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FACTS ABOUT Interesting Details frc Mickmo-) Surgeon A. H. Glenaan, United States marine .hospitalJ service, has made a report to the supervising sur- , 'geon general on the sanitary condition nf San Juan, Porto Rico. In the course of the report he gives some in teresting information in regard to the island. "Po^to Hico, the fourth in size of the islands of the West Indies, is quadrilateral in shape, a little over 100, ; , miles in lengthy and 37 miles in width, 972 miles to Key West, 1,175 miles to Port Tampa, and a little over 1,300 statutes miles to Hampton 3?oads," says Burgeon Glenian. "It is sepa rated from 'Hayti on the west by a .strait 70 miles in width. Off the 'eastern end there are a number of small islands, the largest of which are : the Isla Culebra (Snake Island,) and ' Isla /le Vieques (Crab Island.) "The Indian name for Porto Rico was Borinquen, which seems prettier ? and more appropriate than that of the Golden Gate (Porto Kico.) The island appears to be of volcanic origin, and is traversed from east' to west by ranges of mountains of an average t height of 1,50Q feet, dividing it into two great watersheds, the larger upon the northern side, ?ne peak of these mountains, Yunque, reaches a height .of"3,678 feet. ?There are over 1,300 rivers and streams,-30 to '40^f which, are navigable for some distnnn ces. "Politically, the island is divided into provinces or; districts-Arecibo and Bayamon upon the north, Ponce upon the south, Guayama and. Hitma cayao upon the east and Agnadilla and Mayaguez to the west. \ "The principal seaports are SanN , Juan and Arecibo npon the north coast, Ponce and ?Guanica upon the south, and Agnadilla and Mayaguez ?pon the. west. With the exception of San Juan most of t?rese are open Toadsteads, and vessels are ?obliged to put to sea in storms. "Guanica, 'where ^Gen. Miles first landed, i J protected, brit has. little shipping interests. 'Special . reports will be made upon, these harbors mi due ?ourse j fiter personal inspection. The population of the island is a Kttle over 800,000, being more densely "Bet tied in the western end. ,-Roughly, 60 *per cent are white, ;?? per cent are negroes. - No reliable census, of the country.dties and towns is obtainable, and if the island is included in the coming census of the United States special information s&ould besought npoD*:jn^..8tet?stics,^?'- sanitat^f?s t?ry in past yearsj^preyalence oTcon tagious disease, etc., and I recommend . that the bureau invite th?; attention of the commissioner of census to this matter. "The population of some cities is -eow roughly., estimated as follows : Ponce, " 4pQ0; San. Juan, 32,000; Arecibo, 11,Q00; Utuado, 12,000; .Mayaguez, 15,000; San German. 18, '000; Yauco, 22,000, and Juana Diaz, 38,000, with a number of other towns ? of over 10,000 inhabitants. The pop ulation given probably include the settled districts surrounding the towns. "Narrow gauge railroads run for ?comparatively short distances in sev eral detached places. One from San Juan to Arecibo is 86 kilometers long, and continues 14 kilometers farther to Camny. Another from San Juan to Carolina, -22 kilometers; Agnadilla to Mayaguez, '44 kilometers, and con tinue ll kilometers to Homigueros. Between Yanco and 'Ponce the-road is 35 kilometers in length. *"A telegraph system connects vari ous portions ?f the island; was poorly managed, a jd, I understand was owned by the'Government. Tt is now opera ted by the signal corps, United States .army. Porto oKico is connected with the outside'World by cable lines, which run to Cuba, Mexico and 'Panama; ?also to St. Thomas, Jamaica. This line is owned by an English company. "In normal times the average en trances of'vessels is said to have been 1,919 per year, of : 327,941 tons, of which 144 of'8i,SC6 tons were English. The larger number of other vessels were Spanish, German and American, it is also stated that the tocal annual imports were about "$7,500;000, and the exports'about double that amount; 25 per cent of these estimates were with the United States. Coffee, sugar and tobacco are thc principal expoits, with some hard woods, as ebony, lig num vitae, cedar aud logwood, but june lumber is scarce, consequently the buildings are mainly constructed of brick, cement and stone, with char coal and coke for fuel. Venomous snakes and insects arc r;-.re, and the wild dog is the only ?avago animal. It is also stated that birds and flowers are remarkably scarce. '?'San Juan, tho capital city, loca ted upon the northern oca?;, ? little east of the median line, upon high bluff and torcuou?