The gathering together of the pilgrims at Mecca has often brought plague, and nearly always brings disease in its train, and there is very little doubt but that the Bubonic Plague, which is raging in India, would be caught by the pilgrims, and spread by them over the whole of Asia and Europe.
This plague is supposed to attack only the dirty and unwashed, and as the majority of these pilgrims are filthy beyond description, it would be certain to fasten upon them.
This will be the first year, since the death of the prophet Mohammed, that there has been no general pilgrimage to Mecca.
We may hear a great deal more about it yet.
At last active measures are about being taken in reference to the terrible Dead Man's Curve.
Some weeks ago, it was said that it was to be done away with, and the cars run through a tunnel made under Union Square.
Nothing, however, has so far been done, and the people are getting tired of risking their lives, to oblige a cable car company.
At last the officers of the law have interfered, and the owners of the road are being prosecuted, for having their cars run in such a manner that it is a danger to citizens.
The president of the company was called before the Grand Jury, and said that it was impossible to run the cars around that curve in any other way than that which is in use at the present time.