Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-03-20
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s-he Mystery OTa Deadly Attach Solved
b. Newspaper Paragraph.
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"How are Americans liked IN Englnnd"
And Mr.. B. f. Larrabee, - Chester
Squsre ex-director Of the New York & Bos-
ton Despatch Express Company who has
recently returned from q considerable res
idence In London, answered: "If they
have good recommendations and behave
themselves the are well treated, but they
will like the Z lglish people, any way,
when aoquaiu ance ripensinto confidence"
How do the English compare with
Americans ~
"'rhc finest looking men in the world
can he seen on pleasant days of the Lon
don season, promenading PicCGdilly. The
English ladies, however, are neither so
neat in appearance nor so graceful of form
anu movement as the Americans, but they
| Seem TO enjoy more robust health"
Are English people longer lived than
| our pe0ple :"
81 dent know. I have not fully invcsti-
| gated. But | remember once hearing read
| q newspaper paragraph entitled Why do
| Englishmen Live Longer than AmericansY
That paragraph, by the way, once solved
great mystery for me-"
"Ah, indeed, another tribute to The
power Of the press -" suggested the re-
" Yes If yoI so please to cell it. In
| 1872, when was residing at the Common
wealth hotel, in this city, had occasion
| to do some business in Washington street.
| When got to the corner of Franklin, I
seemed to feel a blow in the breast and
| fell to the pavement like a dead man.
| When | recovered consciousness | was
taken to my hotel l first thought 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.
| was violently i'll, and my physicians said
| would probably meyer walk the streets
of Boston again. / did not want to
die, but who can expect to live when oil
doctors say he cannot ?" And Mr.. LaYra-
bee smiled, sarcastically, and expressed
himself very freely concerning the num-
Der of common disorders which are con-
trolled by remedies which physicians will
not employ.
g But how about that paragraph"
" Yes, yes. When | was obliged to sit
up in bed day and night for fear of suffo-
cation, snd hourly expected death, my
nurse begged the privilege Of reading that
paragraph to me. | refused him at first,
bat he persisted. ltGgscribed my condition
so exactly, that for the first time | began
to realize what had Frustrated me. was
filed with strange hope. / at once dis
missed my physicians and Immediately
began Warmers safe cure In lew
months, was restored to perfect health,
notwithstanding mine was one of the
worst cases Of bright's disease of the KID.
neys, which all my physicians-and had
the best specialists i'll Boston, was
incurable. | tell you, when u man gets
into the desperate condition | was in, be
doesn't forget what y. cue9 Kim. 80 -
y Put Were the effecs etii.,t:I5nt ?"
That was five years ago." Fnid Mr. Lar.
rabee, 4" and for thirty years have not been
50 well rs during the past five years. II
had known what do now would have
checked the matter long ago, for it was in
my system for years, revealing itself in my
blood, bS frequent attacks OF chills, jaun,
dice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nervousness
wakeful nights, etc, etc. l took over forty
bottles before | got up and over one hun.
drcd and fifty before | was well. have
commended that treatment in thousands
of cases Of general debility, kidney ant
liver disorder, etG., and have meyer EcaIt
i'll concerning it. l bank on it,"
- 81 eaking Of paragraphs, how do Eng
lish papers compare with American, II
this particular"
We'll, they have fewer witty para
graphs, but the smaller papers, like Tux
Pail Mall Gazette, st. James UdzCttG, an
Truth, abound in sharp, inCsiye para
graphs without wit. In general, Amcri
can papers make the most of news. tht
London EapCrs make the most of opinion