Discovery of the Cholera Germ.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1842, 26 April 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

Discovery of the Cholera Germ.

It appears from the text of Dr. Koch's report to the German Government on his investigations at Alexandria that the choleralio bacteria were fully revealed by the microscope. In the blood, the liver, the lungs, the spleen, the kidneys, and other argans usually affected in germ diseases, no trace of these living organisms was found. On the other hand, in the intestines whole colonies were discovered in every stage of destructive and fatal activity. Details of this character are given, amounting, it may be said in general, to the conclusion that the severity of the cases was in proportion to the abundance of these germs. Dr. Koch does not, however, consider it conclusively established, strongly as the evidence points in chat direction, that the bacteria are the cause of the cholera. They may, he observes, be the result.of it ; or, rather, the infective matter which generates tae disease may brrog about conditions which favour the development of these organisms in the body. At the same time the body of evidence regarding this class of contagious and epidemic disorders leaves little doubt that the germs and the cholera go together. Dr. Koch finds that the nearest resemblance in previously identified bacteria to that of cholera is the thread-like bacillus found in connection with glanders in horses. In order to settle the question whether these microsoopio entozoa are effects of cholera, Dr. Koch and his colleagues tried to communicate the disease by means of these germs to rabbits, guineapigs, aogs, cats, monkeys, pigs and rats ; but these attempts, like all previous ones of the kind, failed. The cholera has never yet been transmitted to any animal but man. When the German Commission reached Alexandria the epidemic was declining rapidly, and the infective poison was diminishing in strength every day. It has, therefore, been arranged to pursue the inquiry in India, " the home of cholera," and if possible, to investigate some outbreak at its very commencement, when the contagion is most virulent. — London Telegraph.

When Hippolyte Cogniard took the direction of the OMteau-de'Eau theatre he asked Siraudin to write him a piece; the two friends had formerly written several piecea together. When Siraudin took his play to Cogniard the latter did not appear to think much of it. Siraudin became furious, and called his friend an unparliamentary name. Cogniard sent two of his friends to arrange for a duel. Siraudin replied to them : " You may say to my friend Cogniard that I do not wish to fight with him. When he was a doctor he killed too many people to wish to add me to the number of his victims. At his age, a person ought to avoid remorse.

Captain Hobatio Boss, Great Britain's most famous shot, is still living at the age of eighty-three, and last year olimbed a mountain three thousand five hundred and forty-five feet high without resting on the way. He is the only child of a sporting sire, and was born at Eosaie Castle, Forfarshire. His father was colonel of a regiment raised during the French invasion panic early in the century. When colors were presented to this regiment, a salute was fired, and young Boss fled in terror. His father, exasperated, told a servant to fire a gun over the boy's head every morning. At last the man persuaded him to fire at a sparrow. It fell, and thenceforward young Horatio took to his gun. Captain Boss was also a first-rate horseman. He was formerly a member of Parliament.

The well-dressed woman heeds the harmony of her colors, and is careful that the forma adopted suit the lines of her .face and figura. If she is tall, she does .not drape herself in meagre clothing; if short, she is not flounced •iround like a fancy pen-wiper,, V