Show I 1 W ir i r 0 1 OLD IVOR WORLD t LD IN SEWS 1 1 IV S jan 11 1890 the tile epidemic ridiculously misnamed mined ll tie llis is influenza and more I 1 rpcky rp cry called the grip which for aeve several rat w eks has been ravo ravaging ging the continent has bas at length a definite hold upon england li gland and nil all london is 19 given up to speculation anil suit con regarding it what are its symptoms how they shoud bd ba warded oil off and how they should be cure 1 theae form the maple of talk just v aril aul culvera were vera tle the di forder not an exceedingly unpleasant one there i would be a distinctly humorous s de deto to the tile wh whole le affair person declares that nothing like frequent dobes of ta port and quinine can be found for or p preventing presenting renil the ma mala dalaly laly ly another remarks III hut att once seized with ith the tile complaint c champayne champa bam Kne and oysters form the best cure cu re while a third ec declares clares that all that can ie I 1 e needed is to go to bd im med abely the symptoms become cor cleir and to stay there in a cheerful tate 1 I mind until they are disposed of all this tills advice ia c excellent z c e 1 ie n t e no n g li in its way but one e cannot a n n 0 t help li e 1 0 won w 0 n deling how ow the humbler victim n of the malady are ste to adopt it the fact is that at agthe the outset though certainly not for long the grip waa was regard el 61 as peculiarly an tipper opper claps class liea e cabinet ministers ex cabinet ministers aud and loading leada g ambassadors were the earliest to be seized but not many days lad bad elapsed more before it began to Dene penetrate to laps distinguished ranis ranks and tile hospitals became in many cases casesi overcrowded for the bika sake of the community generally it may be hoped eliop d that the who lhome tome skepticism which prevailed before it was absolutely I 1 certain carta i a iott ile grip had bad taken up a lodgment among os us I 1 as to whether hether it was really the russian form that had invaded the land will continue BO so far ai a to prevent people alarming themselves i by imagining that every cold in the head springs from the genuine disorder di an n oid old arab story nair vai rates aei how a holy dervish wandering in in the desert mst mit the genie of cholera advancing towards a city how many asked the ilia dervish der do you burp ace to slay 11 and cholera answered three thousand ry later dervish and benle I 1 met again and the former up braided the litter with treachery f airty thousand having died in jn A the ill fated city 1 I blew slew only three re totted the genie it was fear that gilel kil el ilia rest no more excellent in moral iral tajai than sa to here embodied could be preached at the present moment though there is 13 every necessity for ca caution a tion there is nore for pinic and in london at least the people trust to the excellent sanitary arrangements chic which are far in advance of cf those of continent il ct c t ea e to pave rave them from the more dire aspects of the disorder winch which have been so plenteously show n in sr st Pete petersburg all and particularly in P paria aiels good sanitation personal and suit ordinary care will do very lucli to break the tone force of the present visitation the terr terrible ihle calamity which occurred athe very incoming of the new tear at the For estgate Indu industrial at C clisol when twenty six six little laia etro suffocated ai as they slept has wera c caused u d hose those repin for the management ment of similar institutions elsewhere A to carefully t examine their own premises in order der to inake sure that efficient edi tient ways lof of escape exist in i case a si I 1 iii A r ic a ta strophe is th threatened reat ened it is in not only in fact in m the case of the let atres and other places of amusement that sufficient indans of exit ought to bo be insisted upon workhouses prisons schools large hotels all buildings inga in fact in in which a groat great number of persons arc are at the rame name time congregated gre gated ought to be BO so provided in london the tile effect of the fo For estgate disaster was very great because in these days of iha the r pid grouth growth of tha tile metr metropolis apolis opolis that district lias has become almost a much a suburb ai as nays bays water or brixton hm ton and the horror it inspired ad was all the more marked because t ilia lie catar catastrophe had conie at a moment v when lien every one oneada was wishing relative or frind fri nd a happy new now year it ia Is extremely fortunate for the working elates clas Fes and esp bially for the very poor that eo so far the present winter has not been a hard bar one for coals have been steadily etea dlly go na up tip ever since the autum nto to what inay may a almost now ba be called famine prices the disappointment at this tills in the metropolis is is all the mra ui m ra jre keen beca because uee when the tile london council pendeli den deli a ono one of f its first acts to r refrain from appealing to ment to lerew the duty of a per ton long levied apoi l coil coming within ahe area there seemed lemon to hope that this commodity una this winter w anter wo id ie I 1 0 m re thin than usually cheap of 01 course a variety ot causel cau ei have d to rend send up the price but these are only imperfectly appreciated by 1 the tile in metropolitan tro ratepayer rate who when he be finda hia his rates higher haht r because of the bosa of income caused by the tile removal of tile cial cl dues and yet remember a from sad experience that he hai has had bad to pay more for his coal this win iner er than lio he lias had to do for ye rs ret in Is likely to utter some bitter word it may of course be said that had ad lie been a prudent ilent person he lie aou would I 1 d have laid in last autumn at the lite low prices then prevailing a sufficient a stock t ock to last tho the winter inter bat apart from the fact that a large yr r portion of ordinary folk cannot afford to lay out so much money months in advance there is ia the circumstance circum sance that in moat most middle class suburban li louses lv wes uses the tile cellar collar accommodation ia is sterly ly inadequate for tho ilia