Here', a Grip Microbe-
I)r. William I). Gentry, of Chicago,
claims to be a possessor of a microbe
of the grip, the first ever captured or
even heard of. The little wriggler is
imprisoned on the glass slide of Dr.
Gentry's big microscope and was care
fully inspected by many a scientific
eye.
Kvcr since the grip made its ap
pearance a year ago, said the doctor,
he has been on the still-hunt for the
micro1cs, if any existed. He found
that thirty-four years ago, and again at
sixteen years ago, grip was epidemic
among human beings, and seventeen
years ago it attacked horses, causing
the still remembered "epizootic"
Owing to the recurrence of the disease
Dr. Gentry was inclined to believe
that the earth at such intervals passed
through a stretch of space impreg
nated with what astronomers call "star
dust."
Four days ago it occurcd to him
that he might trap some of the dust of
microbes or whatever it was. Care
fully polishing a blank slide he took
it outdoors and passed it through the
air. riacing the slide under his micro
scope, which magnifies 1,170 times, he
counted seven heretofore unidentified
microbes in the field of the instru
ment. The creatures were very live
ly, and seemed to flow or swim up
wards towards the glass. Ik-fore the
doctor could secure the microbes they
had disappeared. The next d iy, with
the Rev. Dr. Biggs, of the Rogers
Park Methodist Church, Dr. Gentry
tried again and found more. Again
they escaped, but by using micro
glasses he secured the next lot and
had them mounted for the micro
scope. His next step was to procure
some mucus from a patient afflicted
with the grip. A. neighbor, V. J.
Jefferson, furnished it, and to the de
light of Dr. Gentry the same sort of
microbes were found in the mucus
that had been caught in the air, identi
cal in every respect.
The grip microbes, as described by
Dr, Gentry, are generally of a round
form, varyirg occasionally in out-line,
but always distinctly marked by a
series of seven lines surrounding them.
Radiating from these lines are other
lines which, in the magnified image,
resemble fine irregular hairs.
Dr. Gentry's entire time is occu
pied in exhibiting the microbes to
brother physicians and in beginning a
technical account of the discovery for
the benefit of the profession.
Arbor Day Proclamation-
Whereas, the beautiful and useful
ceremonies of Arbor Day, which were
established some years since in Penn
sylvania, have received the official
sanction of our General Assembly,
whereby the Governor is requested to
appoint annuity a day to be designated
as Arbor Day in Pennsylvania, and to
recommend by proclamation to the
people, on the days named, (he plant
ing of trees and shrubbery in the public
school grounds and along the public
highways throughout the State,
Now therefore, I, Robert K. Pattison
Governor of the said Commonwealth,
in accordance with custom, do hereby
designate and proclaim Friday, the
10th day of April, A. D. 1891, and
Friday, the 1st day of May, A. D.
1 89 1, to be observed as Arbor Days
in Pennsylvania.
The selection of either of the above
designated days is left to the discretion
of the people in the Various . sections
of the Commonwealth, each locality
observing that day which is deemed to
be most favorable on account of cli
matic conditions.
The rapidity which our virgin forests
are disappearing, either from wanton
or earless destruction, or before the
untiring axe of the energetic woods
man, has caujjfd grave questions , to
confront us;" whose importance, from
both a sanitary and econnomic point
of view, cannot be magnified. It is
the bounden duty of every citizen who
is interested in the future prosperity of
the State to lend his personal influence
to any and every effort that has for its
object the encouragement of forest
culture and tree planting, not alone
upon our own lands, but upon the
public grounds and highways. Laws
intended to encourage this commen
dable work have been enacted, but
they will be absolute unless revived
and enforced by healthful public senti
ment. To this end I do most respectfully,
yet earnestly, invoke the potential in
fluence of the public press throughout
our State, so that the people may be
awakened to the importance of the
question involved in the establishment
of an Arbor Day.
I call upon the people to read the
newspapers, periodicals, etc., treating
on this important subject, so that they
may bring the best thought and ex
perience of the age to their observance
of the day.
I recommend that the teachers and
pupils in our schools, both public and
private, set apart ihis day and observe
it by recitations, essays discussions and
other appropriate exercises, so that the
youthful mind may be impressed with
the beauty and utility to be found in a
flower, a twig, a tree.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the Slate this twenty-fifth day
of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand and ninety-one, and of the
Commonwealth the one hundred and
fifteenth.
