Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — Bibliomaniac Gladstone. [ARTICLE]

Bibliomaniac Gladstone.

It seems that, like many other biblio" Hvar -4fjpht W»w~..r-Vfrtti I ni prGI ads tone has attacks of madness about l •on.-t? in so often. He had one oftthose .i .“spoils” on him the day before I left! I Hon dap. says Eugene Field in the.Chlca- ! ge .ifewn, and the wav he fampiged around the bookshops in Oxford street was simply delicious. rThe place he entered swift.- P happened tb be there, and* 1 1 watched him closely, for I to see whether, while under tbfi 1 evil influence, he was like other bihlio-j j maniacs I knew. He planted himself in ’ the middle of the shop, and cast his eyes ; sllwly around the shelves of books that .lund the walls. Of course sill oHiA hoy|sry paused wheirs that 'qMvering with excitement, rolling his j splendid eyes upon those musty treasures, j Suddenly he raised his majestic left arm i ani described, as it were, tp the left ofi | -hiritiaf ■parabola. "“SSnd" me those,” he said. Then he raised his equally majes“hurried out of Westall’s and plunged in-j to another bpokohop. hard Jby, -:The whole DusmV'B was done in three miqqtes. Westell knew what the old-maiidneant; . atflby jana -volijmep 'and'tomes' by the l Bcore, while a clerk tfent <Jut to'hire a dray. '‘■'‘STbat’sTbe 'way he always buys,” saidWest^k—“lUs afagoodf’as £SO every time he comeß.into a-.book shop,”' / i ~ '.r~7TT±— T-^-r 1 —r- ' The world' over there have been observed about 100 specify .ftfj&qpquitoes, there are fOt ftefl&ndgmdfrsifcali ten speJt- whether their existence is for the better or worse of mankind, but a gentleman has •placed; at'the . disposal. Of the American Museum o£. Natural History’ the suin of S2OO to be paid in three prizes for the best essays on the destruction of mosquitoes/ ifies, and other insects. We would rftlggbst universal compulsory vaccination with the expectation that in thd'Cofirse of time the mosquities would all die off of blood poisoning. —Dr. Foo f;’p| j Monthly, H(iw uono willu human body remain in the earth before it decays until it cannot be distinguished from the surrounding clays, is a question as yet undecided ■ by°fKe scientists. Much, depends upofi the character of the soil and the different elements of which it is composed. In countries abounding in limestone, ,ou again, in regions thoroughly saturated with alkaline waters, human flesh will retain a natural color and firmness for an WIWMIi-i their slimy depths for centuries. It iff said to be an historical the bodies ?L three Boman sOlaiere Avere fqnjpd In %peat bog on the Emerald Isle ip fhey j/iad