Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-12-17
COrsican Brotherhood.

Mr.. George Augustus Sala, in the
illustrated London Neocs, says: "a cor.
respondent, for whose resp actability
and sincerity I can vouch, sends me
the relation Of curious case of what I
may term Corsican Brotherhood not
by any means legendary but bearing
on two living persons. I give but an
epitome of his story, emitting specific
mention of names and places. There
lives in city in Scotland we'll known
artist, man of singular ability and
great force and originality OF character.
He has brother, also devoted to artis-
tic pursuits, who is resident in the
United States, in one of the Atlantic
cities. The brother living in Scotland
was an intimate. friend of my correspond
ent's eldest son. who few years ago,
when he was going for the first time to
America, gratefully accepted the artists
assurance that every attention would
be paid to him by his brother domi-
ciled in the States, to whom he would
require no formal letter of introduction.
He had written to his brother, he said,
telling him the name of the steamer in
which my correspondents son was to
take passage, and requesting him to be
on the wharf on the day of the vessels
probable arrival. He added: 'Yeu
will see me standing on the quay On
his arrival at the port of his desiins-
ton my informant's son looked anx-
iously along tho line of faces on the
Custom House wharf. and there, to his
amazsment, he did see to all appear
ance the friend with whom he had
parted in Scotland. The identity
seemed to be complete and perfect. It
may be urged that all this may be COM
mon enough in the case of twins, but,
my correspondent goes on to observe,
more remains behind. There is an en-
tire physical and mental sympathy be-
tween the two brothers. When one is
i'll in body or in mind, the other. with
out actually experiencing the bodily
ailment, is uneasily aware that some
thing is wrong with his brother. 1t is.
in fact, the legend of the Del Franchi
family, and the real case of NM. Louis
and Charles Blanc over again. Are
these instances of exact sympathy, in
body and mind, between twins. common
or not? You will not fail to rem Gunner
that the Siamese twins, who ware ia
America when the great civil war hroke
out, took Numerically opposli,, sides.
One was vehemently Northern aaI the
other as strongly "secesh' in his pro-
clivities. But then the American civil
war would have divided Castor and
Pollux, and made even the Brothers
Cheeryble deadly enemies"
DIPHTHERIA AND PoRK.- "A medical
correspondents sends the Lancaster Nep
Era COD, mra;cation ia which he Or
CUES, a. N.-.o length, that eating pork
is ar ring cause ot this terrible dis
ease - prevalent. His theory il
thu morrill, appetite is created by
eat pora nd growing with what
it dis '.,. more morbid matter is
era It NJ il the "specific pork poison
is .o,r"-ted in exudatious deposits
from Use. s'iood in the throat" He ar
er"~ tn.i 40 the glandular system is .
g, >''n If organs for getting rid OF the
r'n'n 'ancy of blood-poison, it is easily
sen !, this oxidation is principally
manii.slai in the throat. He advises
parents not to allow their children TO
diet on pork and sausage, but to give
them plenty OF fruit and vegetables. and
they will then soon lose their unnatural
and morbific sppetites. They should
also sleep in rooms we'll ventilated with
fresh air but not in drafts, nor should
they be allowed to sleep several layer
thick in the same ROOM"