| Show EDITORIAL NOTES w c i the blava slava trade still flourishes in the dark t 11 A short time ago aga soo troops were sent by jay the tile Rhe khedive dive i of egypt to stop we the traffic in a district ot of the nile valley they were attacked by ilow liow arabs commanded by Sule hule suleiman imana a alave trading prince who keeps OB on hand a stock of female slaves for the market the extent exten t of th this ib trammie traffic in human beings may be imagined from the fact that one great trader can summon 0 so o many retainer sto defend uis his business we bre are in receipt ora ofa of a letter from rom elder henry rampton bampton ram Eam of bountiful who is now on a mission to europe he is laboring in the south coast district of the londoiro conference which extends over about 93 miles and reaches from hastings to portsmouth and southampton he is feeling well dwell and enjoying his travels and ministry he wishes withes us to stir up tho the saints in utah to mlle wile to their friends and relatives in the old country particularly after promising to do sor so before leaving lef leg iving the shores of ent Eng england land lind elder Ramp lona tona address bi 13 iciak care of W B smith 20 bishop bih Bis hopa bopa grove bills balls pond road london ondon JL mexico which is chiefly known to the world as a jand land of broils revolutions and bloodshed la Is to shine out next year in the interests of peace and industry A worlds faires fair is announced officially to be opened OP jhb in the tho city of mexico january cami 15 tb 1880 itis to last three months goods for exhibition will be admitted duty free and exposed without charge for space here is another chance for the extension of american commerce it is not to be expected that the mexican fair wiil will rival the Expositions of eu europe rope but the very attempt is an evidence of progress and the trade of is an object worthy the attention american manufacture ra the washington agton star scar has the following to say about that dreadfully fatal latal dibease disease diphtheria itis it is pre vail ingi lugi to a rem rel remarkable extent exton all over the world in this country it has hag exhibited itself itsek in a malignant form north south east and west it has haa shown itself in nearly every country of europe and in russia its Ita ravages haap been beep mare fatal even dan than the plague this thih T his dis disease fase pase which rarely occurs except as aa ac epidemic has only been known in khlil thi country within the laba last awen t y nive five years except in tho the ray vay way of oc cas ional lonal sporadic cases it has not yet been settled whether the disease is communicable by infection or contagion or whether the parasitic fungus frequently found in the false membrane is the cause of the disease or only its product following is an account of the birth of the largest baby of which there is any authenticated record the child came into the world in ohio january ath the new born abby was vas twenty three and three quarter pounds in weight the ordinary weight being about aag ut six pounds paun ds and thirty inches in height the ordinary heights being about twenty inches the circumference cum ference of the he hend head act wat was nineteen inches and the foot was five allf alif and a hait half inches in length six years ago the same woman became the mother of a child eighteen pounds pound s in in weight and twenty four foun inches in height the size and weight wk daht of bf the baby though extraordinary ardd arti proportionate to 0 o the size of the parents the mother arrs airs mrs al V bates of nova scotia i seven beet and nine inches high and the father a kentuckian is seven feet soven inches high the london hospital hob Hoe pital museum can boast no longer lodger of its giant glant infant which is only twenty four inches high with the head thirteen and a half inches in circumference 21 |
