Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. [ARTICLE]

NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Indianapolis has a druggist who is a genius at advertising by street signs. Here is one of his gems, painted on a card-board by his own hand: “Stop here for a nice, freslr bed bug poison.” A cable car line is now in operation on Broadway, New York, an innovation that has been strenuously resisted for many years on account of the supposed danger to human life and the already overcrowded condition of that great thoroughfare. A home for epileptics was greatly desired by humanitarians in New York, and a bill providing for a State institution for the care of this class of unfortunates was passed by the State Legislature recently. Governor Flower, however, deemed it inexpedient to increase the number of State institutions at this time and vetoed the measure. A well-known practitioner of medicine in New York is authority for the statement that the grip is following the tendency of all other epidemics, and “that it is losing its virulence, though.still prevailing in ,some parts of the country. Very few fatal cases have been reported the past winter, as compared to the record of previous seasons. It has been the history of all great plagues that they run themselves out, even in districts where no precautionary measures are taken. Diseases die as as the people who have them. £<ie majority of men who devise fortunes to their children by will do not take the precaution of warning sons to beware of the methods b_ which the property was accumutosSd. Rufus Hatch, the New York speculator, however, deemed it his duty to warn his children in his will against gambling in the following words: “I earnestly desire that my children -shall not gamble in any way for money, as their father has had experience sufficient to serve for all posterity.” He also warned them against the use of liquors and tobacco in the strongest terms. The finding of the bodies of Rohl and Ballister, the escaped murderers who by some mysterious means managed to elude the officers while awaiting execution, in the Hudson river at Sing Sing, N. Y., not far from the prison from which they fled, opens a field for speculation and conjecture that should delight a romancer, but is not especially profitable for the general public. The story patched up by the officials that Palli ster probably killed Rohle and then committed suicide is very flimsy. Murderers fleeidg from execution are not likely tocGmmit suicide en route. The truth will probably never be known, but a more probable solution of the mystery is that the men were killed in an encounter with officers in pursuit, who threw the bodies into the water to save trouble, and afterwards “accidentally” found them. Mr. Ward McAllister, of New York disapproves of American millionaires taking a a permanent residence in Europe, and says that it is a puzzle to him why so many of our vastly rich people should leave the United States and settle abroad. He attributes the tendency largely to the fact that money in this country does noA bring to its possessor any especial recognition or importance. The masses of the people are too independent and are not obsequious to wealth in any marked degree, nor will our common people toady to the rich as is the habit and custom of the lower classes in England and on the continent. The comforts and elegancies of life are within the reach of such a vast number of people of comparatively limited financial resources in the United States, that the glamour that great wealth casts about a person in foreign lands attracts but little attention with us. Hence, people possessed of large fortunes have failed to receive the consideration and deference that they feel to be their due, and have gone abroad believing that they will be more respected and admired for the sake of their dollars. William Waldorf Astor has been the most conspicuous example of this modern tendency, but there have been other defections sufficiently numerous to indicate a well defined movement on the part of our wealthy people to settle on foreign soil. This is un--fortunaU' and UJ be regretted, but there appears to be no remedy. Admirers of the manly art of pugilism who have carried! the figure

of John L. Sullivan in their hearts as the embodiment of their idea of physical perfection will be interested in the latest exploit of this hero-of the saw dust arena. John L. having retired from the perch of the world’s championship, now travels about the country as the star of a theatrical Company, and en route, recently, from Biddeford, Me., to Concord, N. H., a one-armed lawyer had the effrontery to shake hands with a friend occupying a seat with the pugilistic giant. This aroused the ire of the great man, and he proceeded to pummel the lawyer in the most approved fashion, being aided in the assault by a member of the troupe. Naturally they “got away” with the: unfortunate disciple of Blackstone. It is not especially gratifying to know that it cost him $1,200 to get out of the scrape, al though that punishment is better than none. Loss of money does not trouble a beast. John L- Sullivan has lost the champion’s belt for pugilism, but the world will accord him without reserve the championship for cowardly and assinine conduct.

Remarkable Results Achieved by a Japanese Physician. From Japan comes the news that Dr. Kitasato, who studied under Koch in Berlin and discovered the bacillus of tetanus, has actually succeeded in curing consumption in advanced stages by means of some new application of Koch’s remedies. The news was brought by Prof. Clay 'McCauley, of Tokio, who arrived at San Francisco, Thursday, May 18. He says: “The government has granted $45,000 to Dr. Kitasato for this year and $15,000 for each of the next two years to prosecute the study and treatment of cholera, abdominal ty phus, diphtheria and consumption. During the last winter Dr. Kitasato has accomplished some remarkable results with consumption. Four out of five patients who had been treated two months were discharged cured, and 125 who had been in hospital only a few weeks showed marked improvement. None of the patients had passed beyond the second stage nor had cavities in their lungs; but all were emaciated and had night sweats, several coughed 60 grammes of sputum daily. One had been in bed six weeks before being treated. All showed signs of marked improvement within a month. The sputum decreased and there was a gain in flesh. No publicity has been given to these remarkable results because the government hospital will not be completed before early in June. Then the announcement will be made and it is. expected that hundreds will flock to Tokio.”