Show T FRANK LESLIE popular r month y for jan 1882 is a peer at lea stoof fe the many beautiful issues of this i deservedly popular monthly of its r rich and varied contents we mention i the interesting articles on ox new yorks york s water supply distin Dist ln guis lied invalid invalids in the land of K the pyrenees Pyre nees the drum chats worth 1111 hearing all of which are handsomely illustrated the principal piece of fiction is an in stal ment of gerald carltona Cari Carl tons leonie E empress empress of the air numerous other sketches ac fill the very attractive magazine but its greatest merit is its low price 25 cents per copy MR PAUL BERT bent Gam gabbett bett minister of public instruction is a determined adversary of the roman church and for that matter to all R religion his onslaughts ou on the 11 church are fierce and relentless even going so far as to become invidious and ridiculous thus he be lias has lately through the prefect of the district laid an embargo on the distillation til lation of that palatable liqueur chartreuse which is manufactured at the convent of the grand chartreuse in the department of the iacre after which it is named the monks will be financially mined ruined and the world have no more chartreuse wc ve expect that this cruel meas will make the minister very unit popular among the french who p though they be adverse to the monks are decidedly fond of the monks liquor fl 11 MRS BELVA A lockwood oon the much talked of washington woman lain lawyer yer is just now trying a case before the united states circuit court at boston being employed by a providence woman the springfield republican gives the following pen picture of hen her she is about 60 50 years old and appeared well in the court room her handle some matronly form was robed in a t black velvet suh suit diamond rings sparkled in her cars car and she impressed the spectators as both alert and able lawyer A A ranney conducted the opposition and in reply to one of his points mrs Lock wook said when you sir as a Legislator open the law schools and courts of massachusetts to women lawyers you may expect women to know something of the law the tile case is significant as the first of the tile kind in new england and from the fact that our supreme court recently refused to allow cowen to practice before it the island woman suffrage association ex expressed p its sense of the importance of the event by giving mrs lockwood a reception at providence HUMAN KNOWLEDGE would be greatly narrowed and human happiness JEC materially diminished had that delicate instrument the micro scope never been invented tills this wonderful instrument lias has not only revealed lev caled the mani magnitude tude and importance of the uns unseen e en world about us and shown us many hidden bidden marvels but it has furnished a means of studying disease which will never cease to be an inestimable boon it has shown that the animal body is preyed upon by a dariety of organisms producing diseases whose cause would never have been suspected without ita its aid the know edge thua thus gained lias has in several instances led to ta the discovery of methods of rendering the th attacks of the minute parasites comparatively harmless thus conquering certain dreaded maladies observations of this kind are only of i ery very recent date but the progress made lias has been very remarkable all epidemic or contagious diseases are now believed to be due to microscopic organisms in the blood and it appears quite probable that M Past eurs plan of vaccination L may ere long be successfully applied to all ailments of this kind with the result of greatly reducing a their 16 ravages it is hoped that these new ide ideas as concerning diseases may soon lead to a material les lessening of the death rate from such widespread wide spread disorders as is scarlet and typhus fevers and diphtheria truly great is the work of the micro microscope nope |