Year: 1877

The blue glass cure, since the people of
Chicago became familiar with it through
the columns of the Tribune, has excited
the deepest interest everywhere, and letters
are received almost daily at this office mar
rating the remarkable experiences of the
writer's. a saloon keeper on West Madison
street has employed blue G lass tumblers for
the past three weeks, and finds that the
taste of his whisky is so much improved
that whisky of his own manufacture by
chemical processes is preferred by his Gus
toners to the best Robertson county sour
mash costing him thrice as much.


The owner of cigar stand on Dearborn
street has a blue glass globe over the gas
light, at which customers light their cigars.
During the last week he has changed his
seat, so that the shadow fell on his face
He has been cured of stammering of twenty
seven years standing, and is prepared to
put head on any man of reasonable SIZE
who doubts his word.


Deacon Clapp. of - Church. on the
avenue, was bald as an OYSTER like an
oyster means that he had no hair. but
only a beard-and to get out of draft
changed his seat to the inner extremity of
the pew. The actinic rays. mellowed by
their passage through the stained windows
fell upon his bald head, and. after sleepinE
there night and morning through eight
sermons, his head was covered with a thick
and heavy growth of hair.


The Superintendeuts of the street car
lines say that they had long noticed that
the cars with blue lamps jumped the track
and got " sniped less often than others.
but, until the publication of Gen. Pleason-
toms book, they were unable to account for
this singular fact.


y still more remarkable occurrence is
noted. On one Of the South Side lines
there was mule of uncommon intractabil-
ity and vigor. He was subject at short and
irregular intervals to convulsive action in
the hinder quarters, and had the reputation
Of being able to kick a fly off of the roof
Of the car with more neatneSS and dispatch
than any other mule in the service of the
company 1t was, however. noted that
whenever the lamp on the front end Of Il G
car was in that the mule suddenly lapsed
into good behavior: in fact. his driver ob
served that if he had an alchanpel CT a
cherub III the traces he couidl't ask a
pieasanter critter to hold the lines over.
Investigation shows that the blue actinc
rays from the lamp fell Oh the mules lum-
bar region aud took All the kick out of him.


Finally. keutuckian gentleman called
at the Yr.JuHe office Saturday. and with
many strange oathS stated that there was
nothing surprising in these cures to any
person who really understood the subject,
- for said he, ''where do you find such
whisky, thoroughbred horses, short horn
heifers, men, women and peach brandy as
in Kentucky, and what are they all attIib-
utable to but ITS blue grass p; The editor
explained To him that it was not blue grass
but blue glass which was the subject under
discussion, and the Kentucky gentleman
departed highly dissatisfied, declaring that
it was another Republican swindle like the
Electoral Commission.-C Chicago Tribune.


The blue glass mania is contagious. Ii
has spread from the avenues even to the
small cross streets i'll New York. Endless
are the vagaries that result from it and
sore the trials which follow in its train.
What torture more naddening to weak
eyed divinity student, who wears blue Cog
giles that he may burn the midnight oil over
his Patristic reading, than to hear the boot
blacks cry, How are you, old blue glass -