Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-18
GOT THE GRIPPE !?

Grippe Microbe, After Several Years
Absence, Is on the Go Again in
the West.
Bismarck Tribune.
Mr.. A. Grippe Microbe is with
us again. After an absence of
several years he dropped in the
other day with pink shirt and a
leather grip, and is stopping tenn
porarily in a number of the hest
families. Probably no member of
the Microbe family now living has
a wider acquaintanceship or
greater tendency to enter into the
physical being Of mankind and
kick up row like Monday morn
ing, when the kitchen is full Of
soapsuds and steam from the
family wash. The grippe is no
respecter of personsor Of anything
else. He comes like a thief in the
night, and sticks to his business
tighter than an applicant for a
legislative clerkship to the mem
Der from his home district.
The grippe has more symptoms
than a patent medicine advertise
ment, and more ways of making
itself disagreeable than book
agent. The general effect of an at
tack is cross between telling off
railroad train and running
through a feed chopper. Unsoli-
cited testimonials from men who
have made business of falling off
trains and getting themselves
mangled in all manner of machin-
cry convince us that there is SEN
sation Of genuine pleasure in these
little pleasantries. as compared
with healthy dose Of grippe with
the bark on. A gentleman who
had been through an adult stage of
grippe, afterward was severely sea-
sick, and said he had never had SO
much fun in his life. Ordinarily
it is no fun to be seasick.
After man has thrown up his
hands in despair and followed
them with his feet, and these car
rying signals for a second section,
he is inclined to look on seasick-
ness with serious doubt, as source
of amusement. But to the man
who has had grippe, seasickness is
merely pastime.
The first symptom of grippe is
that of being fallen upon by full
grown pile driver, dropped from a
considerable elevation. There is a
soreness over the entire system ap-
proximating that of the man who
didn't get a job and went home on
the swearing train. The legs feel
pulled to an unusual length, and
the spinal column is veered around
and tied in flowing bow knct
under the shoulder blade. Intense
thirst is characteristic of the
disease, and it is neglect of this
that is fatal in so many, many
cases.
Following the first symptoms
there come dizziness, wind collie
heaves, cribbing tendencies, falling
of the hair, spasms, rheumatic
phantasies creeping up and down
the back bone, headache, earache.
toothache, indigestion, wens, corns,
bunions, warts, carbuncles, acute
meningitis, sleeplessness, lack OF
appetite, dry, parched lips, flowing
eyes and nose, slight profanity, in
creasing to moderate and violent
delirium, cold chills, cold feet, and
a sequence Of other symptoms that
we do not recall now, but that may
be found in Lydia Pinkham'e
complete guide to health and hap.
piness, or any other reliable re.
ligious work. We do not claim tc
enumerate the symptoms in their
exact order. Sometimes the rules
are suspended, and it is several
days before the victim gets back tc
the general and regular order o1
business.
After these symptoms have come
and left cards, the victim is the