The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-06-13

There are II horses on this island,
cottage organ, two cases Of Milwaukee
beer and 18 Of common leprosy. took
a look at three Of the lepers. but did not
shake hands.
Nothing is more annoying to we'll
known man like myself than to find at
a reception in the leprosy hospital that
where you have been standing shaking
hands there is pile of fingers on the
floor which have been left by admiring
friends.
This kind Of leprosy is not contagious.
say this so that the reader need have
no fears about reading this article. It
will not be apt to convey the disease.
I was rendered a reception by the
Lepers' hospital at Nassau, but shrank
from it. Leprosy is inherited, but not
contagious. 1t passes from father to son
and takes the place of real estate. Those
who do not care to inherit the limestone
pavement here may inherit the leprosy
and the right of piscary in the Atlantic
keep family here over week.
The United States consulate here is
worth 5000, and you get the New
York holiday magazines on the Fourth
of July. The consul here is Mr.. Mclean.
a very pleasant official who has held his
place nine years. He must be very
competent officer, or else nobody in the
United States cares to come here for four
years. Mr.. Mclean was sent here for 10
years, but he gets nearly three years
good time for not having tried to escape.
I might like to spend honeymoon
here or recover from govt. but otherwise
I would not banker for this mad, mad
life, which consists mostly Of walking
from the hotel down to the dock, where
you spit thoughtfully into the beautiful
water and return to the hotel again.
This is restful, but It does not improve
one intellectually. If had brand new
bride and feared that some one more at
tractive than I've will just sup
pose this for the sake of argument
might win her from me, if I mingled
too much in Saratoga, would bring
her here, where I would have no rival.
I would keep the money and return
tickets in my own possession and threat
On to leave her here If she smiled on an.
other.
But, thanks to the fatal gift Of beauty,
I do not have to do thatl My chief Diff
fioulty now consists in keeping the
moths from searching their beautiful
wings in the bright glare Of my mass
i've smile. There are $50, 600 mother
less, houseless dogs here, and those who
have mothers refer to them with shamel
Oh, oh, obi The life of Nassau dog
is the bleakest thing on earth!
No homel No HART No parents love!
No teeth!
Nothing but hunger, hot weather and
q split stick on his tail.
never saw anything more unhappy
than the dogs here. In Constantinople
the dog has no future. He has not been
emancipated, but he is not molested.
Here the only exercise one has consists
in kicking a pathway through the dog
underground and worthless niger bum
population. There Is here dog in the
air most of the time. I've got quite q
football knee from overlooking myself.
Every one who comes here is apt to over
kick himself.
This is persif1age)
1met a literary youth the other day
who wanted to chat. Discussing people
OF note, of whom he seemed to be well
informed, he said casually, "By the
way, Julia Hawthorne has q plantation
somewhere here in these islands, I be.
ieve."
"Yes,' I said, "*I think she has. She
and Mary Ann Crawford own one to-
gether and grow sponge cake, rubbe,
erasers and tortoise shell souvenir spoons
for the New York market.
A new bride and groom, with new
trunks, new clothes, new gloves, new
valises, new umbrellas and new every.
thing in the travelling line, as brides and
grooms always have, are here with us.
He is fresh as dew laden daisy. How
he got SO far away from home without
any one to take care of him do NOT
know. Yesterday he got gay at dinnea
and thought he would order something
in the shape of beverage. He looked
over the list of wines and mineral wa
tiers for some time and then decided ia
take bottle of Bethesda water, but the
waiter said they were out of Bethesda
water. So the young man compromised
by ordering a bottle of Hunjadi water.
l asked him afterward how he liked it,
and he said he thought that a taste fo1
Hunjadi water must be acquired.
There has been some investigation and
official inquiry regarding the cause Of
our shipwreck and so far no good reason
given for the terrible loss and frightful
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