Show ODD FACTS ABOUT CHOLERA Superstition Has Added to Ravages of pread Dread Disease How Disease How Rooks Were Affected j I Cholera has usually found ause a useful use use useful ful fui ally in superstition In the old days the disease was believed to lie bottled up in volcanoes and and to to be released by eruptions The most effectual ert way to avoid it was to sleep In bed with your head due south In Russia Russi during the terrible epidemics six years ago the peasants would not trust the doctors whom they actually accused accused of ca causing caus causing caus- caus s. s I ing the disease but drank a fearful mixture of tar resin and petr petroleum leum as preventives and fired guns from the doors and windows to scare the scare the cholera cool chol- era away What spreads the disease along the caravan routes of Asia is the habit of washing dirty clothes inthe Inthe In Inthe the drinking wells Rooks were the birds whose conduct in connection with the cholera was 01 observed ob- ob 4 served in Ireland in 1832 According to the contemporary Dublin Morning Register immediately the cholera came all the birds vanished from the rookery in the Marquis of Sligo's demesne demesne demesne de de- mesne one of the largest In m Ireland For three weeks during which the disease raged violently th these e noisy tenants ot of the tr trees es completely ly deserted desert desert- ed their lorty lotty habitations In the meantime meantime mean mean- time the revenue police found immense numbers or ot them lying dead upon the shore near Erris about ten miles iles distant die dis is tant tanto Upon the decline of t the e malady malady- within the last few dew days several of the old oid birds have again appeared in inI inthe inthe the neighborhood of the rookery but but I some of them seemed unable through I exhaustion to reach their nests |