Connecticut western news., 1884-12-10
WHAT STRUCK HIM9
The Mystery of Deadly AttRck Solved
 by Newspaper Paragraph.
IBoston Hnrald.1


 "How are Americans liked in England2"
 And Mir. B. F. Larrabee, of 42 Chester Square, ex-dreciur of the New York k Boston Despatch Express Company, who has recently returned from considerable residence in London, an- swered: "If they have good recommendations and behave themselves they are well treated, but they will like the English people, any way when acquaintance ripens into confidence"
 "How do the English compare with Amer icans?'
 The finest looking meu in the world can be seen on pleasant days of the London season, promenading Piccadilly. The English ladies, however, are neither so neat in appearance nor SD graceful of form and movement as the Amer jeans. but they seem to enjoy more robust health.
 Are English people longer lived than our people ?"
 T don't know. have not fully investigated But remember once hearing read a newspaper paragraph entitled Why do Englishmen Live Longer than Americans That paragraph, by the way, once solved a great mystery for me"
 'Ah. indeed, another tribute to the power of the press ?' suggested the reporter.
 "Yes, if you 80 please to cal it. In 1879, when l was rc-iding at the Commonwealth Hotel in this city. had occasion to do some business in Washington street When | got to the corner of Franklin. seemed to feel blow in the breast and fell to the pavement like dead man. When l recovered consciousness l was ken to my hotel. l first thought per haps some enemy had struck me, but my physicians assured me that such could not be the case and advised strictest quiet. For six long weeks | was unable to lie down. 1 was violently ill, and my physicians said l would probably never walk the streets of Boston again. I did not want to die, but who can eX- pect to live when all doctors say he cannotY And Mir. Larrabeo smiled, sarcastically, and expressed himself very freely concerning the number of common disorders which are con trolled by remedies which physicians will not employ.
 But how about that paragraph?' "Yes, yes. When I was obliged to sit up in bed day and night for fear of sutfocation, aud hourly expected death, my nurse begged the privilege of reading that paragraph to me. I refused him at first but he persisted. lt de- scribcd my condition SO exactly, that for the first time l began to realize what had prostrated me. I was filed with a strange hope. I at once dismissed my physicians and immediately began WaTner's safe cure. In a few months 1 was restored to perfect health, notwithstanding mine was one of the worst possible cases of Brights disease of the kidneys, which all my physiciaus-and I had the best specialists in Boston-said wGs incurable. tell you, when a mau gets into the q. sperate condition wss ill, he doesn't forget what rescues him."
 'But were the effects permanently
 That was five years ago. said Mir. Larra- bee, "and for thirty years have not been SO well as during the past five years If had known what ] do now, l would have checked the matter long ago, for il was in my system for years revealing itself in my blood, by fre- quent attacks of chills. jaundice, vertigo, ty- phoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, etc. etc. took over forty bottles before got up and over one hundred and fifty before was we'll have commended that treatment in thou sands of cases of general debility, kidney and liver disorder, etc, and have never heard i'll concerning it. Ibank on it.
 Speaking of paragraphs how do English papers compare with American, in th.s particular?"
 "Well, they have fewer witty paragraphs, but the smaller papers like the Pal Mall Gazette. St James Gdseiie, and Truth, aboun in sharp, incisive paragraphs without wit In general, Am, rican papers make the most Of news, the London papers make the most of opinion"