The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-27
WHAT s1KuOk MN!
Tho Mystery Of II Deadly Attack soiNe'
by Newspaper Paragraph.


"How are Americans liked in Eng
land?"
And Mr.. u. Il. Larrabee, of y Chester
square, px.diraCtol of the New York %
Boston Despatch Express company, who
has recently returned from a considers
bic residence in London, answered. III
they nave good recommendations ana
behave themselves they are well treated,
bat iheN will like the English people,
anyway, when acquaintance ripens INTO
confidence"
GLOW do the English compare with
AmeritansY"
"rhe finest locking men in the world
can be secu on pleasant days OF the Lon
don season, prOmonudlnS Plc'auiily
The English ladies', however, are
neither SO neat in appearance nor so
graceful of form and movements as the
Americans, but they seem To ENJOY
more robust healvh."
Are English people longer lived than
our peOple?"
~ don't know. ! have not fully in
yestigaled. But remember once hear.
ing read IL newspaper paragraph entit-
led why do Engiishmen Live Longer
than Americans?' That paragraph, by
the way, once solved great mystery
for me-"
AN, indeed, another tribute to the
power OF tho press'?' suggested tho re-
porter.
+" Yes, il you so please to call it. In
1879, when 1 was residing at the Com
mon weal.h ho,el, in this ctty i had oc-
casiou to do some business in washing
Ton street. When | got 10 the corner Of
Franklin, | seemed TO feel blow i'll the
breast aud Hell 70 the pavement liLe d
dead man. Wboa | recovered con
I roll N 1
first thought perhaps some enemy had
struck me, rat my physicians assured
me that such could not be the case and
advised stricteSt quiet. For SIX 10 &
weeks | was unable 20 lie down. / was
violently i'll, and my physicians sad L
would probably never walk the streets
of Boston again. | did not want to die,
but who can expect to llVe wheh al uoc-
tors say ne cannot" And Mr.. Lara
bee smiled, sarcastcaIly, and expressed
himself veIy freely concerning the
number of common disorders which are
com oiled by remedies which physicians
VIII no. employ.
"But how about that paragraph?"
Yes, yes. When 1 was Obliged to sit
up in bed day and night for fear OF suf-
fcation, aud hourly expected death, my
nurse begged the privilege Of reading
that paragraph TO me. | refused MIN at
first but he persisted. l. described my
condition so exactly, that for the first
time / began to realize what had pros
tratod me. ! was filled with strange
hope. | at once dismissed my physi-
clans and imp' ediatoly began Warmers
safe euro. In a few months, ! was re-
stored to perfect health, notwithstand-
ing mine was one Of the worst possible
tses of h.'igb3s disease OF the kidneys,
which all my physicians, and l had the
best specialists in Boston,-saiu was in
curable. | tell you, when man gets
iuto the desperate coDdiyion | was in,
he doesn't fOiSet what reScueS him."
''But were The effects permanentY'
"rnaC was five years ago. said Mr..
Larrabee, "and for thirty years | have
not been 80 well as during che past i've
years. If had known what | do now
/ wonld have checked the mat
Ter long ago, for it was in
my system for years, revealing itself III
my blood, by frequent attacks of chills,
jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nerv-
BUSINESS, wakeiul nights, etc.,- etc.
took over forty bottles before | got up
and over one hundred and fifty before |
was well. I have commended that
treatment in thousands of cases of
general debility, kidney and liver dis
order, ETC., and have never heard III
concerning it. bank on it,
"Speaking OF paragraphs, how do
English papers compare with American
in this particularly"
"Well, they have fewer witty para
graphs, but the smaller papers, like The
Pail Mall Gazette, ST. James Gazette,
and Truth, abound in sharp, incisive
paragraphs without wit. In general,
American papers make the most Of
news, the London papers make the most
OF opinlon."--- Boston Herald.