The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-12

H., Is no name. a sanguinary monster
/ IN the shape Of red-headcd Irishman,
clad like yourself, seizes hold OF you
places your hepd under a stream Of water
wetting It WELL wish large sponge for
YOU 10 place on your head, places
clean white sheet on
reclining couch, seats you down
on along chair and ask you to enjoy
yourself there are four of these divan' in
a row. In front Of You curtain, the
other side of which contains four more
chairs near the fiery furnace, the Their
moneter in the back apartment running to
l4o. in the front one lGO. After reclining
awhile in the lao arrangement we changed
to tie leo and remembering the fate OF the
three faithful Hebrew children (See Bar
clay,) took courage and swcated it out,
after becoming thoroughly parboiled, the
monster aforesaid again seized Us, and
conducted US into smaller apartment
| where he laid US on a marble slab, removed
the aforesaid cambria, ba,hed Us in tepid
water and at once commenced TO knead
and pound us from the crown OF the head
to the sole of our feet. Having finished
one side to his satisfaction, he turned us
over and rained down such n shower Of
blows and slaps upon US that our hesh
fairly quivered, il was in vain we expostu-
lated. the demon only chucked and re-
doubled his superhuman energies, until we
gave up entirely exhausted; at this stage
the sanguinary monster placed large
vessel of soapsuds beside US and with
brush made Of some fine fibre, COM
menced soaping and scrub
bling operation, that was perfectly
delightful after the torture We
had been through. While undergoing.this
soothing process, we heard proceeding
| from the next cell TO US, where another
victim, who wa. undergoing n shower of
blows, a deep gruf voice cxclaim go
ahead you cant hurt me, I am used to it,
We found, on inquiry, that this iron clad
n ividual was no less parsonage than
| EDWIN FORREST
| the tragedian. To return to our subject
after the scraping and rubbing was ln-
ished our red headed demon seized US by
the ankles and drew us down to the foot Of
the slab, put us in an upright position, and
Immediately lathered our head as he had
done our body, and put US through the
shampooing operation in double quick.
He then took rubber hose with an
immense strainer on the end, and turned
on the hot water sousing our head and
body in an entire deluge of the same. The
water commenced growing colder and
colder, until clear ice water was showered
rver us causing the skin to prick like so
many needles. This closes all the pores,
and prevents one from taking cold. This
is as far as most persons go. It's about as
| much as one wants to take. We asked the
lemon if be could torture IA any farther
He said he could by giving W the
"Douche." We were bound to go through
the whole thing or perish in the attempt,
| and we told him to DOuche ahead. He
immediately let on column Of ice water
from an aperture in the floor, which
stream struck us and raised US up in the
air. How far we would have gone there
is no telling, had he not at the same time
turned on another ten inch stream from
above which struck and held US until we
could gasp ont, when we yelled "Peccnvi,
which you know, IN Irish, i. for quit; and
quit he did at once. lie then rubbed u
with towels, put clean sheet about Us
and led US to the door Of the cooling room
and left Us. We were not sorry to part
from his clutches and told him So As
cendng few steps we entered Il large
comfortable apartment, a coy fire burn
ing in the CRATE and Il long row Of divans
stretching across the room. We laid
down on one Of these was covered over
with blanket by an attendant and
fit supremely comfortable. And here i,
where the luxury comes in. We forgot al
about taxes, insurance or whether w
owed any one or not, and if we did, W,
forgavc them from that moment After a
thorough cooling Of we rose from out
comfortable couch, adjourned to the dress
lng-room, danncl our cothe. and left tn,
house, feeling a. least score of year
younger Iire IL T,,rkiM bath say we.
Having said so much about the bath, W
have but little room to talk about anythin!
els' In the way of Amusement, We hav
full supply-at the Olympic the Wynd
ham comedy troupe are doing incly-a
the Opera house the veteran Forrest /
drewing splendidly and playing with
great deal of his old fire Che was un
: usually good the night after ha ha,
taken his bath you can't hurt him. yo
see. At the Varieties there has bee
broight out this week one of the spec
taclcs for which this house is famous. Til
present one is called the "Necromancer
has been six months in preparation and
said to have cost over $4,000 it will, n
loubt, have long run. Next week W
are to have Nillson in Opera, when we ex
, | poet to see n delegation Of the fair ones o
Cairo here to see the queen OF song.
As ever, ZERUBBABEL
Personal.