Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-09
Deaths Spring Harvest.


says the Tribune there seems to be pref
ty fair chance that the people in it will.
The latest foreign papers are full Of bills
of mortality. Typhoid fever is raging in
ST. Petersburg, small poX in Vienna and
Paris, diphtheria in Berlin and through
out Prussia, the smallpox has gained
fresh strength in London, typhoid and
malarial fever were doing good service
for their grisly master in the seaport
towns of Great Britain, while the plague
has appeared in it's old hunting ground,
Bagdad.
Here, in New York, we know the cause
of our prevalent disease from the epidem-
ic Of infamed eyes down to typhus, they
are directly referrable to the filth in which
we have been compelled to live. But we
are not the only victims; in Philadelphia
where the streets are quite as foul and
the drainage lowing to defective traps
and the level surface of the ground)much
worse than in this city, the same epidem-
les are found, with the addition of almost
universal lung and throat affections and
neural diseases. The "neuralgic wave"
which medical experts now assert passes
over the country at certain seasons is al
ways at high tide in Philadelphia. Dis
eases which belong ordinarily to summer
or fall are beginning to reap their harvest
in spring. To add to the aggregation of
horrors, DR.. Leidy, the psychologist and
microcopist, has recently declared that
the germs of almost every disease are to
be found in the dust of the street, and are
conveyed to the stymoch by means of the
meat and vegetables from markets, and
provisions. Let no man call himself hap
py over his spring lamb and mint sauce;
they are only wolves in disguise; tpphus
may hide it's pallld face in an ice, or small
pox lie perdu in strawberry.
From all parts of the country we hear
ofthe prevalence of diarrhea, cholera-mor-
bus and other zymotic diseases. 1t is
not likely that these are referrable in ev-
cry case to uncleaned streets and rascal
ly commissioners. A much more proba-
BILE cause is to be found in the fact that
the ground was frozen to an unusual
depth during the winter and that the
spring rains and melted snow lay for a
long time in stagnant ponds upon the sur
face; waste wells in towns and every
other receptacle of filth have overfowed,
and become breeding places of death.
Such winter as we haye had bring our
national ignOrane of sanitary science to
light, and if it is followed by steaming
intense heat such as we had last summer,
we may expect to pay for that ignorance
in a largely increased death-rate
-.-.
Mr.. John Burroughs, in his s'Notes of
a Walker in recent number of Serb
ner's MagaS,ne, described the delight
with which he heard stray English sky
lark, which had evidently either escaped
from a cage, or was a survivor of those
which were liberated in Long Island sew
eral years ago. He suggested that there
was ''no reason why the lark should not
thrive in this country as we'll as in Eu-
rope. Acting on this suggestion, Mr..
Charles II. Rowe, of Cornwall, England,
an enthusiastic admirer of Mr.. Burroughs
writings, has sent him a number of Eng
lish sky-larks, which arrived in NewYork
on Saturday last, and have been forward
ed to Mr.. Burroughs at Esopus-on-the
Hudson, where they will be set free.
DlssenSions exist in Mr.. Tom Hughes
Rugby Colony according to correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who