Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1875 — Danger From Malaria. [ARTICLE]

Danger From Malaria.

The extraordinary continuance of wet weather in most parts of the country, coming at a season when the weather is warmest and the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter is most rapid, suggests a danger to public health against w’hich people should everywhere take all possible precautions. There can be no doubt that malarial fevers will be unusually prevalent this fall, as a result of our midsummer heat and moisture. Possibly this may suggest to some liberal dosing with quinine and other drugs to fortify the system against such attacks, but it is not everybody who believes in that method of procedure. Chlorine and other disinfectants should be freely used about the house, and a cup of coffee every morning has a good effect. Much of the danger arises from damp air at night, laden with malarial poisons, w’hich the bright sunshine during the day does much to dispel. It is a good plan to have a brisk fire for a few’ moments in or near a sleeping-room just at nightfall. This will dry the atmosphere, and its poisonous malaria will pass through the chimney. Especial care should be taken at this season about the regularity of meals, and that the vegetables used are fresh and of good quality. This alone will do much to preserve health, as people w’hose stomachs are in good tone can withstand attacks of most kinds of disease.— Rural New Yorker. —A friend of mine and I came across a “ spooning” couple the other night, and a remark we chanced to overhear inspired him to relate this story: Not long ago, at a mansion on Murray Hill, a sentimental young lady strolled with a gentleman, on whom she had her eye, into the conservatory. Looking up pensively into his face, she said, with tears in her voice: “Ah, no one loves me, Mr. Barnes!” “Some one does!” “Yes?” said the lady, dropping her head, and pressing his arm ever so little. “ Yes, Miss Nellie,” said the wretch; “God loves you.”— Baltimore Bulletin. —Several ladies were sitting together on the balcony of the Clifton, Niagara, the other night, w’hen the moon, although “full,” was not demonstrative. A natty little fellow approached the group and softly said: “ Pussie, darling,” whereupon all the young ladies jumped up and came toward him eagerly. He selected one and w alked away with her. The other brides sat down, and told their respective Romeos afterward that it was “ too ridfculous for anything,” and that they “ never were so embarrassed in the whole course of their life.” ' - —According to a table issued by the Presbyterian press at Shanghai, the number of ordained Protestant missionaries in China is: American, 84; English and Canadian, 82; German, 16; total, 182. In Japan: American, 32; English, Scotch arid Canadian, 12; total, 44. The whole number of Protestant societies represented in Japan is 11. The whole number of churches is 48, distributed thus: At Jeddo, 18 ; at Osaka, 7; Yokohama, 11; Nagasaki, 4; Hakodadi, 2; Kobes*w; Shidzuoka, 1. —The mounds near Lake Minnesota, Minh., are being visited and examined by many people just now, and there is quite a revival of interest inlhese remains of the race of Mound-builders. In fact, no young lady in St. Paul is considered as belonging to the haut ton unless she can trace a direct genealogical descent from some particular pile of moldering brines in these mounds, arid a choice collection of decayed fragments of skeletons is quite essential to the comfort of every well-regulated family in the State.— Ckicago Times.