Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — SINGULAR EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL [ARTICLE]

SINGULAR EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL

A farmer, 4.8 years of age, whose parents were eccentric and wfeak-minded, and who had been long noted for his retiring disposition, spent his leisure hours in reading and was very secluded in his habits, began to drink whisky at the age of 39, but so sparingly that its effects were never noticed by persons associated with him, saving that he was perhaps a shade more solitary and reserved than ever as the years passed by. One day in the hurry of harvest time he broke off work abruptly, dressed himself in his Sunday best, and drove off to make a call on an unmarried lady, • the daughter of a neighbor, explaining the unwonted event to the young woman by saying that he was going to be more social in future. He was reserved but courteous in his manner, and lucid and sensible in his conversation. During the next week he called in similar fashion upon several young ladies in the neighborhood, talking pleasantly and promising to repeat the visits. These experiences were perfect blanks of consciousness to him, and, on awakening from sleep the next morning, while he could recall what took place in the field up to the moment when he started for the housed he had no memory whatever of having gone thither, dressed or made the calls, though he appeared perfectly conscious and rational to those upon whom the calls were made. Nor had he the least recollection of returning home, unharnessing the horse and going to bed. This state of affairs continued for several ySars, until while in one of his trances he broke his leg and died of the gangrene consequent upon unskillful surgery.—New York Times. *» A boy with a top tried to spin it, But his hand got a thorn right in it, The sport didn’t spoil For St. Jacobs Oil, Cured his hurt in less than a minit. A red-haired clerk in Savannah, Slipped on a piece of banana, Great pain he endured, But St’Jacobs Oil cured, He now goes dancing with Hannah. .