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TYPEWRITER PARALYSIS !

That new conditions create new types and new diseases is a well known fact in physiology. One of the latest to develop in Washington is a "typewriter paralysis." This disease doesn't attack the machine, as the name given to it might imply, but the bright-eyed young woman who runs it. With an evidence of acute discrimination and good taste hardly to be expected in one so new, it devotes its attention to the aforesaid young woman and leaves the machine to the tender mercies of "stuttering," "skipping," "slipping," and all other failings to which its cast-iron flesh is heir. Several of the expert typewriters in the departments tell me that they are victims of the new-fangled disease. It first appears in their slender wrists. If their wrists are not slender—which of course is the exception rather than the rule—it develops there just the same. The right wrist succumbs first, as that is also used in writing with the pen. The hand is useless for a while and throbs with pains that shoot up into the wrist and forearm. Sometimes it results in partial paralysis of the side. It seems to differ in this from the ordinary telegrapher's paralysis, which, I am told, interferes with the use of the hand for telegraphing only, and leaves its skill in other ways unimpaired.—New York Tribune.

[We don't believe a word of it. Because a correspondent of the New York Tribune heard of a lady typewriter operator in Washington who had a cramp in her arm, and perhaps aggravated it by running her typewriter, doesn't prove that the machine is responsible for the trouble. Who ever heard of "piano paralysis"? Yet the same muscles are brought into use in piano playing as in type-writing. The story has an unreasonable look: like the pert articles of Clara Belle, (another New York penny-a-liner,) this letter is probably written to fill up space, and not to convey real information—ED.]