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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2159, 4 December 1875, Page 2

The Rev. De Wilt Talmage thus discourses on fashionable intoxication :— " My next word is to the fashionable and elegant! Beastly drunkenness is no temptation. But when intoxication fills its cut-glassor golden chalice under blazing chandelier, and before flashing mirror graceful gentlemen bowing to gay ladies as they click .the rim, then the thing is bewitching. Though the heavens fall we must be in the fashion. The wedding hour, when two immortals join their fate in holy alliance, and when of all other occasions hearts should be purest -yea," the wedding hour has been .the starting.place .of a dissipation which ended not until he who toot the vows' had .fallen under'the all-consuming .influence of strong drink, and she who, among thu throng of congratulating hearts, in clear sweet voice promised, * I will,' had wandered ont in. the cold winter night, and from the abut-' ment of a bridge looked down into the glassy, water, and then in hope of relief ,from earthly agonies, took a wild leap into the wave." . . ' ' ' Which; Accounts for the Intellect of Boston.—Boston babies ate weaned early, and fed on fish, saya the Brooklyn Argus. They accumulate mu«h phosphorous. 1 A chronicler, mentioning the circumstance of a group of Boston children going upstairs to bed in the dark, says that their heads appeared to be surrounded by an atmosphere of luminiferous ether, and that they reminded him of a procession of straggling meteors.