White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-05-17
The Year Of IIumbux.

The Year Of Humbug.
Last year. was the year Of crime and
accident. This year, It is not go bad in
that respect. excepting 9 hcrrid murder
every day or SO, and two or three banks
robbed every night; bot it is decidedly
year of humbug. This. while it is an
noying. and keeps the public mind in .
furry. is vast improvement on murder,
accident. and robbery.
To commence with. everything eatable
snd drinksble is infected to such degree.
that people are in danger of starvation.
There is Trichins. or the hog disease.
which was discovered by sstute scientific
men in Germany. and strsightway made
its appearance in this country. 1t has
caused horrible deaths in Europe. and
some in Americs. Every strange dis
ease, for which the doctors cannot &C.
count, is placed to the credit Of Trichins
This may. for time. have the effect Of
chespsning pork; bnt we venture to say
tTat TriclIins is nine hundred and ninety
nine parts humbug. to probably one of
reality.
The English cattle disease is bound to
be brought to this side OF the Ocean, If
sensationists can do it. Some folks at
thsuE ast have become sick from eating
butter and of course. it could have been
nothing else than the cattle disease, which
had already commenced working upon
the cows.
The chickens in England have COM
menced dying off with some strange NAL
ady /; and also, the fish in the Eastern
waters.
Poison has been discovered in buck.
wheat cakes and we have even heard oil
several recent instances of men being poi.
soned by drinking whiskey!
A girl in New Orleans, "a respectable
girl, at that, it is said.) has a disease
which is pronounced to be the genuine
leprosy Of ancient days. Trichina would
not touch her case. and leprosy only
would Gil the bill. ra
The sun is even diseased. Spots art
appearing all over it. where it is suppos
ed to be cooling off. II trichina, cattle
plague. chicken disease, buckwheat cakes
bad whiskey. leprosy, etc, together will
the ordinary diseases. epidemics and cas-
ualties. don't kill off humanity in shor
time. the sun will "go back" on Us, AMI
freeze the world out.
Ghost1y and other supernatural mani
festations are abundant. Everywher,
there are haunted houses. strange appear
snces, and mysterious occurrences. Th'
Devil has been raging in Brscken Couu
ty. Kentucky. like roaring lion. seek
ing whom be might devour and 9 mar
in Poweshiek County, Iowa, also met tn,
same famous individual away mp there
At recent wake, in Indiana, man who
died in California several years ago. ap
peared to his wife, gave her q bag o
gold, and then as suddenly vanished
again, Hughes. the murderer, hung q
Cleveland the past Winter. has also beer
visiting persons who had taken an inter
est in bis case.
1t is now announced that the celebrated
English ketchup is made almost exclu'
sively of decsyed beeI's livers, seasoned
to give it the proper flavor. And il
New York. it has been revealed that th,
finest French brsniies are manufactured
ont Of cast-off printers rollers. II thi'
be SO, the public need not fret /: for ther'
.. are many nastier articles thst might b.
made into brandy.
But it is impossible to snumerats
tithe of the humbugs that are sffoat owe
the world. In fact. all is humbug, ant
> no reality. In the language of the poet
This world is all feeting show,
For mans illusion given"