorance of this fact many lives have been lost. Per­ sons have gone into society before the peeling was completed, and almost of course have communicated tliedisease. The fact that every particle of tlie scales contain thousands of microbes. A lady who was recovering from scarlet fever wrote a letter to a distant friend. As she wrote she blew from the pajier the “dust” which peeled from her hands. The letter conveyed the disease to her friend and her little daughter, and the daughter died. A servant nursed a scarlet fever patient, and un her leav­ ing the plage she put her clothing into a trunk. A year afterward she un­ packed the trunk, and a little girl who stood by took the disease. In dyph- theria the virus resides in the false membrance, and for that reason is less likely to be carried to a distance; but the particles long retain their power of infection. The contagiousness of