Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1893 — PLEASURE AT THE CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

PLEASURE AT THE CAPITAL.

The terrific weather in Washington on inauguration day has resulted in an epidemic of coughs, colds, tonsiiitisand quinsy? Men and women scraped the icy sleet from the reviewing stands and occupied

them for hours in the atorra to gratify their Inordinate curiosity. The most robust flwit have been stricken down, and physician* have had no rent for days. Ono prominent physician said to a reporter, Wednesday: “I have not had my clothes off since Sunday night, and have had 400 patient* since the night of inauguration day. Uis astonishing to mo that people will run tho risk of death to sec a tot of soldiers pass by.”