Robt. K Pattison. Governor.
A Dangerous Oonnterfit.
TWO DOLLAR SILVER CERTIFICATES
THAT ARE ALMOST PERFECT.
A sensation has been caused at the
Treasury Department at Washington,
by the discovery of a counterfet $2
silver certificate so nearly perfect in
all its parts as to be almost impossible
of detection. Heretofore all counter
feits of our paper currency have been
readily detected by the failure to imi
tate the distinctive character of the
paper on which government notes arc
printed, which is so arranged that
each part of it forming a complete
note contains a small silk thread run
ning through it lengthwise.
This paper is for the first time, al
most perfectly imitated in the counter
feit just discovered. So far as is now
known it has been used only in count
erfeiting the $j silver certificates of
the series of 1886. This note was de
signed under the supervision of Treas
urer Jordon and contained on its face
a vignette of General Hancock. It is
estimated that there are now nearly
$40,000,000 of these notes in circula
tion and the problem before the Treas
ury Department is how to get them
back into the Treasury and to substi
tute a new series without serious cra
barassment before any considerable
quantity of the counterfeit notes get
into circulation.
This was the subject of a secret
conference at the Treasury Depart
ment between Secretary Foster and
the leading officials of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. It was
practically decided to suspend the
printing of the $a silver certificates
and to institute a new series of the
same denomination. These will con
tain a vignette of Secretary Windom
and will be issued as soon as the
necessary plates can be engraved.
Polk-Lore And Folk-Cure-
Some of the scientists who make a
specialty of folk lore have lately been
making inquiries about the malady
which the country people call sprint
fever. It is a genuine malady, though
more disagreeable than serious. Yet
it should be taken note of. While the
scientists are inquiring about the mal
ady, those who are suffering the lassi
tude, nervousness and melancholia,
that are its symptoms, should run the
disease out of their systems by means
of that more subtle scientist and folk
curest S. S. S' This is particularly
necessary, since spring fever leaves
the system in such a condition that it
succumbs readily to diseases that are
more dangerous and less easily con
trolled. S. S. S. is a preventive as
well as a remedy.
Many people wonder whit becomes
of the great quantity of reports, tele
grams, orders, magazines, etc.. that
accumulate in a big railroad office,
A Star reporter was in the Lehigh
Valley Railroad office at South Beth
lehem, Friday morning, when a num
ber of workmen were engaged in pack
ing several large boxes with old re
ports, etc. H. P. Hamman, Gen. Supt.
Goodwin's assistant, was superintend
ing the work. The reporter asked
where the stuff was being sent and
what it was., Mr. Hamman replied :
"This is the accumulation of the past
10 years in all the offices along the
road. It includes reports, orders,
and all the papers that are used in the
conducting of a great railroad. There
are also a great number of magazines-
which ar devoted to railroad
news, and of each of which we get a
copy. Every office boxes up and
sends the stuff here and we load it in
freight cars and send it to a paper mill
in Philadelphia. Of course, the re
ports, etc., for a certain time back are
kept on hand for reference, and only
those that are useless are sent away.
This work of cleaning up is done
about every 4 ten years or so." The
papers arei stored away in such a way
that ready1 reference can be made to
them, and when the quantity becomes
great and there is no further use for
them they are sent to the paper mill.
South llethlthtm Star
The new tax bill that has passed
the House ought not to become a law
without some amendments.
The present bill taxes almost every
thing a man owns, and besides com
pels him under oath to state every
penny he receives from his trade, pro
fession and investments, also every
debt he may owe, big or little. This
information is then used in the public
prints, for upon it is based his assess
ment ana valuation. An exc. tnge
says, "This will give your friends nd
your enemies and competitors in busi
ness, full information in regard to
your financial condition. If you, how
ever, refuse to answer the questions
truthfully, the value of your property
will be first guessed at and then in
creased one-half, or you may have to
go to jail for conspiracy. You will
have to show how you got every dol
lar of your income. It is said that to
conscientiously comply with the bill's
requirements, you will have to swear
to the value of the coffiin in which
your husband or wife was buried, to
the actual number of your own and
your children's shirts, and of your
wife's dresses as well as the number of
bushels of potatoes in your cellar."
The Senate is expected to change
some of the objectionable features.
