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Show ICED TEA THE PERILS THAT LINGER IN THE DISTANCE DIS-TANCE AfiOUaSD THE COOLING BEVERAGE. BEVER-AGE. Singular enough, science has not yet assailed iced left. But it will not do to permit people to enjoy this cool, delightful beverage, simply because its taste iB gratelul to the wearie-nvatem wearie-nvatem during the scorching weather. We must do our duty, though science may shrink from it, and the people may cry out ftRainst tis. 7 here is danger in iced tta, and it yon would live long and well shun the cooling cup. We bave not tbe space to devote to an extended discussion of the i matter, and can only cite a few in stances from a long series of carefully made experiment?, which cauuot fail to carry conviction to the must incredulous in-credulous mind. On June 10, of this year, John C Hempstead, of WVet Hill, bfgan to drink iced tea at dinner and supper. He kept up his practice tor nearly tliree weeks, and then oueaay, goinii down the Division street steps, he slipped and fell, abraiding the skin on both legs, and ruuaing a sliver into the ball ol bis thumb so fur that il made bis teeth acne when he pulled , ; nut. His clolht-a were aieo consid i erably loro. When he went home that evening be learned tbut biseldts. noy bad been whipped at school ior sticking a pin as far through unother bov as the hed wonid kt it 0. Ht-waa Ht-waa warned to q nt driuking iced te;i, but he persisted in the practice, and is now si.'epink in Ihe valley Iibiwt: VVebt and NorUi Hill, where he liv.,. and fl;i) ? oq ne,"i.r felt so well ;:i 1m -ir. But may be he lies about i'. Henry Esterleldt, of Eighth street, drank iced tea regularly every euai ir. jr fur three years. Ho noticed tht ,iivr drinking it for about tso months, hia boola began to run over nt the heel. He ptrd sted, arid one dunday afternoon whilo he was oui driving, his horse ran av.;y and smashed $17 out of a borrowed buggy. He piid the money, but ncylecten the warning. He went on drinking iced tea, ar:d in less tjan tix ivct ke .-ome one poisoned his dog. Ti. '.statements '.st-atements can he verified by wrilii?;: to Mr. Esterfeliit, who is now iiv:;y in Kansas cily, the father of cl v; -n cliildren, all of whom inherit lb e I r father's vice. A young woman who did pUiu sewing in this city, while employed in tbe family of Ralph Henderson, of Mnple street, became addicted during tbe til turner to the use of iocd tr. She soon ran a sewing machine I needle through her thumb, nud, (or many days, whenever she picked up a cup ot iced tea, a sharp pain ran through her thumb. She refused to obey the warnirg, however, and io six weeks she was carried away. The man who carried hc-r away tunmcd her first, and they are now living in Sagetown. Last week, nt tho beginning of the healed term, ttvo eminent HCienuih' gentlemen of Burlington touk a iliong, healthy black and tan ilt'i:. and immerstd tihu iu a tub of purt cisterH water, into whicli a weak ; si'luliou of iced tea bud been pound iii ey held the dog s bead U'dertl:-, water Urteen minute?, allbf'tigh l.i rtriiggltd violently, thus bbuwuig tiie natural and iiislincli ve avert-mn to a fhictanco which inteilirut htnn.in beings blindly an.l taj;t-rly drink, and whin tbe gentleman took hini out of the tub be was quite dead. If u tea-cupful tea-cupful of iced tea in a tub full oi water will kill a doe, think for your selves what must he thcfhVct of strong, undiluted cup of this decoction itpi;n the system of a weal: woman. Builmgtou Jlauk' ie. |