Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-16
What They Think of it.


fyou have "blgness'' of the head,
Catarrh and ringing" ears.
A hot and feyerlsh cutcle,
And eyes suffused with tears,
An AL gone" feeling round your waist,
And aching legs and hip,
Though FAR from strong" you're hardly sick,
You have not lost your grip.
If you have running at the nose,
And constant hts OF sneezing,
A chilly feeling down your back,
As though your spine was freezsng.
III in rocky" nervous state,
Like one In drunken frenzy
My friend, you've got the Freheh ia grippe"
Or Russian Influenza.
Following are the opinions Of a few
of the sufferers of ia grippe" who were
in the grip of that disease lately, and
having recovered, are telling their
friends what they passed through:
Will III. Garlick, the genial clerk of
the Rapley House, says he has been sea
sick, and that he has faint recollections
of what he experienced when he had
the measles, but for right-down misery
he strongly recommends ia grippe"
Tom Howay, with A. w. Ferguson Il
Co., had single round, catch-as-catch
can, with that aristocratic malady, and
came out victorious after hard strug-
gle lasting three days. Tom says of
the lot he prefers scarlet fever, cholera,
humps, etc., to common every day
case Of "la grippe.
Lutte Mcdonald, head sausage maker
for John Holden Il Bro. had it, but the
least said of his opinion of it the better
Lutte says that the feeling experienced
by patriotic citizen on the 9th of
July is nowhere.
Fred Currier was in Almont when it
came on, and for nearly week he
fought ia grippe" all by his lonely
away from home. Another encounter
with the canine that chewed the piece
out of his leg will be welcomed in pref
erence to a second dose of grippe"
Il. r. Noble thinks that it would
have been a good thing if the Russian
Emperor, with whom it is claimed the
disease originated, had died when he
had the whooping cough. as by doing
so he would have prevented untold
misery among God-fearing people.
1t is said that John ID. Grinnell
hadn't prayed before since he was a
little boy till he thought he felt the
grip of the influenza last week. John
is now firm believer in the faith cure,
and says a little prayer quite frequently.
Joe Allen, of M. =. Allen & Son, had
not been seen for few days. and in
quiry revealed the fact that he was
being entertained at home by a case OF
ia grippe" Every few moment moan
would be heard, followed by an almost
inaudible voice saying "Oh, let me die"
better imagined than described.
Jesse Rapley says the only redeeming
feature of ia grippe" is the remedy
generally prescribed, and the fact that
a person afflicted does not have to labor
for few days.
Austin LutZ states he did not have a
very severe attack, but says that as
light as it was it took a grip all over,
and he knows how to sympathiZe with
those who were less fortunate and had
a full grown case with all the extras
thrown in.
Geo. w. Allen was another one of
| the victims, but said he would rather
| have la grippe than the mumps, as the
! latter interferes with his powers of
mastication, George thinks he would
rather have anything that's going than
to be in such fix that he couldn't eat
La grippe" does not even hesitate al
numbering the fair sex amongst its
victims. and few them who were seer
had All OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
die expression on their faces that would
not fail to elicit sympathy from the
heart Of Nero.
When the dreadful La Grippe
Getteth you on the hippo
And you think you are going to die,
Keen a stiff upper lippe,
And don't lose your grippe.
| You'll get well in the sweet bye-and-bye.