Literary Note. (
"A Son of Old Harry," is the unique
title ot a story by Judge lourcee,
which is soon to appear in the New
York JjMirjrr. It is one of those sur
prises which this indefatigable writer is
always springing on the literary world,
to the confusion of the critics, who
have no sooner got him fitted to a
niche than he jumps down and clam
bers into another. Utterly defiant of
ironclad rules, by which under the
claim of art they attempt to chain fic
tion to insignificance and vapidness.
he chooses his character wherever he
sees fit and portrays them with a vivid
lifelikeness, which compels recognition
and stamps each one indelibly upon
the reader's memory. "A Son of Old
Harry" is emphatically a horse story,
concerned in part with the evolution
of the trotter and is most appropri
ately published by the sons of Robert
Bonner, the veteran patron of the trot
ter, whose stable is the haven to which
the finest of the equine type is sure to
tend.
No reader of Judge Tourgee's books
can have failed to note his genuine
love for the horse. His equine charac
ters are as distinct and individual as
his human ones. In this equality he
is, perhaps, unrivaled by any other
writer. His horses are something
more than mere incidents of a story;
they are actual charac ters. Already,
those who have followed his works have
wondered at the scope and variety of
the types he has depicted. Old Loll
ard, his vicious but doughty son,
Young Lollard, and Jaca, the pet mare
of "A Fool's Errand," Satan of "Bricks
Without Straw," Sachem of "John
Eax." the trotters in "Figs and Thist
les," the bio ded browns and the rangy
Hambletonian, which the daughter of
the Engineer and the quaint old doc
tor drive through the pages of "Black
Ice," and Dewstowe's four-in-hand in
"Button's Inn," are not only among
the most perfect specimens of the
equine family, but are so linked with
the fortunes and personality of the hu
man characters, that they become es
sential to the action they are not
merely creatures but companion char
acters. To this vrried collection of
equine portraits, he has lately added
that magnificent picture of strength
and courage the horse which bore
Dan Periton ahead of the tide which
came,
"Hushing and roarlnif and thundering down.
Into the street! of pent Johnstown "
Though without the unlimited means
which enables the owner of Maud S.
to gratifiy his inclination, no one has a
better tittle to the designation, "the
horse's true lover," which a critic be
stowed upon him years ago, and no
one better than he understands the re
lation of the horse to certain epochs of
American life which constitute the
background of his new story, "A Son
of Old Harry."
It is a notable fact, too, that while
so fond of the horse himself as to
make the animal a distinct element of
almost every one of his works, there is
never anything "horsey" about them.
The flavor of the stable, the arts of the
jockey and the vice of the gambler
have no place in his pages. The gen
tleman, the soldier, the lady and the
lover find a companion, servant, friend
in the intelligent animal who at once
serves their needs and shares their
fortunes. He takes the horse away
from the groom and puts him on the
canvas with his "master. In addition
to this, We may add that his horses,
like his human characters, are always
typical Americans, whom every reader
recognizes at a glance as part of the
every day life of the country.
"A Son of Old Harry" is a title
which promises much in the hands of
such a writer, though the professional
horseman is sure to mistake its signifi
cance. The Paunsylvania Railroad's April Tour to
Ualiforma.
The third tour of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company's series to the Gol
den Gate left New York last week,
and now but one remains, which will
leave April 14, and undoubtedly cov
er the most desirable route, both to
and from the far Pacific Coast.
The special vestibule Pullman train,
equipped with its drawing-room, sleep
ing, library and smoking, dining and
observation cars, manned by a erew of
twentv-four employes, as well as a
tourist agent i 1 charge, and a chaperon
and ladies' maid to look after those of
their own sex, a stenographer and
typewriter, in fact fitted out even to a
barber, is this palace on wheels, whicn
will in going West traverse the States
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, and clown into
Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and
into California, where six side trips
are included, as well as three whole
weeks in the land of the sunny sky.
Returning the train darts directly north
from San Francisco, through Califor
nia. Oregon and Washington, stopping
at Portland and Tacoma, then runs
east via the Northern Pacific Railroad
through Idaho, Montana, North Da
kota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 111
inois. Indiana. Ohio, and home through
Pennsylvania. Tickets for the entire
trip, including meals en route and Pull
man transportation, together with sev
eral carriage rides and side trips, are
but $300 Application for space
should be made at once to Mr. George
W. Boyd, assistant general passenger
agent, Philadelphia.
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