> chao ne] <-?f entrance. It covers an area of ab ou: three fourths by a third of a square 7*:l<:, circuui allated by a stone wai", mediaeval in appearance. The buildings zr. of ' PORTO RICO. Dm Surgeon Qlennarr s sort. id Times. brick and stone, flat brick and cernent roofs. The oldest building, the Casa Blanca, was constructed by Ponce Be Leon in 1511. "The average width of the streets is a third of a square mile, circum vallated with thick walls and no chim neys, and 25 feet, with a cement foot walk upon either side, leaving a stone paved roadway of 17 feet. At least j two-thirds of the streets have a fairly steep descent to the water fronts equal to the incline of the streets leading down from the Capitol build ing at Washington. Heavy and fre quent showers of rain wash them very clean, and there are no cleaner looking streets in the United States. This is the superficial view; there are no alleys. In the rear courts there are between 1,300 and 1,500 pits and ce mented vaults filled with filth of years, whose condition is indescribable. They are located next to kitchens and cemented cisterns: the heavy rainfalls overflow them so that the back courts and area-ways are afloat. "The water supply of the city at present depends upon these cisterns. Many sewer and water pipes have been laid, and a good water supply system was projected by the municipal authorities. A pumping station, filter beds and reservoir are constructed at Rio Piedras, 12 kilometers from San Juan, and considerable large water mains laid, but the work was inter rupted by the war. An excavation has been started within the city heights for a reservoir. I have re commended that it be abandoned and stand-pipes used instead, for the rea son that they ar? less expensive, but principally that they expose less sur face to a tropical sun, besides less danger of animal and vegetable pol lution. V.'The situation of the city and the sanitary engineering problems con nected therewith are ideal, despite the i uer us ted filth and hereditary habits of the people. Now all the conditions of soil, temperature; moisture, etc., are favorable for the propagation of contagious and infectious diseases, only the germ being absent. "No city board of health is in ex istence; some appearance at vital sta tistics is kept ata local Court, and the average death rate is stated to be about 28 per thousand. : "Gen. Guy V. Henry has detailed Capt. L. P. Davidson, an energetic officer of the regular army, to organize a superior board of health for San Juan, which shall have jurisdiction over similar boards in other, parts of the island. This board will consist of Capt. .Davidson, 5th, infantry, execu tive officer and sanitary inspector of the island; the health- officer of the port, the health officer of the city, two members of the city council, and the medical officer of the United States marine hospital service as advice to the board, with supervision of the port inspections. Themain attention of the board will be devoted to muni cipal sanitation, and it is hoped that good results will follow. Gen. Henry has asked for an allotment of money from the customs receipts for the pur pose. , "In 1876 the English brig Orang? arrived at San Juan from St. Thomas with a clean bill, of health and no -sickness on board. In the course of a few days two of the crew sickened with yellow fever. This stimulated ?heauthorities to establish a lazaretto, and on July 16,1876, an appropriation of 14,013 pesos was made for this pur pose. A commission, consisting of members of the city council, physicians and a sanitary engineer, selected the Isla del Corbras for a quarantine site, and tte Spanish Government granted the concession. The first stone was laid by Goveroardo ?l'Generale Segunde de la Portella, December 15, 1877. Don Valentine Saez constructed the buildings for a little over the appro priation already mentioned, but the institution was closed July 25, 1878, 'for lack of funds. "The Isla del Cabras (Goat Island) is situated at the entrance of the bay opposite to Morro Castle, and is about a half statute mile in length by less than an eighth of a mile in width. It is unapproachable upon the northern and city sides on account of .surf, rocks and breakers, which have nearly divided thc island in two places. "Malarial fever exists in a mild focm throughout the island, with which typhoid is often confused, as I have observed in our own Southern States. Yellow fever is not epidemic, nor am I aware of a case upon thc island, yet there is no reason why it cannot bc easily introduced and read ily propagated. A suspicious death j occurred at Mayaguey. in September; j and possibly a case at l'once i ri Au gust. They were introduced by the I troops; and there w;:s nn further I spread, ? will make further report upon j th;s subject. I "Upon ?heUnited Staten assuming ? control of :bc island f>~ Pedro ??cl Valle was appointed port physician by the military authorities. His salary is paid out of the customs receipts. Dr. Del Valle is a native of the Island, a graduate of the medical department, University of Michigan, and speaks English quite fluently. ' 'About four years ago a Spanish troop ship introduced smallpox, and it has been