Certain teetotallers, at Wells, Wisconsin, have made a sad.mistake. Selecting the largest barn in the place, they announced a grand ball, and invited to it their neighbours and friends. No champagne or claret cup excited the dancers, bat from great jars, expressly filled, lemonade was liberally served oat to the guests of the evening. Suddenly the drinkers of this apparently harmless liquor began to rush from the room. A general stampede took place, the lawn outside being strewn with people; who. were so violently sick that they could proceed no further. On inquiry it waa found that the gentleman who made the lemonade had, by some blinder or other, pat tartar emetic instead of tartaric acid into the beverape. The people of Wells will probably be shy of temperance driaki . at their parties in future.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3353, 20 September 1879, Page 2
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135Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3353, 20 September 1879, Page 2
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