Miscellany.
Drinking is a main cause of insanity. Alcohol Hies to the brain, and not unfrequi'iifly dethrones reason, and leaves its victim a helpless idiot, or a raving maniac. Drinking parents beget imbecile or insane children. Dr. Howe, of Boston, tells us thai out of iSOU inmates of an asylum there, he knew that 147 had drunken parents. In addition to deranging the mental power of otherwise- perfectly sane persons, drinking develops tendencies to insanity that already exist. As there are grades in insanity, so there are grades between perfect mental soundness and insanity. Every one knows people who are " eccentric," " flighty,'' or " weak-minded." Alcoholic liquors readily allied such, and numbers of the inmates of our asylums are people of this class who have the tottering balance of their reason completely upset by drinking. Many are driven mad by anxiety on account of losses and deaths caused by intemperance. — "The Drinking System," from Macuiillan's Magazine. [And yet our juries eonvici such maniacs of murder, and our judges put on black caps and sentence them to death !]
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 238, 4 November 1876, Page 2
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176Miscellany. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 238, 4 November 1876, Page 2
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