Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-03-06

and refurnished throughout and ashes
placed on the sidewalk In front OF each
entrance. Refinement is noticeable
everywhere. The arm is not inserted
in the finger bowl so far now, even on
the West Side, as it was five years ago,
and IL Is no uncommon thing TO see q
guest, while removing foreign sub
stances from the teeth, conceal himself
behind his napkin, as they do in Eu-
rope. l would no more think now OF
throwing a mutton bone under the ia
BILE, even on the West side, than would
at Mrs. De Feyster Todd-Merkins', on
West Fifty-seventh street, where | am
very often a guest, writing up the din
ner in a frothy and debonair manner
and having the privilege of eating what
is left over at that hour.
Chicago is no longer making any apol-
ogles, however. She doesn't seem to
have to. II she can get rid OF her smoke
she need not worry about the future
much. Within ten years expect to see
some millionaires In this lake village
who will make the millionaires OF the
present look slim and pale. The volume
of business done here is not fully appre-
ciated, l am sure, by those who have
never crossed the Alleghanies. With
the business ability of New York, the
enterprise aud local pride OF San Fran
cisco and the hearty and hospitable well
come peculiar to the south, Chicago has
more elements of success than any other
city which l know OF, aside from the
matter of location and surroundings.
notice with much pleasure that some
scientist has again been successful in
overtaking and roping in grip microbe
by getting up early in the morning to
surprise the microbe while it was out
gazing or something. Oh, how COM
forting il is to know that a great man,
with butterfly net with handle TO It,,
has deftly gathered in the little Mike as
1t fitted from lung 10 lung!
Now il he could kerosene II and let IL
go among the other microbes his idea is
that most of them would go away al
most at once. The microbe, especially
the grip microbe, is exceedingly averse
to the odor OF kerosene, and l believe
the day is not far distant when this plan
will have driven away the parent mi
crobes, leaving the young TO die OF hun
ger.
DR.. Ames, a young unmarried physl-
clan, went out microbing month ago
and got enough for mess. He kept
them, however, for a week or so, giving
them a fresh lung every little while TO
nibbie on. He says that the microbe
does not show a high order OF intelli-
gence, but may be taught TO sit up on
its hind legs and ask for new lung
when hungry. He says that this bacil-
lus is smaller than the Mouse septic
amia, which has been heretofore re-
garded as the smallest bacillus known
to the sportsman.
Professor Pfeiffer has made some very
careful studies of this little microbe in
Europe He got the seeds, he says,
from the expectorators OF a crowned
head and sowed them in glycerin. He
was successful in getting from these a
brood of bacillus, or bacilli, rather,
which convinced him at once that he
could furnish an epidemic to any town
on short notice at small cost. He be-
gan to supply European physicians with
epidemics on a commission for fees paid
both to physicians and undertakers, and
now hardly has to do days work once
a month. He just strolls through his
microbe conservatory, looking over the
display, and every little while putting a
feeble one on its feet again or patting
the mother tenderly on the back. ALI
Of them know him now, and when they
hear his footstep hundreds OF them will
scampcr out from behind their bronchia
retreat with q glad cry of welcome.
DR.. Pfeiffer has not yet succeeded in
finding out how to kill this microbe,
but says that the close, confined air and
dampness of the grave are very injuri-
Gus to the health OF the grip microbe.
Now, II he can arrange it so that the
patient and the microbe may occupy
separate graves, so that one will not
have TO walt on the other, DIR. Pfeiffer
will have strobe great big scientific
stride.
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