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Show Sleep Themselves to Death. BOSTON, June 17. The American Board of Foreign Missions has received report from its American missionaries relating to the peculiar disease known as the "sleeping sickness," which is seriously serious-ly affecting Central Africa, particularly the kingdom of Uganda. These reports fchow that there have been 49.081 deaths wltMn the kingdom from the disease. It la- believed ahat the malady Is connected with the presence of the tsetse fly, which hitherto has not been supposed to be harmful to men, though fatal to cattle and horses. |