Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Opium-Eating. [ARTICLE]

Opium-Eating.

A New York correspondent of the Troy Times says: A veiy remarkable scene occurred at the door of a leading drug establishment, the principal feature iu which was a woman shrieking at the top of her voice, and apparently going into hysterics. The crowd might "have supposed her to have been grossly wronged," bitt tlie proprietor explained the matter by the statement that all proceeded from his refusal to give her a dose of morphine. The woman was a confirmed opium-eater, and spent in this way all her money. : She had come to beg the article when she could no longer purchase, and on being refused gave way to her feelings in the manner above described. She punished the dealer bv getting up a " scene;" targe numbers" of nervous ladies in high station use opium to give new life to their effete and exhausted frames; perhaps the largest proportionate consumption is among this class. They prepare for the enjoyments of a party or a ball by the use of this stimulus, and when it has brought the system to the acme they shine with unusual brilliancy. The use of stimulants as a preparation for social enjoyments is prodigious, and in a large party perhaps one-half of the guests are keyed up by opium or bourbon to a proper state of felicity. The reason why opium is becoming more popular is because its devotee need not incur the opprobrium inseparable from the drunkard. He need carry no bottle with him, and his breath will not smell ot liquor. His stock can be put in his vest pocket, and can be used imperceptibly to tbe world. Having these advantages over fire-water we do not wonder at the increase of the former, and tbs only reason why it does not become universal as a substitute for alcoholic drinks is simply because, they are social while opium is not. A group of" young men would not feel so- much inclined to eat opium together as they would to enjoy a social glass. —Some soils will require and bear to .be tamed over to almost any practicable -depth; others will not allow'of this without injury to the ground and succeeding crops; some lands require only a comparatively shallow furrow, while therratum below requires breaking and loosening; that water may settle away, to the less injury of growing plants, and to furnish more and better space for their roots. Consequently only good judgment and experience with the soil to be worked can determine just the treatment adapted thereto. No arbitrary rule can be made applicable in all cases and conditions. Only one rule should prevail in all cases, and that should be to prepare the best possible seed bed wherein to deposit the seed. —N. T. Herald. —New York barbers are coming down fire cents on a shave.