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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 78, 30 March 1892, Page 3

Tho MedicO'Chirurgical Sooiety of Glasgow, a body consistiug of oyer 200 members, mostly practititioners in tho West of Scotland, have drawn up a memorial to tho Town Counoil of Glasow, calling their attention to the fact that tuboroulosis is now fully recognised as an infectious disease, and asking tbem to take the matter iuto their oerioua consideration, with a view to the protection of the oommunity from tho infection. The memorial includes these remarks :— lt Is believed that tuberoulosis is fairly to be compared, as regards its infeotious quality, if not with typhuß and ewall'pox, at least with typhoid or enteric fever, althoogh the mode and channel of the Infection may be so different is to make it much less obviously dangerous to live in the same house or room with a case of consumption than it would ba in the oase of one of tho well-known contagiouß fevers. The Town Counoil by its action in prohibiting the Bale of tuberculous meat and milk haß, in our opinion, very properly endeavoured to grapple with one Borneo oi tho infeotion. If the publio wero authoritively informed o! the harmful nature oi all discharges from tubejroulous persons, acd more particularly from oases ol con^ sumption of the lungs, and it they were encouraged to have these discharges rendered inncouou*, and aleo to submit their hcuiiea end olothing to disinfection at intern vali dating the ourrenoy of the diseaso, and again at .iti oloee, it is believed that muoh good would result. It ifl not generally known that King Maliatoa onoo lost a portion of his roalm at "poker." Hil opponent, we aro told, waa a paymaster in tha American navy, and the funds with whioh hia Majesty Btarted to play consisted of 27 dol, a worn-out naval officer's suit, and a secondhand Snider rifle. The game was played without a " limit," and tho time oame when the paymaster, who had several months' pay in his pocket, placed 576d0l on the table. The King being now out of funds BBk'3d that hiß word might bo taken for tht . amount. This requeat was refused, ant Malietoa then offered to put up the island oi ilanono sgainatthe sum. A deed of transfer was executed on the spot ; the game pro ceeded, and Malietoa lost, AVhon tho nifaii oame to tho knowledge of tho American Consul at Apia ho ordered the paymaster tc return the deed to tho King. This ho did, receiving iv exohange a uumber of mats and othar Samoan articles of value. Malietoa haß never played poker since. The most astonishing new version of tho "last words" of a great man comes from Lord Rosebery aud haa to do with Pitt's deathbed, Mr George Rose went ou record long ago as a witness to Pitt's having breathed hia last with theso accents : " Save my country, 0 God I " Tho Whig veruion, related by Sydney Smith, wan : " Nur.-»e, give me eooae barley water ( " But Lord Roiiebery eaye thoi the Earl of Beaoonsfield told him that an old member of Parliament who was in the death chamber averred that Mr Pitta last words, iv real sober earnest, were : «' I think I could eat ono of Bellamy's meat pies "—referring to a delioaoy highly prized at that time in London, There eeema in short, to be no subject on whioh there is snob, wide variance cf testimony and such general interest as just what wero "the last words" of a great man. There is one Btoi'y of Jenny Lind which I always recall with entiro confidence in its truth, becatiße it ought to bo true. After her return from her American triumph she was in Italy, and went one day from Florence to tho convent of Vallambrosa, to which tho young Milton went when on hia travels, . When she came to the chapol the monks, with courteouß and deprecating regret, told her tbat no woman could onter. She amiled aa she said : " Perhaps if you knew who I am you might let mo iv.' "And who might the gracious Jndy be I" asked tha monks, But when she said " I am Jenny Liad" every head bowed, and tba doorg were flung wide open. Then when ahe geared heißelf at the organ and sang where Milton bad sat and played, I can imagine the heavenly visions that floated before the minds of tho monks, and that they oroaaed themselves reverently ao thoy lieteaed and believed that St. Oeoilia had d«cend*| < -.G, W, Outl* 'ja 'Pwab

The -S. M, Herald haa the following:— A letter from one of tho Wealeyan miDßionaries at New Guinea states that great improvements have been made at Dobu, tho head station. The writer was the only one of the party who ihad been absolutely free from fever, whioh he regards as a compliment to the healthiness of Now Zeabnd, of which colony he is the only representative. Tho influence of tho missionaries has been wonderfully strengthened by Mr BromilowV success in curing a loathsome skin disease prevalent amongst tho natives. The inadequate number of missionaries is greatly felt. Within a ton miie radius of tho head station there are districts paoked with big villages wbioh teem with people. Close by are the largo islands Forgusson and Goodenough with their immense population, while further north aro the Trobriand (25,000), d'Entrecaetreaux (76,000), aud Woodlark groups, all these aro waiting for workers to carry them the Gospel, The P.ccordcr of Manchester having latoly attributed an apparent decrease in orimo to the Eduoation Acts, the Chief Constable of the oity says that, while not underrating tho consequences on tho masses of the spread of education, ho can state that there never wus a time when crimes wero so frequently committed by persons of good euu oation as now. The value of property stolen in Manchester by ordinary tbioves last year was .£0398, svhilo tho amount of which firms and individuals wero defrauded by persons of good eduoation, by forgery and tho like, during the same period was upwards of £90,000. Manchester, he says, shows a greater -pro rata diminution than other largo cities, while the Education Acts apply to tho whole country. He attributes the deorease of immorality to the activity of the police in suppressing disorderly houses in the oity.

The only linecof -battleship whioh remains on tho list of tin. Royal Navy, out of about 50 vessels of that oiass taken by us from tho Fronoh between 1793 and 1815, now forms part of tho Boys' Training School at Devonyovb, The establishment consists of two ships— tho Lion, a two-decker, whioh was built at Pembroke in 1817, and whioh gives its namo to the whole, and a vessel which ia officially described aa " late Implacable." In tho year 1805 this Implacable was the exceptionally fine French 71, DuguayTrouiu, Under Captain Claudo Toulfet, she fought at Trafalgar, but esoaped with M, Dumanoir's squadron, A fortnight later tho squadron was met by oneuuder Sir J. R Straonan, and, after a gallant and bloody action, was takeu. The Duguay-Trouin, wbioh loßt her captain and 160 killed aud wounded, was carried into Plymouth and added to the navy as tho Implacable, It is suggested that, upon her release irom her present duties, she Bhall be preserved at Plymouth, as the Victory is at Portsmouth, i.Ba memorial of tho naval architecture vi the days of our greatest maritime glories,