Lady Montagu's Account Of Inoculation

"Apropos of distempers, I aan goo tril you of ia tliing that I nu .-i: ■!■ wil! miafce jrou wish yourself here. The nuiilli;ox, do general an'.l EO tatal amomg n, is entirely liarmleee liere by the wivention oí ingraftMU'X, whk-h is the term they give it heie. 'lliere is a Bet of oid woiihmi wlio mak.' il business to perform tli.' operatkm in the juontli of tember, w.heii the great heat is abated. Peopie semd i one anotlier to toow i; aky of tlr. ir frumüy has a mimi to have ithe umallpox. They make parties for ithe purpose, anti whea ü y are met- ■.oinmonly iiïteen or t-ixicen togetaiei- the o'.d woman comes iwltii a mutsliell f uil of matter of the best sort of umallpox, nul asks w.lvat vein you wiU please to have opened. She immediately vips open the ome th.at you offer to her with a large needie, whi.-h gives yom uo more pain. that a cominon scrateh, and puts into 'the vein as much venom as can Ue upón tlie head oí her needie, and after, Wnds up the little wound with a hollow bit oï shell, and in tJiis maamer opns four or five veins. 1 lie Greciana have eommonly the superstitie:! of opening one in the middle oï the forehead and in eacto arm amd ou the breist, to make the sign oí the cross ; bat this bas a very UI ei.ect, all t.he wounds leaving little scare, and is not done by that are not euperstdttotie, who choose to hiave tliam in the leg-s o-r in that part oï the aini ' . hat is concealed. The cdiildren or young patients play togetluer all the rest oï the day, and are iiu perfect healtli till the eighth ; tlieu the fever begms to sieze them, and they keep their bede tiro days, very selCom tbree. They h&ve very rarely alxve twenty or thirty in their lacee, whu-h nvr mark ; and in eight diays' time ;are as well as before their lüjaeee. W'liere they ure wounded there retoaln runnins i ores during Ui' lr rti-ttmper, which I doubt not is a eri-eat relief of it. Evei-y year thousaivds undergo this operation, snfl the Krenfch -ays that tliey t-ake th-e EmaUpox lieve by wny of diversión, ps they take the -waters im o'.lier eountvies.- Frora Lady Montagu ama llotlern . Bacterlology, by Mis. H. M. riumkett, in The Popular Science MontMy lor July. The democratie Ktate convention at (liand Knpids iaat week placed In immiiination tira píen lor Onlted States senators, Hou. Bdward M. l m, 01 Grand Rapids, and Hm. Jota Strong - he was Ueutenant goveroor under Wiaajos it wi:ll be rcmrmbered- o-i Monroe, for the ■■hort term. Of course tliis noanination was merely a (oniii'.iiiM'nt, with tio poeeible bearlag mpon the ohioice that a legislature wioulil ninUr. cvra if the state sh-iuld be eo uTiiortuoate as to have a oratie m.-ijority in hat body. The iioniimnüon oï Mr. Btrong fcarned the Bdheme int o si farce. He is ín 110 w;iy a representative man f hls party, in the state, and ciMi'.d never secure a haai Oozen votes the place in anv feglslatwre. K is to be hoped t.hat tii pepubüctiinfi wil) have morí good senee tluun to aiuiw their state n;iivmii,ni to attentpi to in-irii"-i or ; tiue ■work f the legislature, by pepea-ting tlüs soirl of a farce. ■■lic democratie papers are clapping thelr hands umi re'jototag over the rrciMiM-m ,ii the jury in the EUÍ8 .-,■)-!■. iiins practicaily BtunctkHüng corrupHoo in office. R ne ol t.he inliabitonts of Ionia- ivhu were outside the sbate institution looated there- gav EjIIís a great reoeptiom upon hie nvrivtil íiíirao aíter hls proeeoution, and iiviiui:-:': acquittal, fchus showing t.lu-iv vvnnmthy with questtanatAe ii-.-insnriiüiis in bi-li pQac6. The peo]'.(■ will ■watcih wilh i'.dixicty Uf antic of -tlui' same shieeta 'nul people wlien Misrs. JocJbkD "hI Hambitzer '■ome ui trial.