Year: 1877

Correspondence of the NoKTHERN Tribune
CHICAGO. Jan. II. 1877.
This is said to be a remarkable winter
for this city TO experiences. During tn,
whole OF the month of December and al
OF january up to date, the sleighing ha,
been splendid. 1t has showed almost
daily. For me this is allnatural enough
but | have hear:lsy deal of grumblng be
cause it is so>co4i and we have so muct
snow. One of the daily papers the other
afternoon had 4 short article in its loca
columns Offering reward for the name
OF the person who sent them a poem Oh
The Beautiful Snow" saying they had
got enough of that kind of poetry, and
OF the snow, too, for that matter.


Did you ever hear of a professional
juryman? No? Well. there are just
such things as that in this metropolis OF
the west. Tt requires six thousand jury
men to serve at the different courts OF
trial i'll this county during year. The
law requires that there shall be 4 selrc.
ton OF names made from he different
wards. and placed with proper officer
by whom they are to be written upon
slips of paper and placed in Il box, and
the different juries are To be drawn us
they are wanted for the different courts.
Instead of doing this it is said that the
poll lists are taken and cut up. and the
names dumped in a box for the purpose
This is done to save trouble. Now. if
names are drawn from this box properly,
aud Uepires handed TO the bailiffs TO
summon the jury, he finds great trouble
in looking up the right men, or those
whose names he has upon the list. OF
course. to avoid this, and to make things
as easy as possible, instead of the name
being placeii upon the Uenire, he receives
it in blank. Here is where the profession
al jurvmen comes in. He knows at what
time the baliff is to receive his papers.
and he Immediately be>ieges that officer
TO be placed upon the list. and returned
as juryman. 1t is said, though hard
ly credit it. that in order to go upon the
list, he is often obliged to ''see" the bailiff
TO the tune OF share il. his fees as such
jury man. am told that this manner of
making up jury is the one that prevails,
and that .juries are made up of men more
or less that Go nothing else the year
around except to act as iurymen. III
deed this has become so prevalent that
the lawyers of fehis cay held Il meeting
the other day to devise some plan for
breaking up this practice.


Is your health bad? Have you the
rheumatism ?-neuralgia ?-sick i'm any
way? Ii you are, then [ will tell You
the new cure-blue glass. Every other
pane OF glass in your window must be
blue Of il particular shade-and believe
that is dark bluc-and every other pane
must be white. The more panes of glass
in your window the better, as thei you
have a better chance to tone down the
rays of light as they pass into the room
and shine upon your poor, emaciated
frame. for be 1t known that rays of light
have "a remarkable tendency to cause i'll
health If too brilliant, and to cure or
prevent it if toned down in proper
manner.


Ii the panes of glass in your window
are large and only Il few of them. then
You must divide them in some way by
fastening in strips or squares of blue
over portions of the white. This subject
seems to be the all absorbing one here
now, and the papers of the city are
teeming with advertisements telling
where to get the glass and who can put
it in.


| believe the idea originated with Gen.
PieasantOn, that it is conducive to health
to soften the white rays of the sun by
intermingling the CIarker rags of blue.
AND the theory is being urged by many
prominent physicians to such an extent
that there is quite an excitement here
upon the subject. II. ID.