Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-26


k Hfpperhinorrhea.
Classic Secrets, Romantic suspieions
and Chivalrous Circumstances
Proving the Antiquity Of
the Disease. - -
Twas as the soft, sweet eve Of summer
closed, and on the weeping rose Of autumn
hung the dew OF silver-gemmed morning,
| that the hippozooty left its home in Cana
da, and ere long made its way to New York
| city. Even that great metropolis Of the
North American continents where lords
and foreign dignitaries are bnt drops amid
| the agitated waves of life, and the echoes Of
| the mightiest events are lost amid the hum
of energy, was startled, and soon the mighty
| pulsations of commerce, which shake the
whole country, grew beautifully less. Al
the perfected power which man has devel-
oped and constructed into systematic Cpl
Grafton, seemed to pale before this terror
which swept relentless through the streets,
seizing horse flesh everywhere, and
| spreading panic among the citizens. Soon
the epizooty bounded onward, visiting all
| the Northern and Eastern cities, until now
It has reached many in the West and South.
No place howave secluded by quiet valley
or defended by the wild towering mountain
range, has been able to escape the argus
eyed monster. The very sentinels of ma
lures grandeur, the hills themselves, seem
but places from whence it looks afar into
the fair and beautiful land Of promise.
The purpura-haemorrhagia, or hipporhin-
orrhea or whatever name, If these suffice
not, you give It, has history, and at q
tremendous expense the UNION AND AM
ERIcAK has added to it's corps of reporters
q graduate of the Veterinary College at
Hong Kong, who knows all about the dis
ease from the time Noah went into the ark
up to the present date, and he discourses
thusly:
THERE is NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
How oft has this well said maxim intru-
ded its fearful severity upon the world.
| The student in bis lonely cell, unlit by any
ray from natures beauty-self, when having
reared mighty fabric adorned with all the
architectural grace of the creative mind,
too often realizes that the Hottest grace is
that which sparkled on the dome of some
old literary pantheon, or cleaned q jewel
in the crown of poet or philosopher. The
| poet Of to-day may search heaven and earth
| for some word with which to tell his
thoughts, and after all the wanderings Of the
mind among the strangely beautiful realms
| ty, be forced to know that ether inteilects
have already wrought that which be has
seized. Aye, even he who
"looked and reached
His sickle forth and reaped the fields Of Heaven,
| And plucked the cluster from the vines Of God"
came back to the simplest dialect 81 the
street, the language Of the rabble. There
Is nothing new under the sun, and go
THE EPIzooTY is NO NEW DISEASE,
fact which Virgil establishes, as the fol-
lowing from the Third Georges says:
1.-THE Victor Horse, forgetfuI Of his food, -
The palm renOunces, and abhers the food;
He paws the ground, and On his hanging cary,
A doubtful s eat in clammy drops appears.
Parch'd is his hide, and rugged are his hairs.
Such are the symptoms of the young Disease;
But in Times process when ais pains increase.
He rolls bis mouTnfui eyes, he deeply gresns,
With patient sob5ings, and with manly moGns,
he hesves for breath, +=hich from his lungs sup,
And fetch'd from far, distends mis- Iab'ring side
To his rough palate, his dry tongue sueeseds,
And roapy gore he from his nostrils pIeecs."
WHENCE IT CAME
his deronent smith not, perhaps the auto
diluVian age experienced the epizooty and
Noah have taken iata nis Ark some old
fea-bitten animal afflicted VITA the hip~
pOrhinorrhea. And why not, sIlseS We are
to be left rsn Into the ark, upSetting Mr..
Noah into the water So he trie9 TO frighten
the canine from the stage plank, slong
which it ran and under the old mans legs.
THE FEBROBRoNCBIALIs
may have existed In times far earlier than
those when Homer sang to wake sweet
echoes mid lis sightless life, when Zoorsster
gave bis laws profound and deep and the
poets OF the Vedas wrote their marvellous
myths, and its origin like the pedigree of
the Rohans may lead Us to the door Of
Noah's Ark. Even those strange people
the Gypsies know much about the equine
malady,a las philloogsts have proved this wan
dering tribe to have some melancholy claim
| to the right of having come from Hindostan
originally, the uncouth exles possibly fad
in their native language, the Indie, some
thing Indicative Of the hippotimeroumen-
Oozletics. In fact human speech may
have been suggested primitiVely from
| THE COUGH OF A HORSE
| and the wall of despair, or the laugh Of de-
rision, have come from the braying of that
long cared quadruped. We find at the
present day an enthusiastically sincere, il
not unusually educated class or sect, who
insist that interiections are the original
| words from which all others have been de-
rived. Each successive stage of develop
ment working out its mora perfected forms
after the manner Of Darwin's great theory.
Not only do intelligent people believe in
such, but there is another set equally, per-
haps moro thoroughly versed in acoustics,
archaeology, etc who adcCt and strenuously
defend, what the great hnguist, Max Null
Ter is wont to call
THE BOw-Vow THEORY,
which claims that, especially the horse, the
cries of animals generally, and the voices Of
nature as having taught man his speech.
Already do we find DR.. King saying that
"Nature in many tones complains,
Has many sounds to tell her pains,
But for the joys has only three;
I And those but small ones: Hal hal he!"
1t is seen then that the long ami
NAL has, il not the prescriptive right, st
least that of custom to betray his own feel
ings in braying. Hence we say bis braying
may have suggested laugh, for men most
naturally laugh when hearing this indescri-
bable sound. Acting on the identity of the
animals uttersnce, celebrated author con-
cludes that a smile swoke the angels from
nothingness. aud man himself was laughed
into being, if not into speech, especially 80
since he has it recorded that both Merlin,
| LD6 Quhch, anu LOFUSoGSE, Luo phlOcOpucIi
when born, burst into fit of laughter, an
appropriate tribute to the sublime insolence
Of the former, yet mournfu commen-
tsry on the wisdom of the latter, an insinu-
alive illustration, which as reducing all
merit and worthlessness to a primitive
equality, would certainly cause the one to
grin and the other to weep, provided they
were alive. Thus it is the horse is related
10 man in more than concerns his CONNER
ciai affairs, his utility and speeches. nobili-
ty 1t was such an opinion as this that may
, have infused Mr.. Bergh with such absurd
tenderness, and rendered him an active
philohippic during the prevalence OF the
disease, showing how much more practical
is the philosopher than the poet. For il
HORACE KNEW THE EPIzooTY PRE-
VAILED,
he would not have attributed the absence
of certain cavalier to the sunlit smiles Of
Lydia or the influence oflove's bewitchery
when he so sarcastically asked:
> "Cur neque
Militaris inter aequalis GaIlica ne lupatis,
| Temporal ora frenis?"
} For that noble gentleman, the subject o
4 the poets mslevoient genius, had the cpl
; | zooty in his stables, and his steed wa
, ! coughing badly.
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