Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — Heaths train Hydrophobia. [ARTICLE]

Heaths train Hydrophobia.

A notable decrease in the number of deaths from hydrophobia is observed by the Registrar-General of London. The deaths from this disease had been thirty in-1869, and had averaged twenty-four annually, in three years, 187-1888-1889, but there were only eight in 1890 and fewer than in any year since 1868. Col. J. Sumner Rogers, of the Michigan Military Academy, writes from Orchard Lake, Miq£.: “In firing an eight-inch mortar recently we were successful in making an instantaneous photograph of the same, catching the shell about twelve feet from the mouth of the mortar.” The view of the cannon-ball is clear. “JaUey, my son, dake longer stebs unil you von’t voar out your shoes so quick.”