more or less prevalent since that time. The old Spanish small pox barracks, within the city limits, were destroyed by fire yesterday, there by removing a great source of danger. "Several years ago (about 1880) a troop ship also brought yellow fever into this port. It prevailed exten sively in the barracks, with a number of deaths, but it is said not to have spread throughout the city. From the nature of the native popu lation the diseases would be mild, and they are probably immune. "In the few vessels which I have boarded ia this harbor I have noticed a number of immigrants from St. Thomas and the neighboring islands. The influs of this foreign population j is distasteful to the Porto Ricans, and I contemplate inviting the atten tion of Gen. Henry to this matter and the national immigration laws con nected with the subject." Pure Air For Sleepers. Th-i result of fresh air in the sleep ing room will be felt in the various subtle ways-in quieter nerves, greater amiability, brighter eyes and clearer mind and complexion. And, though the subject is often discussed, it is worthy of attentien when we realize its benefits, says a writer in The Christian Work. v There are several points to consider when ventilating sleeping apartments. First, it is important that the air should be pure, and the value of fresh air recognized. Then the physical condition of the sleeper should be thought of. The same amount of out side air and the same temperature can not be endured alike by every one. It sometimes happens that the admission of fresh air during the night renders thc sleeper uncomfortably cold. When this is the case, the object of the open window or fresh air current is defeated. A window raised a very little at top and bottom is better than a wide space. A transom opening upon a ventilated room is excellent for delicate people who cannot bear a direct current in a room. Study comfort. It is a 'well-known truth that animals must be warmly housed at night in order to thrive in cold weather. The fact is none the less true of human beings. Thought that is, intelligent thought-should be exercised. No fixed rule for ventilating at night can be followed on all occasions. Bet ter no outside ventilation than ex cessive cold where misery attends. Warmth and fresh air combined is the end sought. It pays to study this problem when we remember that fully one-third of our life is spent in the sleeping room. Aa one lady says: "Sleep is so much deeper and more perfect when there is plenty of fresh air in the room at night." The clothing worn during the day may always be placed at nigh where fresh air will find it ; and the same with that worn at night. During the day fresh air will thoroughly per meate it. If the rule of fresh air for the clothing as well as for the room is followed, there will be caven greater gain in the important matter of quieter nerves and brighter faces. As the season o; thc year when pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles are to be guarded against, nothing "is afine substitute," will "answer the purpose," or is "just as good" as One Minute Cough Cure. That is the one infallible remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if "something else" is offered you. Evans Pharmacy. - An old cavalryman says that a horse will never step on a man inten tionally. It is a standing order in the English cavalry that, should a man become dismounted, he must lie down and keep perfectly still. If he does so the entire troop will pass over him without his being injured. A horse notices where he is going, and is on the lookout for a firm foundation to put his foot on. It is an instinct with him, therefore, to step over a prostrate man. The injuries caused to human beings by a runaway horse are nearly always inflicted by the ani mal knocking them down, and not by his stepping on them. - Hostnn /fer ? ti Many old soldiers now feel the effects of thc hard service they endur ed during, thc war. Mr. Geo. S. An derson, of Rossville, York County. .Penn., who saw thc hardest kind of service ac the front, is now frequently troubled with rheumatism. "I had a severe attack lately." he says, "and procured a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, lt did so much good that 1 would like to know what you would charge mc for one dozen bottles. .Jr. Anderson wanted it both for his i wu use and to supply it to h is f rion is :nd neighbors, as every family should :uvc a bottle of it m :.!ieir hom? . not .nly for rheumatism, but; lame back; sprains, swellings, nts, :;:::i^:s and jams, for which it is nnc':;;3??ed:. What Man is Mm\e Of. . To build a 150-pound man only 14 elements altogether are needed. I;ive of them are gases-there is enough in a man to fill a gasometer of 3,649 cubit feet-and nine are solids, found in al most any handful of clay you might take up at random-that is to say, carbon, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sul