Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
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chews anything like injustice or cru
city to children on his part,-it must
remain an open question whether
these constant performances on the
bycicle are not physically injurious
to the young ones.
All classes of our city join in hon
oring the memory of the dead philan-
thropist, Peter Cooper, and his fu-
neral tomorrow will be of about the
same character as that of Horace
Greeley. The poor and rich alike
join in extolling the virtues of this
really good man, who has done so
much for the education of New York's
youth, and whose grand library is
the only real free one in this city.
Efforts are being made to suspend
business throughout the city to-mor-
row while the remains are being car
ried to the grave, and the Common
Council have offered the Governors
room in the City Hall, to have the
body lie in state for few hours be-
/ fore the funeral. When the will
comes to be published it will be
found that the old gentleman's wealth
was not near so large as is generally
believed, as he gave money away
right and left almost every hour of
the day. In fact, it is reported that
Congressman Hewitt, his son-in-law,
is by far the richer of the two.
Pneumonia is still stalking abroad
among us, picking up its victims in
considerable numbers. The idea,
however, that it is epidemic has been
fully exploded. There is always
more or less of it at this season of
the year, and its great increase this.
this year must be attributed to the
long, tedious winter we have had,
and the extraordinary gay season.
New York population, not only the
rich. but the masses are reckless in
their amusements. They will 90 to
the balls and parties in light and thin
clothing, expose themselves mean
while to the damp night air, and
without taking long rest the next
day, be once more at their business
early in the morning. Hence most
of those who fall victims to that
disease will be found among the ac-
tive men and women of our city.
Speaking of diseases, prominent
physician called upon to testify as
to the soundness of mind on the part
of testator whose will is now being
contested, has coined new name
for unsoundness of mind. He calls
it senile dementia, and in giving
definition of the same says it is a
partial loss of memory, though the
party suffering from the same may
actually play good game of chess
or whist. One of our journals says
that if the nature of the disease be-
comes generally known in this city,
every fellow who owes a tailor's or
a board bill will claim that he suffers
from senile denaentia.
Yesterday we had the first balmy
spring day of the year. Fires were
neglected, windows were opened,
overcoats carried over the arm, and
our avenues and business streets
crowded with ladies bent on shop
ping. 1t is such a day as this, per-
feet in all its respects, that makes
the New York shopkeeper happy and
causes pdter .fdmilias to scratch his
ear when he sees the drygoods bum
dies come home at supper time. But
then the good women of New York
have had dreary long winter of it,
when outdoor exercise was anything
but pleasant, and hence shopping"
a popularity Of their good nature,
was greatly neglected. Now they
are making up for it, and the leading
retail stores are being assaulted by a
regular phalanx of the best-looking,
best-dressed women in the world.
One would imagine that by this
time the telephone is pretty well
known all over the land, and is no
longer novelty to any one; and
yet the street vendors have once
more, and that, too, with considera-
BILE success, begun to trot out THEN
long strings with tin box at each
end, and there they once more stand,
talking to one another from one end
of the block to the other, watched
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same as some few years ago, when
the world was fist made acquainted
with the telephone. The sale of
these toy carriers of sound continues
even at this late date with an ex-
traordinary rapidity, and the street
pedlers who are blocking up Wall,
Broad street, and Exchange Place
are still reaping rich harvest there
from.
Booths Theater, well known all
over the country, and the best con-
structed in the land, will, after all
not be torn down after May L, not
withstanding its sale to a capitalist
who intends to make money out OF
the building. Its massive walls vii
remain, and only the lily constructed
offices and stores underneath will be-
enlarged and remodelled, somewhat
ON the plan of the Grand Opera
| House, which is an excellent theater
, and at the same time has underneath