Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-28
THE EASTER STORM
Responsible for a Continuance of the
Long Siege of the Grip.
no DISEASE is BETTER NAMED.
A Number Of the Worst Cases That Were
Reported Yesterday.
no DISEASE is BETTER NAMED.
MANY SUFFERERS OUT IN THE COUNTRY

Ii almost any man or woman of ordinary
requirements and common sense who has
lived long enough to know that when it
really rains it pours, has had the grip, he or
she knows that it is appropriately named.
1t could not be more appropriately desig-
mated by the most accomplished philologist
in the world. 1t grips you as efectually as
did St. Ernulphus' curse, vide Tristram
Shandy. If your weak point is a corn, that
excrescence will burn during King Infu-
enza's reign with an intensity that only a
cloistered monk, or Dante, could describe.
A weak tooth will assume dimensions only
circumscribed by the dimensions of your
mouth, and rheumatism takes absolute
possession of all departments mental and
physical
The suns rays on Wednesday and Thurs
day were delCsive, though they were miti-
cation. When Mr. Moran, the contractor,
was told that the bright weather would
abate the disease, he replied: Mitigate
nothing! Do you suppose that full moon,
Good Friday and Easter all falling within
a week will not bring a storm that will set
all calculations on their beam ends?" Mr..
on time
No Diminution of the Disease.
Its effect was felt yesterday; not in an in
crease in cases, but in the fact that the ex-
pected diminution was not felt 1t is
thought the weather will improve to-day
aud the disease with it. so far as those are
concerned who take good care of themselves.
Doctors all tell the same story, and some
people say too much prominence is given
the matter and attribute some deaths to
blueness occasioned by the public dwelling
on the matter. The remedies used are the
same as from the first, except among those
non-professional patients who treat them
selves and diet on everything from thin
Cruel to whisky punch.
Victims of the malady in all stages re-
ported by name yesterday were: Mrs. DR..
Ramsey, of Sixth avenue, who had Just
gotten over severe attack of pleurisy. Mrs.
Ramsey, however, was not regarded as 6an-
gerously i'll; j. D. Watson, attorney, corner
OF Ninth street and Penn avenue, is conva-
leScng slowly; C. Z. Miller, late of the
,Duquesne Hotel; Alderman S. f. Kerr, of
Lawrenceville; Miss Lizzie Conway, of the
McCarthy's Mishaps Company; all the
doctors In Sharpsburg, anG Drs. Nc
Intosh and Robinson are in bed;
some Others on the List.
Councilman w. W. Nesbitt, Tenth ward,
Allegheny, is recovering; F. c. Goodwin,
of the Natatorium, has il; also Mr.. Lip
man, of the Household Credit Company;
Mr.. Solomon, of Gusky's store; H. Giles
pie, of II. c. Frick & Co.; John b. Lutz, of
Carson street, dangerously so; John C. Har-
mon, Southside; William McAlister,
South Eighth street; Second Vice PresidenI
of the Pennsylvania Company; William p.
hirker, of the Prothonotary's office, Belle
Vue; DR.. Cathcart, East End; DR.. Chess
rown, of Fifth avenue; J. A. Miller, Col
lins avenue; E. J. Edwards, Try street; Mr..
Duff East End Postmaster; Mrs. Blanck,
of Sylvan avenue, Thirty-frst ward. Un-
dertaker Devore was forced to take a rest.
The machine shops of Jones & Laughliu
are short 35 nachinists and some pud-
dlers and rollers. The Republican Iron
works pudding force is 25 short The
Southside Laundry Company missed 25 of
its girls yesterday. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railway Company was running with
very small clerical force. The Continental
Tube Works Company could not man all its
furnaces. At the Monongahela House 25
guests had sent for doctors.
There is considerable of the disease in the
country, but ther: the victims are lying in
bed and drinking hot teas, as a rule. and
seem to be getting along quite well, though
some send for doctors.