phur, sodium, potassium, silicon and magnesium. In most people minute quantities of a few other things are found, such as copper, aluminum, manganese, lead, mercury, arsenic and lithium; but these substances are prob ably always trespassers. Far and always the most important element in flesh and bone is oxygen, and the bulk of that energetic gas which remains tranquilly compressed within us is something marvellous. In a ten-stone-ten man and weight of oxygen is no less than 106 pounds, and the natural bulk of it, if it were set free, would be equal to a beam of wood one foot square and 1,191 feet-nearly a quarter of a mile-long, or several hundred times the bulk of the body itself. Measured by the gallon it would fill 202 36-gallon barrels. Even bulkier, though lighter, is'the constituent hydrogen. Every man's body contains sufficient of this light est of all substances to inflate a bal loon that would lift himself, balloon and tackle. In the man, for instance, the bulk of hydrogen is over 2,400 feet-equal to the cubic space of a room 10 feet high and 15* feet square, and the weight of it is a trifle short of 133 pounds. Of that inexplicable gas nitrogen there is about half an ounce to each pound of body weight, or approximate ly 43 pounds altogether in a 158-pound man. It is about 20 times the bulk of the [body, and by no means likes being cramped up in a space of a few cubic inches. This is the most inert gas known. Its bulk in the body is 58 cubic feet. The reason it is said to be lifeless is that it hates every other element in the world; and, while oxygen, ; hydrogen, carbon and the other things, like the Continental powers, cannot live alone, nitrogen, like England, will not, if it can possi bly avoid it, live in company. From this trait arises not only all thc action of the human brain and t be strength of the muscles, but the terrible force of all the great explosives. While individually without any en ergy whatever, when it does chance to enter into union with other things ni trogen becomes the most energetic subtanc? in existence. The great ex plosive force of nitro-glycerine is due to azote. One of the most frightful explosives known is chloride of nitro gen, which goes off if the sun shines i on it, or if a leaf touches it ; and, in the human body, it is the breaking down of nitrogen compounds which actually constitutes life. Nothing can be alive without nitrogen, itself the type of death. The la6t of the substances o' any bulk in the body is carbon. There is, as nearly as possi ble, a sack of 21* pounds in a ten stone man. sufficient to make some 65 gross of leadpencils.-Jfarmsicorth }fayazinc. ---. j - In the Old Testament, although 1 a great number ci women are men tioned, there is but one-Sarah, Abra ham's wife-whose age is recorded. Whooping Cough. 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Zion church, in its session here to day, an address was delivered by Bishop Walters, of Charleston, S. C., president of the Afro-American league on the "condition of negroes in the South," during which he said: "In spite of all the present lynchings, the thing for the good negro to do is to trust in God, make himself solid with thc bet ter class of white people and await the result." Bishop Walters commended the stand taken by the newspapers in general in the north in regard to the present ne gro troubles in the South. Valor of The Volunteers. SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.-Brigadier Gen. Otis, who came ashore from the Sherman to-day, spoke in the highest terms of the work of the volunteer troops m the Philippines, saying their work throughout had been a delight to old army officers. Xo complaints came from them, even when exhausted from their bitter work under the blazing tropical sun, but throughout they showed the discipline of the regular soldier. To their bravery and implicit obedience of orders he gives unstinted praise. "There is no trouble," Gen. Otis said, "about the fighting on our side. The nameless man behind the gun and the all-too obscure officer have more to do with the winning of victories than many poorly informed civilians seem to ' understand." For frost bites, burns, indolent sores, eczema, skin diseases, and es pecially Piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve stands first and best. Look out for dishonest people who try to imi tate and counterfeit it. It's their en dorsement of e. good article. Worth less goods are not imitated. Get De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. Evans Pharmacy. ? - Joseph Lynch, who fought with Dewey at Manila, and has been a wan derer for years, was recently informed at Chicago that he had fallen heir to $50,000 by his grandfather's death. - In felling a very large oak tree on a farm near Boston the other day large quantities of grape shot were found imbedded in-the wood. 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