The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-18
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oian remark that II he had to namc the oondi-
uon In which he would prefer passing into the
other world, he should choose the last stage OF
cholera-the collapse. II had to name oon-
uition NOT TO be preferred. IL should be the iast
stage OF trichinosis or of hydrophobis, thetwo
diseases most popular at present In this oty
and Brooklyn. A good many people have died
OF each. Perhaps the dread OF trichinosls is
greatest, 1t attacks in such an insidious way.
The mad dog we see and avoid, or at least those
do who don't get bitten. Or II we anger our
King Charles spaniel or our little Italian grey
hound up 20 the hydrophobis point, and get
bitten as the result. we have no one to blame
but ourselves. IL Is different with the
trichina, which dsceives you through
your affections. 1t makes she appe-
tite an accompIlce, you may be said to
convert sOme one elss's meat into your poison,
and TO kill under pretense Of curing, This
worm In swine's flesh 1t worse than the wolf
in sleeps clothing. The hendish boarding.
house keeper buys 1t cheap and SO the trohins
b0rrows the livery of pork to serve the Devil
In. Tie recent depravity Of a sailors boarding
house keeper. In Carlyle street, has sounded
the toosin. Boarding houses, larger and
smaller, more reputable and less reputable,
from the Fifth avenue brow stoners who deal
in the "unexceptiopable reference" business,
down to the three dollars a week bungalo ws OF
our Chinese GOthsmites, have echoed the
alAIms FEOn tue NdIlylS SIHSeb uOuSo SoNoLal
sailors carried disease and death with them to
the Now Y ork Hospital Pork was the cause
OF IL. Ante and post fnorten examinations
showed q large and appreciative audience OF
Erichine in attendance. And the coral insect
Cif may be allowed the flight for the moment
don't work harder to produce the reef thAu
this cobra al oopetlo OF the piggery
does to produce muscular pain ana
uneasipess. Hence, say, pig In any form has
been vetoed at New York b3a ding houses, a nd
nlr h6pOma 81 n.
vent OF sausage at the breakiast-table is the
signal for sardontc sllence, ham Is held up to
Abstinenps best boarder would give Instant
warning If bacon We're suspected IN the favorite
hash. And while New York mas been dying
of bad hog Brooklyn has been dead with mad
dog. In Queens county the canine mortality,
month. Two or three deaths in Brooklyn
alone have occurred within as many days, and
many more of the bitten are almost dead with
dread. Innocent but suspected dogs have been
shot, strangled, and drowned, the numoer tnat
have thuB expiated prospective sins probably
being equalled only by the number tGat, dur.
ing the hottest days OF July, yield up the ghost
selves were Beyond relief. me case of a Mr..
Ludlam, residing in BGooklyn, was parttcu-
The majority OF the cases, however, seem To-
have resulted from the thuughtiessneSs or i'm
Pr,aaenCe P,nse Of the sufferers themselves f The
that the authorities should do something or
The necessities of New York with respect to
markets Will soon attract the attention of
Councils. IL is likely that Washington Market.
for instance, whose architecture and surround
tngs are rather better than pil,sty, will soon
be removed to the foot Of Twenty third street,
North river. Ground Is to be obtained there,
between Twenty-third and Twenty. fifGn streets,
and Eleventh avenue and The river. and exten.
sive enough to cover from seventy TO eighty of
the average city lois. Fulton Market will pro.
badly be remodelled, but what II needs most is
to be destroyed and another structure .erected
in It's place. Gouvern eur and Franklin markets
are to be sold as soon as purchasers can be
found. Jefferson market Is 10 be rebuilt buttn
fact 1t never has been built, only Chrewn
together Two new markets are talked of, one
on Reservoir Square, and the other on the East
river, near Thirty. fourth street, OF ali our
bakers dozen of markets, Washington
Is the worst. II Is snrrounded by
undeIgrowth of sheds, barns. stables, stiles.
cabins, booths, cots, huts, and novels. like
caravoYseraS fallen to pieces, and, with the
vitality OF the benyan tree, spreading itself
around in tumble. down pent' houses. wherever
learn how to build market houses 10 be proud
see that the Philadelphia shipownera are going
TO teach those OF New York how TO manage the
coasting trade so as TO reap from IT. the highest
we want teaching more and that Is the use and
beauty of market houses. M II Provisions are
pleasure In spending the money. Wnen meat
Is SO much pound, the splenGor of the butch
II may not be generally known that the brill
nancy of the illumination of some of the scenes
In Romeo and Juliet, at Booths Theatre-Lhe
ballroom scene In the first act, more particu-
larly-is due to oxygen gas. whose illuminating
OF ordinary gas Oxygen being almost as cheap
to burn as IL is to breathe, will soon usurp he
place of the gas now in use. BY the time asst
river bridge is built Broadway at midnight
will be just twenty times better lit than IL Is at
that hour. at present, and the vivid shadows OF
street criminals will be their best detectives
There are several Icons in the worId. and
believe all of them are distinguished. In the
first place, there is the "Only Leon" the male
soprano, whose duplicate in this world or tue
next exists not Then there Ia Leon the circus.
rider. and Leon the novelist, and Madame de
SRfnte Leon, whose vocation Is unmentOuaole.
and Leone Leont, the Paris CORES pondent of
the World. Finally, there Is the Count st. de
Lesn, who is TO New York what Bean Hickman
ting into quandaries. aud, as q conseq quence,
into "quRd," If he had made a contract with
the ghosts OF departed city councllmen for
paving avenues, am convinced that he could
have achieved the work cheap. alone
and unaided, out of his own good In:
tentions" His love of luxury and
Ing hotel keepers and hack drivers, occasion
ally involve him In disagreement of opinion
with police justices. Represent his annual in.
come at the Micawbertan estimate of twenty
pounds, and his annual expenditure Will bt
represented by twenty pounds and an unlimi
ted number OF sixpences over The result o.
last heard of the Count he had been driving
wildly about in q baronche up the avenues
through the cross-streets, around Central Parl
and over at Harlem. When the drive was owe
being brought into court offered TO pawn hi
clothes In place Of giving bail. The offer wa
not accepted. .
Fisk has pioneered the way, and Belmont |
following II up. The Grand Opera House, tn
Academy, and all the lesser opera bou0e an
burlesque theatres ana nails, VIII & pfeSGy 500 90
and presume Money viii be played. Ohen
bach, however, hes dwindled within the pas
week before the classic composers OF dCalla