HOW IT'S DONE.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 158, 22 September 1883, Page 14

HOW IT'S DONE.

; „ , Taking th« air, Carriage and pair, Horses so sleek, Carriage unique. ©, how in founder: do they do it— now then, tell us, come? - - ; Born rich and bred ? ■ .• ' ' Rich vmcle dead ? . Secret there's none, Here's how it'B done ; jß\j fusil-oiling whisky and adulterating, ruin! We saw a melancholy spectacle in Chancery jLane the other day which would have afforded material for the pen of a Dickens or the pencil of a Hogarth or Gustave Dore. Some of the City Council employes ■were engaged in clearing the drains^ and picking up the roadway opposite the old Mechanics' House of Call, which of late years has been mostly patronised by mechanics of a. peculiar class. Sittingon the kerbstone outside were four or five deplorable looking- old cronies, gadly'cbnt'jr . |>l-.iting the havoc that was going on, and doubtless filled with serious misgivings as to the inroadg ©f munvipal reform. According to the "Dublin Express of May 14, a " man lujuied Howtss has died from " teetotalisrn." Ib ■wus at iirssfc supposed thai he had died suddenly while tinder the influence of intoxicating liquor, but 'the post •mortem, showed that !■<? had vi 3d from '• teetotal beverages."- All tho organs, supposed to be n iTected by alcohol were, to use Dr Phillips's evidence, " very healthy," but chronic dysvepsia had been set ui\, and tlie man had ' died from a peculiarly painful disease, to which it, was - proved that " abstainers " are very liable. The doctor and coroner agreed thai; since teetotolism b#d spread extensively, deaths from tbe disea&t: are frequent, and, strange to say, the outward symptojis, when the case •■'(• Tjecomef sorious, ar.e, somewhat similar to those sho'.v-u \">oy alceholic drunkards. Exaxnination of tbe intern:!! >''. however, s^hows whether the sufferer is a " tee- ' J- : total drunkard," or one of the,^)ld-fashionod type. This man was found lying dead on the floor of his bed-voom after a teetotal carouse, Thajfc ,is .to say, he had eaten an enormous quaiitity of fresh meat, and swallowed nlso a corresponding proportion of efterveaciug fluid and he died just like an old toper.

'* S ' ? \ X.V ;: "■■ '- - ~ k ~ ? • . -.' . ;: Hardly a day. passes by but what memorials are presented to the Government; praying' them to bring 1 the C. D. Acts into operation again (says London Society). A gross blunder wag made when these Acts were repealed, and unless measures are immediately taken by the Government, the benefit derived from them will be nullified. The C. D. Acts have been a great boon to our naval ports, especially Portsmouth, I but now they have been repealed the health of the men i, is rapidly degenerating, and before many weeks have gone by the statistics showing the increase aiid the natural consequences of repealing suck health-preserv-ing Acts will be something appalling. " Spectator " writes the following : — " In your j last week's issue appears an account of the football | match, Blue Boys v. Onehunga Grammar School. Inm in a position to state that that aocount is not strictly correct. The ground was in splendid order for football, the Onehunga team were far heavier than the Blue Boys and the few Victorias, and in 40 minutes tho Blue Boys j had scored 3 tries to their opponents' nil. As for the ! maul, some old North Shore players, who were on the ground, pronounced it as Leing quite fair. The Onehunga team, finding themselves being licked, then off the ground." Mr Mtmdy, whose first wife ran away with Lord Shrewsbury, set. 22, the Premier Earl of England, to whom- she is now married (menu, the happy pair are now once more in the "very best "society), has married again. When the bridegroom at the tenants' dinner returned thanks for the bride, he said, in one part of his speech : " Oh, happy task to devolve on me to thank you on behalf of one peerless as she . is beautiful, lovely as she is chaste — one whose heart is too full to respond. I hare " — Thnn said a loud voice in enthusiastic tones: ''Long inaij she stay amongst 'tis.'" And there was a dead silence.