NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1343, 10 June 1881, Page 2

NEWS FROM ALL SOURCES.

The London Weekly Times, of 25th March, announces that an adjourned meeting of advanced Radicals was held on the previous Saturday at the Westminister Palace Hotel, Mr. Hyndman presiding. After considerable discussion, it was resolved to form a " Democratic Confederation." whose first objeots should be manhood suffrage, payment of members, equal electoral districts, nationalization of the land, abolition of the House of Lords, end legislative independence for Ireland.

A startling illustration of the performance of disease germs is reported from France. Seven sheep were turned into a lot in which the bodies of 12 sheep that died of anthracoid disease had lain buried for 12 years. Although there was no grass immediately over the place of burial, and the living sheep could only walk about and sniff the ground, two out of the seven contracted the same disease and died of it. Mons. Pasteur also finds evidence that persons have been made ill by eating vegetables grown on j the spot. These facts show that as yet very little is known in regard t» the duration of vitality in the germs by which diseaße is developed. The papers have recen.ly recorded a death of hydrophobia in the case of a man who was bitten by a rabid dog eight years previously. A. post-momtem Examination Society is the latest Parisian novelty. Its members pledge themselves to utilise their bodies after death " for the profit of the scientific idea " by leaving them to the anthropological laboratory, to be submitted to a post-mortem examination, or to be made use of for dissection or other purposes, aa may seem fit. A procesverbal of the results of the post-mortem will be drawn up at the lowest price for the information of the family of the deceased. Every mem must subscribe at least sfr. annually, in return for which hia autopsy will be performed free of charge, providing he dies in Pariß.