The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-01
Things in the Quaker City.
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What are we going 10 do with the
mongrel dogs that inhabt our streets? is
the question of the town. There is dan
ger lurking at every street crossing and
alley entrance, where vicious dogs are
liable to bite innocent children, and even
adults who are not over watchful. Every
year produces an even worse species
than that of the last, and every man
that is taken in on a breed, sets his dog
loose on the neighborhood to be kicked
and pounded by whatsoever will, until
their tempers are spoiled, and they are
mad from adversely. Hydrophobia is a
disease that quack medicines cannot
reach. There are many persons that bite
at all the nostrums presented for sale,
but as far as curing bites are concerned
there is none that reaches the hydropho-
bia patent. And it is matter of note
that cover the skilled medical profession
is in the dark respecting the cause and
cure of this terrible malady. The pill
grimages made to Paris by persons who
have been bitten bydogs, to consult with
a scientist by the name of Pasteur shows
how unreliable our doctors are here.
This man is not n doctor but is profess
SCR in a scientific school, whose re-
searches in this direction has been very
thorough. He has cured numerous cases,
and his name is widespread,
The circus is in town, and of course
the people in general act as though there
had never been one before. II may be
that all this furore is occasianed by Fore
paugh and Barnum clubbing together
and having an aggregation of immense
conception. 1t happens that Mr.. Barnum
couldn't get an available lot, and as Mr..
Forcpaugh had some years ago secured
one with a long lease, with the prospect
of owning Barnum thought it the better
part of valor to go into a pool on the sub
ject of circusses, and the result is that the
people are porting into the tents at the
rate of 10000 day. Perhaps the neigh
borhood of the show presents the most
varied attractions which can be seen this
side of purgatory. 1t is worth visit, and
if you can get away without being in
vagled into having your lungs tested, OF
the number of pounds you tan lift, OF
whether you are Bogardus. 1t is pande-
monium which beggars all description
Peanut yenders to right of you, peanut
vendors to the left of you, bowling fol
you to shell out; side shows of such q
limited capacity that the mans mouth
who is crying for you to come in to see
the wonders inside, embraces the great.
er part of the show; patent swings that
turn you up side down to look at them
boats that course after each other on Q
wave-like railway, giving person with 6
bilious temperament a very squamish
sensation ball throwing for cigars, with
a grand prize if you knock the high hal
off negro efiegy three times in success
sion; and hundreds of other attractions
of very small financial backing.
To ,he great show there has been grea
scrambling, but when the dismissal takes
place, there is a greater scraThling fol
cars, and it is quite sight to see twenty
thousand people go to their homes in 81
short time. The performance has al
the elements of the ones that have gon,
| pcioIej Will bilc eACcptiOh VI ich new
features, such as the pony that walks
rope, and the cowboys life.
The early-closing movement on Satur
day afternoon has been extensively ad
vertised, and in many instances adopted
1t is beneficial in a number of ways, ant
will fill base ball grounds and parks o
hundred per cent. To be sure many
men will never get any further than
beer saloon and their halfholiday will
be extended well into Sunday, yet ther,
are many in the thickly populated cit,
that by breathing fresh air for a few
hours, will add years to their already
failing healths. Yet it is hard matter t
break through old customs, and especial
ly one that has made Saturday the rea
shopping day of the week, on account o
that being the day when people receive
their wages and then go off and spend it
The talk of the President being JOINED
in matrimony as being carried on in the
newspapers has created no excitement
here among the maidens, as it generally
regarded as Folsome joke.
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