The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-12-20

The Newark Advertiser Ii the first of
the Newark papers TO recover from the
mad dog craze. And now that it has got
back TO its senses, il Uses TO remark that
not every biting dog is mad, nor is every
bitten person IN danger of going mad
that, on the contrary. there is good deal
more danger of the victim of harmless
bite being frightened TO death by sense
less newspaper sensation than of his dying
from rabies. Four boys have gone to
Paris, as the result of the scare, to be
healed by Pasteur. We have no desire to
decry the merits OF this accomplished
French physician, but the field for glory
is an easy. conquest for him in this case.
There never was any serions danger of the
bitten boys getting the hydrophobia, ard
If they had staid at home they probably
wouldn't have got it. But Pasteur will
enjoy the credit of having saved them, all !
the same. One of the bitten boys refused
to cross the water II he keeps as well
without treatment as the boys who are
now under treatment, how the community
viii laugh at this emotional physician and
these sensational newspapers that started
The quartette across the big pondl Such
arrant humbugging is almost without pre-
cedent. II is only another proof that the
American people find positive pleasure 10
being humbugged. "Vive la bagatellep'
There seems 10 be much difference of
opinion as to the cause of the scarlet fever
at Marion, some holding that the disease
sprang from the improper condition of
public school No. is, while others assert
that the evil was to be found 10 the filth
dumped on the meadows near Mr.. HIND
ley's residence. On the other hand,
plumbers say the building was in good
condition. while other authorities say
the filth alluded to was not re-
sponsible. We rather incline to the
latter of these opinions, for the
reason that two weeks before the first Of
the Handley children was taken sick,
well known physician told us that scarlet
fever and several other diseases peculiar
to children were unusually prevalent in
Old Jersey City, where, of course, none of
The causes said to exist at Marion could
have exerted the slightest influence. That
the disease was SO terribly fatal in the case
of the Handley children is probably
attributable to the previous condition of
the children. When the blood is impure,
the patient is not very likely to recover, if
the attack is anyway severe.
We present to the readers of the SUN
DAY TATTLER, to-day, as perfect local
paper as was ever issued in the city. Its
melange of Christmas story is varied and
interesting They have been selected with
the greatest care, after perusal of all the
seasonable romances with which the peri
odicals abound; and we venture to say
that no one will read single one of them
without marked satisfaction. Besides
them, we have added page of local read
ing. AT the same time the paper is as
full in its general departments asst always
is. Here is all the latest news the Assosi-
ated Press supplies to the other Sunday
morning newspapers. No man seeking
the days news has occasion to read any
other newspaper than the SUNDAY TAT
TIER. We begin our fourth year this
Sunday morning with an edition of 10000,
aud overcrowded with the favors of gen.
erous local advertisers. We are happy to
say that the SUNDAY TATTLER has grown
to be one Of the best newspaper properties
in the State; and we are proud to be the
masters of it.
We don't think it would be bad idea
for the grand jury to make an iuvestiga-
ton into tue causes of the death of seven
children at Marion from malignant scarlet
fever. 1t seems to be pretty definitely
settled that the condition of School No.
10 is not the explanation Of it, and that
likely source of the infection was the
dumping of night soil in such close prox-
unity to the homes of the afflicted little
ones as not only TO fill the atmosphere of
the houses with noxious and death bearing
odors, but even to faint the waters the
lit lie ones drank. We can not think that
the death of so many innocent children
should go unayenged. If the carelessness
or indifference of any person had anything
to do with the matter, he should be nosed
out and made public example Of The
allegation is that the man who dumped
the filth did it under permit from the
city health authorities. It's no wonder
that the city health authorities exerted
themselves to- fasten an unjust suspicion
upon School No. is.
| The SUNDAY TATTLER has no personal
linteres. in the contest for the Speakership
of The House of Assembly. except to see
the best man wiz. Of the candidates who
are menti ,ned, Assemblyman Corbin, of
| Union, is the preferable man. He is
brainy, experienced, posted. straight as
die, and versed in parliamentary usage;
and, taken altogether, will make the most
creditable Speaker the Assembly has had
in many year. These reasons why he
should be chosen are the things that may
stand in the way Of his election. The
men who control the organization of the
Houses of the Legislature are afraid, as a
rule. of intelligence, independence. and
unbending integrity. If the Assemblymen
that are to take their seats in January can
emancipate themselves from these outside,
unholy influences, and elect Assemblyman
Corbin for the one and only reason TINT
he is the man for the place. they will
show themselves to be above the ordinary
standard Of New Jersey Legislatures
Jacob Wocllen. the Greenville youth
who was so mysteriously injured last
| Spring that he had 10 suffer the amputation