holding of a IL six months stock of coal when a largo large fa family m 11 y and th therefore c ref 9 re beveral several roomi rooms have to be provided tor for the very poli positive tive statements which hao have been mado made as to the intentions of mr bunth with witti leird to tha the isider ship of the tile llwis aro are to ha be taken with a certain amount of qualification there is no doubt that mr ir smith lia lias consented to lie 19 duties of 4 ins his arduous post next session but this ig ili upon hta returning troia iila hie yachting cruise feeling bet bat up in I 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 2 S d ia R 0 V 11 health although much better than he ie was a year ago the first lord of 0 be the Tria treasury sury still feels unequal to a heavy parliamentary str atri and anti w would it 1 d g gladly la d 1 y b be e re 1 e a ee 1 l fr trona 0 m his his bisbo abara r s i if f li his i 0 co colleagues 1 lea g u e s f lit alt i tint li at he could bo be spared Asit As it ioan is an understanding it hao has been arrive I 1 at that if the strain next sess Sf aion lort proves severe mr who la Is thirsting for more work will from time to time relieve the tile first lord of the treasury especially when anen tile house I 1 ia 19 in committee cittee A change in the leadership of the I 1 lone lon e before the opening of the sea res ion must hoA however ever still be regarded aa as possible although riot probable the Y iri ancial in the course of I 1 an article analyzing the r re turna baya says on the ilia basis of present taxation tai cation and expenditure ars oming that conditions wre w re 11 n a ite ed mr goschen conail to a surplus of three millions in I 1 1 but as a matter of tact fact thia this expansion in trade which even sa cau toua a man as mr goach en can well count upon will enable him to reckon apon a considerable increase in the r revenue e v e fr from the s cheri iram the existing taxes and d t lit 1 i a beina c the cate care hie the large largo surplus of from four to I 1 five millions will no doubt ba be fore ahado shadowed eha dowed ed in the tile estimates tor for 1890 10 1 presen presenter reI in april next and this will form the babis for a re ducton in the existing taxation last year mr goschen wag was not so for lie had jail to augment the taxes in order to cover a large amount of revenue allocated bated to the local authorities but the pos position tion ia is now fortunately very different lerent dif will he lie do with it that is the question which all people aill eon ask abut the sui plas at present no one can pretend to answer T but it ix Is certain that lie lite restoration aaion of our gold coi biago will absorb a p part art of the surp surplus luo and mr Go goschen may also decide to at clith the silver plate antles Int les which lie expressed his life desire to do it in last aprils budget bridget statement but bit t whatever may ba be proposed one thing the list chancellor hould should certainly do d 0 viz reduce the tile income tax although somewhat les lem oner onerous 0 u 5 than it was the income tax I 1 li dill still too high a figure tor for auch such piping times of peace as the country ia now dow enjoying for to too long the tile income tax payers have born the burden alid heat beat of the day sim simply ply lecause Jie Je cauce cause they and agitate in the areeta w bhea bea their burdens are ed the if january jannary fity years backow back i aw the beginning of the penny poet ani the fifteenth of this month w witness itne sei ea ita janalea celebration in london at a vom c TO am sm orating ban oell board the tile besent ter general appropriately breide pre pr eide idea and a brilliant group of his predence bors sors in chief bharga at st 81 martana legrand le grand have been hidden to sit beside mr gaikes at the eist leist e idels are the names of livingstan living stat amen valio ho h have a ve held the llie ilia duke of argyll ird lord hari agton lord enily emly fir fr lyon Pia Pis yair mr shaw and the tile duke of rutland how could litile little rowland Ito wiand ifill have it dreamt in his moments of most sanguine carign ina hopa ulness that the penny post experiment would have lave in one short half century achieved BO so brilliant a success in griat great gr britain as it has as ij ia the last official year as its many as separate packages were delivered within thee isles ly by the postmen pst men and anti there are now dow over laih and low on the post fice pertinent permin ent stiff lot tot to rec reckon nearly as baay more in the is employ ploy of local postmasters i twenty thousand in all cf these public a workers ara are cf tha the soter sex Elc eloquent quent figures these aid a splendid inspire tion tor for after dinner at the jubilee gathering whatever of glory mr air I 1 labouchere a bou chere aca acq acquires aires d iring lying life it ap appears peara be is n not 0 t much for at least among mankind after death the follow following ing from hid bid pen which recently appeared peel in shows that ho lie doea not deairas niche in the olifice which 1 is a the tile of repose of st so many great graat britons so much aa as he doe does the tile advancement van cement of science so far as he can promote it I 1 can a statute or a mural tablet to an illustrious person in a walhalla but what bence there is in supposing that we wo doia dolla person reon honor by his lit morl moral remains in a particular spot walhalla neath a fla abbey it would assuredly be difficult to explain the egyptians gave themselves a great d deal eal of trouble to preserve their corpses from corruption and they wasted much money in heaping hea pinga stone tone upon stone over them and what is the tile result egyptian mummies are aa an article of commerce fur for my part ag a a holy is worth something eo to a medical scho I 1 sincerely trust that my Y heirs and assigns will have tho the sense to gain an honest penny by selling mine when I 1 have permanently retired from front it WARWICK ON OX TUB hotel regi resistors regist cra 0 of E eastern a at e r n anes and we wegern e era cities the ilia na names 0 of f S salt A I 1 t luke lake mea me a are as scarce as hena hens teeth tha tile dear rotors voters have come coins home |