Show THE EGYPTIAN pestilence cholera is not a strange disease but it is fearfully fatal when once it takes hold and begins to cpr spread cad among a people it commits co sad ad ravages and it is very difficult if not impossible to stop it until it has bas spent its force upon the victims who are found in its deadly path and vand this is not until thousands of homes have lave been made desolate andrens and tens of thousands of the inmates have been carried off to untimely graves the glandular P plague laue some som 0 four hundred andred li years ago committed fearful ravages in in almost all parts of tho tile habitable globe some twenty five millions of human being fell victims to this horrible disease at the present timo time cholera is raging with terrible fatality ill in egypt damietta Damic tta appears to be the place whence the fell destroyer commenced it its deadly work and lias since spread to many man y other towns and mid villages it is feared that it will penetrate to alexandria and cairo indeed it is reported that two aft 0 cases leave appeared in the latter place cand and that both terminated fatally fatali I 1 the death rate from the epidemic was for some time about one I 1 hundred lu n and thirty per day but it is p Z now increasing these ally caused alarm throughout europe the nations of which fear a vial visitation tation of the plague all possible precautions arc are being taken to prevent such catastrophes moat most of he the european nations appear to be looking to the british government to see that proper precautions are arl taken and regulations enforced in egypt to prevent it if po possible nible from escaping from that county and spreading to other parts of tho world hut cholera la is a disease that laughs at cordons cordona cor dons and like the tile pestiferous ti insect flies over ever all bounds that may be set for it no man cr nation can eay say to it thus far and arid no farther thou go yet to adopt nil all the precautionary reg ula y tinna that can be ile made is wise w ise and not to do this would be crimi criminate cri minar nat negligence if the pestilence should once reach the shores of great britain bowl none can tell the tile result visitation or what other country would enjoy immunity from ita its effects effect when the cholera visited england in fell victims to the touch of ita its alamin clammy y hand and iu in 1854 were carried off by b it it 1013 3 thought by b some of our prominent journ journalists that if proper quarantine regulations are enforced at american forts ports and thorough sanitary supervision we an can keep the tile malady out of this country if even it break out in europe and cross the atlantic we lve should rejoice to know that their hopes vere were founded in this respect but we would rather it did near to thour our doors as w an experiment I 1 it is true that for yearn years past the people of the united states have lave been spared the horrors ef of a visitation from froin the cholera and find ve we hope the day nuy may be far distant when it shall make its appearance among among us again au an eastern gentleman who has wat watched elied and witnessed ed the spread of the disease from the time it a appeared p in E europe drope in 1830 and during its appearance and progress ss from that period to 1867 when it appeared in the aass eastern tern states believes if it reaches us at all it will not be until 1885 ilia calculations ara are based upon his recollections of the time it former took to pass pass from froin asia to africa and europe and arid from the latter country to this continent this of course is all speculation not to bo be depended on or 01 it may come and and find us napping and this especially in view of the rapid transit compared parc with the lif oriner slow mode of communication and travel the chicago daily neus of the tile dinst has lias an all editorial article on tile experience of the people ot the garden city wit with the dreaded scourge from ayli winch ich we Q make the following extracts cholera derived from the two greek words signifying I 1 flow ap leared in august 1817 at jesmore Jes sore india previously to that time it had been but indistinctly known prior to august 1317 1817 it had raged to a formidable extent to the south of ben gal agn thence it spread aspre ul into asia carrying off millions of human beings in 1823 it appeared in astrakhan russia in in 1828 at in tho the came same country in ili 1829 it spread over a great part of of russia in in 1830 it raged at moscow and was tamed curried by b a russian army 00 into poland propagated itself gli various parts of europe and reached england through tho tile port of Sim Sn derland in january 1832 it first appeared p eared on this side of the atlantic a at quebec and at montreal on june 10 and adnew at new york on juno june 21 of that ear it did not reach new orleans tit tiel october in 1832 it was brought to chicago by a broo troop I 1 under the command of gen scott ott destined e to operate against the indian chief black hawk tho the disease again visited chicago in n 1849 causing deaths one in in oo 00 of the population iu in 1850 it caused deaths out of ofa a population of 28 in deaths in 1852 deaths in a population of in 1854 1424 death deaths in a population of and in 1860 am deaths out of a population of 1 of course there are numerous kinda kind of medicines recommended by eminent in medical practitioner practitioners na as well a by many other others who know little or bothin no nothing thin of medicines their no strums are said to be pre ventie or certain cures but human life is too sacred and should not be trifled with in view odthe of the possibility of the epidemic spreading through eur europe ope and reaching the united states we have no fears but that the G governments OV ern national state and municipal will take time bythe by alie forelock and adopt euch such trica measures as will if carried outdo out do much to check the ravages of the pestilence and prevent as much fatality as possible all should bo be workers coworkers co in a labor which is for the common good of all |