Danokhous to Live. Aro wo safe nowhere
from bacteria, somo ono inquires,
not even when wo aro Boaled up in a
vacuum in a glass case? Not content
with showing im that horrid monsters
claw and fight in every drop of water we
drink, scientific gentlemen have now
been microscopically overhauling a hailstone
and find that an infinitesimal
speck of the ice contains no less than
400 to 700 bacteria. They may ho tho
germs of smallpox, scarlet fever, leprosy,
naughtiness and crime. Not even ice
will kill them, for they thaw out and
wriggle ferociously. The invention of
tho microscope revealed wonders to
man, but it has made life a burden to
nervous people. Nothing is free from
microbes any more, nothing is pure, except
tho benevolent motive of one,
tho same inquirer, who lends a friend $5
when ho never expects to get It back
again.
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Vesuvius has been tlio scene of many
destructive eruptiotiB since tho year A.
D. 70, when Ilerculaneum and Pompeii
wero completely destroyed. In December
HIM, there was an outburst which
lasted until February, UV.Y2, ami caused
incalculable damage to life and property.
In 1770 nn enormous mass of rock, 108
feet in circumference, was (lung up into
the air for a tremendous distance, and
in 1S2J the whole top of the mountain
was completely destroyed and a great
chasm formed, which measured three
miles around and 2,000 feet in depth.
The last eruption was in 1870, but tho
volcano is still smoldering, and any
day may witness another outbreak and
worse devastations than ever.
Dr. Gibier'a conviction that Dr.
Koch's discovery is a scientific delusion
is shared by a good many investigators.
