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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 143, 28 August 1895, Page 4

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MOST PEOPLE READY TO RISK IT. Greenbacks and ] Sank Notes Carry Bacteria. Congressman Outhivaite'e Plan. Representative Outhwaite of Ohio has taken up and in view of the danger of cholera invasion will press vigorously at tho next session of congress a proposition for the frequent exchange of soiled paper money for new notes. An investigation made at his suggestion has shown that old greenbacks and bank notes contain the germs of disease to an unusual degree and that there is reason for apprehension of them as a producer of disease. In view of the necessity of the utmost precaution against tho spread of cholera in this country this summer Mr. Outhwaite has introduced a bill directing the secretary of the treasury to make tho necessary regulations to secure tho "speedy and frequent redemption of all United States paper currency and all national bank notes which have become soiled, impure, unclean or otherwise unfit for use when presented in sums of not less than SIOO, and for tho preparation and issue of new United States paper currency in place of such as shall have been redeemed." The subject was first brought to Mr. Outhwaite's attention by Dr. C. F. Clark of Columbus, and soon afterward the Bankers' association of Ohio adopted a report in favor of legislation to secure a frequent exchange of notes. Dr. J. C. Graham, bacteriologist of Starling Medical college, was asked to make an investigation, and his report discloses the fact that old paper money is as full of bacteria as eggs are said to bo of meat. Dr. Graham writes that he made an examination of eight bills. Asl bill of the series of 1878 showed three kinds of bacteria, and one of the series of 1886 two kinds. Two $2 bills of tho same series showed one bacterium each, and another dollar bill, series of 1888, two kinds. The bills were all muoh worn Tho examination of the notes showed that on each of them were a number o* bacteria colonies which might some d? , under some circumstances, develop energy enough to immigrate to the 1/ .man system. One of the bills had 18 (. /lonies of two kinds of bacteria. T' > doctor says that it yet remains to etermine the nature of tho various ' xcrobes to ascertain whether they V pathogenic germs capable of produ ing disease. This work will requiv considerable time. Tho roughened surface of old bills affords a place for disease germs, and attention should bo called to it.— Now England Stationer and Printer.

The Stiigo In England. The Standard says it is not be denied that the art of acting in England, like the art of playwritiag, has suffered from the influence of Mrs. Grundy. If wo had better and greater plays—plays of more ambition and more daring—wo should probably see an improvement in the mimetic art. It is true that the insular potentate whom wo have named does not exercise quite as much authority as she did. Still she has by no moans abdicated her position, and it is impossible to predict or foresee at what particular moment sho will reassert her imperiled prerogative. The young ladies of tho period have, no doubt, burst a good many of tho trammels which were endured patiently by their mothers at a similar period of life. But la jeune miss is still a personage on this sido of tho channel, and though sbe herself may be slow to bo shocked her elders and dnennas aro shocked for her. It is apparently assumed that nothing is shocking in French, and we have no doubt that scores of mothers will tak\; their daughters to Drury Lane to see "Frou Frou" or "Lo Monde ou Ton s'Enmiie" who would ask with horror whether the lord chamberlain was dead if situations at all analogous to those in either of these comedies were represented in honest English. We are a curious people, and it is certain the French think us so. Their best comedies are seen on tho stage. Our most amusing ones aro to bo seen off it. —London Public Opinion.

Fear In Times of Pestilence During an epidemic of any kind each Individual should endeavor, as indeed he should under any circumstances, to maintain his mental equilibrium—in other words, too keep cool. It is very difficult in our time to accomplish this for the simple reason that some journals think it their duty to print sensational headlines and sometimes sensational paragraphs, which have very little actual foundation, but which excite and terrify the timid and sometimes even the brave heartc.l.

The writer was once in a foreign country where an epidemic was prevalent. Ho never knew how violent it was until ho received the newspapers from his own country describing it. Such an effect did they have upon his friends that be was written to by several of them urging him to fly at once, when as a matter of fact ho was in no more danger than he would have been in his own dwelling at home. Tho cholera was only prevalent among tho vicious, intemperate and ignorant classes, who violated tho most ordinary rules of personal cleanliness, and yet the news sent from the same places intimated that every individual, even in places entirely free from cholera, was likely soon to be attacked and swept off the earth.—Dr. D. B. St. John Eoosa in Engineering.