Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07
To shake with cold in the month ofJuly,
And have every person that passes By,
Laugh and grin, when you are ready 10 cry,
Il too provoking.

But rather think when it comes their turn
In summer to freeze and in winter 10 burn, b..
with the Fever and with the Ague they learn
To stop their Joking ..O.
Yes gentle reader, when, "in the course
Of human events" you shall have the real
unadulterated ague, none of your yawnlng,
stretching and gaping klnd, but the genu-
inc article that admits OF no counterfeit, and
that will shake you like small earthquake,
YOU will in all human probability, come to
the sage conclusion, that it is no laughing
ulatter, The poet Empedocles, that Ho-
race speaks Of, undoubtedly made up his
mind to lint effect, when, in a cold fit he
jumped Into the crater Of Mount Etna.
Whether the burning lava relieved him
from the clulls, that like ten thousand ser
pents were crawling over and through eve
ry part of his body, history sayeth not, and
it must ever remain subject Of doubt. But
the fact shows that the agne is no modern
inyeatlon, no new yankee notion, but that
/ it dates its descent from the ancient and
honorable of oden times; that the noble,
wariika Romans have been forced to yield
to its power, and that we are but humble
imtators of our " illustrious predecessors"
We have seen the great and the small,
the aged who apparently needed but n
Jog to separate the soul and body, and the
infant that had just nude is debut upon
earth, apeirg Roman manners. by shaking
right Justify; but the negro, of oil bipeds,
shakes most ridculously. His expressive
countenanee is contorted into the most
unearthly shapes, wholly destroying all
the lines of beauty while the pearly
whlteuess of the eye, and of the teeth, add
greatlyto the effect. We chanced to see
one once, who had come from section Of
country were ague was unlnowa, when he
first made its acquaintance. Whether fear
or amazement predomlnated was doubtful.
II was upon one Of the hottest days in Ju-
", and Cuff had placed himself by the side
of fence and was holding on to the high
est rail with all his strength, to keep him
self still but finding all his efforts useless,
like Ce ar when he received the blow from
the dagger of Brutus, and like pany, other
great men, he yielded to Necessity, and
gave himselfup as wholly lost.
We do not intend to make sport Of the
asue, for as we have before said, it is far
from being funny thing to its. possessor.
1t comes with forty horse power, and is
altogether irresistible. Z 1t paints the rosy
cheek of health with golden color which
If not beautiful is truly enduring. Ii is a
king among diseases, and its train is long
and numerous, and like most other mon
archs, it il istreaclserous and deceitfu in the
extreme, making a truce one day and
breaking it the next, Although possessing
kingly power, its democracy is unquestion-
ale: for it visits not the rich and noble
alone, but 's;he people, ,and the whole peo-
'ple." Would you avoid the chains Of the
tyranta Never laugh at your. neighbor
when he is shaking; and above all never
mike gluslon of yourself.
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CouNTy or OrTAwA.--The bill erecting
this new county has passed the Senate and
become law. We DO not know the con-
tents of the bill, but understand that it