Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-09
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The readers OF The Star are aware of the her.
eulean and costly efforts of the citizens OF chi
csgo te secure for themselves pure water from
the Lake SKILL money and labor have been
nnsparlngIy used 10 accomplish this most de-
slraole end, but TO what poor purpose Is set
forth in the revelations of q CHICAGO phvSi
clan-J. II. Rauch, NJ. D-who saws in n
pamphlet, that what will be drank when the
blg job will be completed will not be even a
SIP OF puse Lake water, but a compound which
presents even TO the most distant reader the
most unpleasant suggestions:
according 10 The medical gentleman, there
Is a sort Of endless circle connecting the living
and the dead of Chicago lie saws that In the
cemeteries lying on the lakes, the elements
evoiyed oy putrefactlon are carried or drained
mo me axe, ana then, by the action OF winds
and waves are carried north or south to the
reservoir, and from thence are pumped throuph
the city. This completes the circle The hsarse
carries person from Chicago TO one Of these
cemeterles; and, in a year or two, the same
person in little different form comes pack 10
Chicago by way of the lake. If this be true il
Is, al ihe very least, quite astonishing not TO
say provocative of an uneasy feeling in the
vicinity Of ones epigastrum."
The Chicago Times remarks in great good
humor At the prospect ITO die in Chicago
Is not 10 asleep, perchance TO dream" but il is
simply 3 closing OF the eyes. a ride into the
country in a sombre carriage, and return horne
70 Chicago on the emerald waves OF the lake
The man who dies simply, ssundergoes lake.
change into something rich and strange. and
then comes back 10 the Garden City. A light
and airy gas. he rises from hrs grave like the
krhius hOul tne u0scdieQ casket. and. III he do
not assume form OF his own, he enters IN that
OF somebody else. IL removes much Of the
Physical terror OF death to know that to die, in
Chlcago, does not include everlasting secIusion
In lonely cemetery; but that IL means only a
short journey and an early return Its like
wise of a eonsoling character TO the bereayed
friends 10 learn that the death which thew
mourn is but temporary separation. Each
glass of water returns to them some of the lost
one; and each inspiration carries with il some
element Of the one for whose loss they sorrow
THE IRISH ExoDUs.-It is calculated that
within the past week upward of 4.O0O persons
left for America via Queenstown. two-thirds
OF whom are Of the middle and farming class
The farmers, il will BE- remembered were com
planning last year Of the want Of male and fe-
male laborers TO gather in the harvest: bur il The
emigration continues at the present rate ITO put
IL down at the lowest fgure) f.50O q week thew
will certainly have more cause TO complain
this year, as those leaving now are mostly OF
that class About 600 passengers are now
waiting in Queenstown 10 get away by the
steamers.-Cork EzamfRer.
sz-One Of the wickedest and most successful
hoaxes perpefrated on the first OF April this
year was the work Of lady in Philadelphia
she sent up 10 the pulpit, in Methodist
church, notice purporting 10 announce q
meeting IN aid OF another church. A NUMBER
OF names OF prominent ciergymen were men,
tsoDsd as 10 take part in the exercises The
preacher read the manuscript 10 MS large con-
gTegation without hesitation, until he came 10
passage announcing thar 4 certain layman
fused suddenly, remembered the day and
abruptly sat down. 20 -
cnIsELiNG ISADfQUaTE.-On the era yest,ss
Of an old lady in Daxbury Mass. after me
Dsntson OF her Iame, date or drath and age
The epifaph ASSERTS the seed Ieness of aiding 10
a weiI-established tame by The simple sentence,
The eaasei can't help her any,"