A KEROSENE DRUNKARD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 5 March 1887, Page 3

A KEROSENE DRUNKARD.

Atlanta, Galveaton, has a kerosene oil drunkard (says the Detroit Advertiser) Henry J. Burrows drinks a gallon of kerosene oil, taking half a pint atone swallow. He says that be has bought the oil for drinking purposes, and consumes about half-a-gallon a week in this way. When about 15 years of age, he and two other boys went on a camp hunt, and they were loßt in the woods for three weeks. Burrows became separated from his friends, and had nothing: to eat, and could find no water. He bad a small bottle of kerpsene o}l which bad been brought along to kindle fires, and from time to time would take a small mouthful to alleviate his thirst. Before rescued, he bad swallowed the entire contents of the bottle. It had an exhilarating effect upon him, and the taste was pleasant. When he returned home he sampled the kerosene oil every day or two, and in a few months was drinking it regularly in small doses, It seemed to' have no injurious effect, and his parents did nothing to atop the habit. While in the army he would make regular foraging excursions for his drink, and while others secured buttermilk, coffee, and whiskey, be always obtained a full Bupply of his loved kerosene. Once during a long march bis oil gave out, and he almost weut crazy, and suffered all the tortures of a drunktird with tbe tremens. He was sect to a ' hospital and recovered immediately after being allowed to swallow a cup of kerosene. Burrows now drinks Dearly balf a gallon of oil a week, and he uses only the very best. His health is perfectly good, bis appetite never fails, and he h'is out koown organic troubles. He says that the oil gives him exhilaration, and burns him aa it passes down liiq throat ju4 about as much as whiskey would ordinary people.