| Show WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH MR blaine bla Bli AlNE aine 2 mr blaine elaine was very sick indeed during the days when the national republican convention was in session in cincinnati and it is the fault of his physicians sic sie si ians lans more than for any other reason that any question has ever been raised about the attack which prostrated him on the morning of sunday Su uday Vday the of june it will be remembered that he walked with his wife to the congregational church in this city on the morning of that day and while standing in the porch became suddenly faint sat down asked to be taken home became insensible and afterward lay jay for two whole days in a state ef of syncope at the end of this period of insensibility he recovered the I 1 ull lull control of f his faculties bacu facu I 1 and very soon afterward became fully restored enow there was nothing mysterious in this sudden prostration and equally sudden recovery abany as any competent physician would have been able to explain more mote than this it may basald be said that any good doctor knowing mr blaines BIa bla ines inos mental and physical condition during the early days of june and the extraordinary excitement cit ement and strain upon his nervous system for the month previous could have accurately foretold his prostration and could have added with equal accuracy that if there was not an immediate diate fatal result his recovery would be extremely rapid mr blaines attack was that affection well known to the medical profession as altemia and anc emla emia and if it had bad been properly named and described to the world at the time mr blaine would have been spared the many sharp things that have been said about it he suffered not from a congestion of the brain but from an absolute diminution of blood and weakening of its quality caused by the extreme physical and mental strain of the preceding weeks wash cor eos bos oston herald the gr grasshopper is a burden in the northwestern states A letter from st paul to the pioneer press says A short trip through nicollet sibley and a part of brown counides cou counties niles has convinced me we that the grasshopper question is one of much more serious import anc ethan our people suppose in a drive of thirty miles I 1 did not see a furrow turned vacant houses and deserted farms are not infrequent those who remain cannot possibly hold olit out much longer many of them are actually facing starvation star atar unless a change comes cornea soon our western counties in must A be de populated |
