...of the new dances which, like a tarantula-bite, set every one a twirling, nor stage madness, nor yet that American lecturing influenza which yearly sweeps...things in their delirium. They besieged potteries for chiy, drove Italian plaster-workers out of their wits with unexecutable orders, got neuralgia and rheumatism...

...of the new dances which, like a tarantula-bite, set every one a twirling, nor stage madness, nor yet that American lecturing influenza which yearly sweeps...but time could cure it, and it ran its course to the disma}', amusement, or edification of the beholders, for its victims did all manner of queer things...