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Show tear nml Cholera. A striking example of tho effects ol fear III times of cholera is tho following authentic fact, which Is recorded In the nowspaers of that titnot In ItUlor 1651, 1 now forget which, no hnd tho cholera In Wlen (Vienna) Tho professors nt tho great feneral hos-1 1 Ital In the Alserstrasse had thilr hindj ' full. Amanof thonamoof Prauzllol tiegl wns then nwaltlng sentence of death for murder, nnd tho directs of tho hos I Ital prcsmted a petition to I'.mpcro: 1'ranz Josef to grnnt n full pnnlon to this man providing the culprit In return re-turn would cousont to sleep In n bod from which n corpse of a cholera ictlm had just b"en removed. Tho emperor granted n full iwirdon nnder tho nfcresald condition, nnd tht condemned man wns only too glad tc comply. lie was taken Into tho hopl tal and ordered to lie down nt once In the nine lieil from which In his presonco tho corpse wai romoictl. Tho man nn dresseil nnd wmt to bod. In lees than hnlf nn hour ho began somltlng nnd in six hours ho died from cholera. Tho man died of cholera, which ho took from fright. Tho corpse runotcd from tho bed w as not that of n tholi rn Mctiiu, but of n man who IntthlstUnth from n gunshot wound. Tho ixierl-mint ixierl-mint 1II1I not Ink then In the iholirn viuij, but Ju l)iu wnrd forklii diseases H.jI llrmi. blsnl grass Is likely In provo n crj iminrlnut nonrcoof wcnlth for Mexico It grows In long, narrow blades, often to tho length ot four or flto feet.nn) these, whin drj.cntl up from silo tc cldo, forming n flexlblo string strnnget than nny cotton cord of tho sumo size ctcr manufactured. It U In great demand de-mand nmong florists rnd nmong innnu fnctun rs of s nrlous kinds of grnss gixuls nnd It is said to bo capable of being np-1 np-1 lied to mail) ucw uses. Hopes, cords lines of nny description nnd slzo ma be manufactured of It, and n ship's c iblo ot sis il grass it ono of the ikhs! blllties of the future. It Is nlmoat im I irvlous to tho uctlou of salt water, nud ia not readily deca ed or disintegrated by moisture and heat, II takes Its nnm from tho jiort of bimil, In Yucatan, through w hlch It w a formerly cxiwrted. Hoard of Trada Journal. |