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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 187, 4 October 1872, Page 3

By way of impressing the ravages of smallpox in the pre-Jennerian period on people's minds in .a manner more picturesque than that of ordinary statistics, a writer in one-of the foreign medical journals selects the history of a few _ttoyal houses. Thus it appears that of. the. descendants .of Charles I. of Great' Britain, up to the ' date of 1712, five were killed outright by small-pox, namely his son .Henry, Luke of Gloucester, and his daughter Mary, wife of the ,Prince of Orange and mother of "William 111., and three of the children of James 11., namely,. Charles, Duke of Cambridge, 1677 ; Mary, Queen of England and wife of" William 111., in 1594 ; and the : Princess Maria Louisa, in 1712. This does not include, of course, severe attacks not fatal, like those of Queen . Anne, William 111., and others. Of the immediate deseendents of his co-tempor-ary, Louis XIV. of h ranee—who himself survived a severe attack of smallpox —five also died of it in the interval between 1711 and 1.774, namely, his son Louis, the Dauphin, and the Dauphiness,. his wife, in 1712 ;" their • son,, the Due de Bretagrie, and Louis XV., the great grandson of .Louis XI V. Among other royal deaths from smalL pox in the same period were those of Joseph 1., Emperor of Germany, in 1711 ; Peter Il:,£niperor of. Russia, in 1730 ; Henry Prince of .Russia, in 1767 ; Maximimilian Joseph Elector of Bavaria, in 1777. A well-known G-eelong millionaire went to electoral registrar's office oneday to take out a voter's right. When he was told he had to pay a shilling for it, ht demurred, and straightway took advice of his solicitor as to whether the charge was not an extortion. " The man of law soon undeceived his questioner, and charged him. half a,. guinea for- his advice-, which was,paid on the instant.