Untitled

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2712, 26 October 1871, Page 3

Disinfectant, — The Melbourne A<je of the 22ud ultimo, says : —“ A trial of Sullivan’s disinfectant took place at the Morgue yesterday, by permission of Dr. Youl, the (Jity Coroner. The subject was the body of a man unkpown, wbh hj bad been found in tWYarra on the morning of the 17th, and remained for the purposes of identification. The corpse was very much decomposed, and, ip fact, it was only a close observation that could detect even the traces of features re maiuing, and the smell was sickening in the extreme. About half an hour after Mr Sullivan had obtained entry into the Morgue, the odour had almost entirely disappeared, and in a few minutes more there was no trace of it. He expressed his satisfaction at the absence of all smell, considering the state of the body ; and l)r Barker, who had made the post mortem examination, said that he could not speak in too high terms of the action of a disinfectant which had produced a change so marked, in so short a time. He also said that he thought it right to say that he was using a preparation of the disinfectant supplied to him by the discoverer, and very valuable in the ‘treatment of mapy disuses hitherto considered incurable,” A iqs'i'UKssiNu case of religious mania occurred at Launceston, Tasmania. A man named John Bartram, since attending the preaching of Mr W. Douglas, becaipe melancholy mad. All he would say was “Too hot, too hot—Tin in everlasting torments.” At times he became very violent, apet on one occasion threw a bottle at his brother-in-law. One night—or rather early in the morning—lip rushed out into the street undressed, pud whep told to go home Le said, “ J wapt to go to Jesus, this is not pry home,” Bartiam is twenty-two years of age, and said t> he of sober industrious habits, He was seat td the hospital for the insane. A printer recently made “ Be ye therefore steadfast,” the text of a minister’s seimou, “ Be ye there for breakfast.” “Ho honeymoon ” is the latest m rital announcement after “Ho cards.” An English preacher asserts that Heaven holds twice as many women as men. The man who becomes a liquor cellar goes a long way towards a basement.