why wily EPIDEMIC RAGE AT NIGHT it atas was in one night that four th busand persons perished of the plague in london it was by night that the army of was destroyed des deb troed both in in er england gland giand and alid on tile the continent a large proportion of cholera choler cases in its several forms have been observed to have occurred between one and two in in the coming the danger of exposure to the ni night 9 lit air air has been a theme of physicians from lime immemorial but it is is remarkable kable that they have never yet called in the aid of chemistry to account for the llie fuet fuel it is at night thit that the stratum of air ain nearest tiie the ground must always be the most charged with the particles of animal zed matter given out froin from the tiie skin and deleterious gases such euch as carbonic acid gas the product of respiration and sulphur betted hydrogen the product of tile the setters betters in the day gases and various vanous substances of all kinds rise rise in the air by the rarefaction of the heat at night when this rarefaction leaves leavea hey they ley fall by an increase of gravity it imperfectly mixed with the tho atmosphere while the tile gebes during the night instead of ascending remain remain at nearly the same lovei lovel it is is known that carbonic acid gasi gas at a low temperature partakes so deao dead nearly y of tile tiie nature of a fitall hull that it may be poured out of one vessel into another it rises at the e temperature at winch it is exhaled from the in lungs 1 gs but its tendency is is towards the floor or th the e bed of the tile sleeper tu in cold tind and uti ventilated unventilated rooms at flata flara hamburg burg barg the alarm of cholera at night in in some pars parts of the city was so great that many man refused to go to bed let lest they should be attacked unawares in in their sleep sitting up pi they hiob abl abi ably kept their stoves or open gires burning for the sake of warmth and that thai warmth giving the elpa expansion uio ulo nio n to any deleterious gases preset present it which won would id best b t promote their escape and promote their dilution in the atmosphere the means of safety safely were then unconsciously assured at sierra leone the natives have a practise in the sickly season of keeping fires constan constantly tj y burning in their huts at night mgt 11 ts assigning that the fires keep away lie evil spirits to will which IF I 1 in their ignorance they fever and aue ague latterly europeans have begun to adopt the they same practice and those who have tried it assert as ert that they have now entire immunity from the tropical fevers to which they were formerly subjected in the epidemics cs of or the middle ages fires used to be lighted in in tile the streets for the pt reification riff rifi cation catlon of the air and in in the plague of lor lot london I 1 don in in 1695 f fires ires in in the streets were at one time kept burning incessantly till extinguished b by a vio xio violent lerit storm a of rain latterly trains of gunpowder have been fired and cannon discharged for the same object but it is is obvious that these measures although sound in principle innet must necessarily necess aril arii though out of doos be on too smail small a scale as ma masuret against an ocean of atmospheric nir air air to produce prof luce any sensible effect within door doors however the tiie case is is differ different eril eill it tt is quite possible to heat a room suffice Buffi cin n ly to produce a rarefaction and consequent di aution ution ulion of any malignant gaes gases it may gont cont alli aill and it is of course lle ile tile lie air of the room and that alone at night which come comein s in contact with ille file lungs oi cf he person sleeping westminster review CT the first daily newspaper printed 1 in n virginia was in 1780 and the tiie subscription price was 50 per annum the ahe daily paper of that date was not eo so large es rs a sheet of of common fool foolscap scap scip and a dozen of contained about aa as much reading matter as one finds ill in a two cent dany of mir onrod day dar