MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 180, 16 August 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. John Badeock, mnnager of the Bank of South before leaving Melbourne for England, was presented witK.an address and a purse of 600 sovereign.; '..':.:;-, la the ' Scotsman* a curious controversy has been waged'on? the subject of '-Dirty Bank-notes." One side alleges that these-'paper-trifles, are admirable mediator the diffusion of small-pox. " Scotch notes," especially, are held to lie ao filthy and nasty •that .their smell is sickening. The other side admits. the jilt'imoss, but denies the disease-coin in a Jiic.nting danger.

Mr. Webb telegraphed- from New York to Messrs M-jleckan and Co. here, that the D.icotah sails on.' ; A.ugus& 10th, direct for Melbourne,'to commence the new service in October, and them to advise the Premier of New Seaiaud and the new Premier of Victoria.

Large English orders for preserved incuts have been received. ■>. ■ •

A rather good story comes from one of the Victorian •goidS'elds.- A German digger, who had the good furtune to be on the reef, wandered : into a newly opened miisic emporium with the intention of patronising the'establishment, but evidently uncertain in whiit way to invest his superfluous cash. After a whispered consultation between the proprietor and his assistant, a largo drum was produced, and the Wacht am fthein played on a powerful harmonium with drum accompaniment. The effect w:w (grand, and after having the inspiriting performance repeated, the enthusiastic foreigner showed his- patriotism by purchasing the dram.

A young lady with, a very-;pretty foot, but. a rather large ankle, went into a San Francisco shoe store to be measured. The admiring clerk, who is of G-allic extraction, complimented her in the following queer way : " Mad r am, you have one bootiful foot, but ze leg commence too immediately!" The oldest Tyne .collier afloat' is the Brotherly Love, of South Shields. She is the ship" on- board which Captain Coo)*:, the chvum navigator, served >'■ liis time, is in capital condition, and likely to " live" many years. - "'" " '" A . Buuinyong journal announces a birth as follows : —" On the y l7th instant, Mrs. William Waters of a son. Mother doing well; father "'happy ; child's weight", 161b 2oz.

The G-overaoVs term of office , has expired. He has received no instructions as-to remaining or as to his successor, "" " ".'

■ Mr. li. L.E.C.S, in a , letter to the 'Scotsman', says lie is able to prove that vaccination is not only a£-. preventive of disease but a : cure. It' is, he says,, ascertained that >vhen a person liab'o to take smallpox is exposed to tho infection the poison circulates in the bloo'd'lbr eight'days be- '. fore.producing any febrile symptoms ; then commence headache, sickness, pain in the back, suft'u-ed eyes, and a peculiarly white-furred tongue —a group ~of symp£oinsthat belong to no other disease, and \vhie& lasts for three days.' It.has been hekVand acted on pince .Tenner's great discovery, more" than, eighty years ago, that it is not only wrong, but fatal, to vaccinate any one during that stage of the dis-

ease, or the subsequent one when the eruption makes its appearance. But Mr.; Eurley. says he can show, from cases under his care, afc the present time, it'you vaccinate during the febrile stage the fever is. slightly increased, but the eruption does not mate its appearance, and if you raccinate during the eruptive stage the eruption is immediately arrested. Ihv inature lymph, overtakes the" ilnmature poison and the 3i»eaie.] terminates. If the eraption. has gone- tne length of hay. ing : Vaite tops, there of infection ;if not, it.dies away as pimples. Mr! Furleyfeels confident that if every doctor were-to vaccinate each case of small-pox that com? a under Hscare nt 'once, many hundreds of lives' would be saved. "In . the meantime, he invites members of the medical profession to accompany him through the patients he has under his care, and thus possibly i stamp out the epidemic in a few weeks.