Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-06-27
NUMBER %.
Use of Stimulants.


cussed the subject of stimuants at some length.
He said
The five chief stimulants tea, coffee, alco-
hol OPIUM and tobacco. Stimulants, when
taken i'll a liquid form, go at once into the blood,
and, of course, operate promptly upon the tis-
sues OF all parts of the blody. Tea and coffee
stimulate; alcohol, opium and tobacco poison.
TEA AND coFFEE. ...-
Some persons can use both tea and coffee with
mpunty a few coffee, bat not tea good
many tea, but not coffee. Tea and coffee used
in moderation do not shorten life used in
cess they do, however, producing great nervous
rrtability and exhaustion. Milk and sugar
ought to he used with both tea and coffee.
Their nutriment appears to protect the system
against stimulants.
ALCOHOL.
Man will have something to drink besides wa
ter. He is drinking animal. The thing re-
qured, therefore, is only that he drink what
shall not harm him. There need be quarrel
with pure lager beer and pure light wines, used
in moderation. California wines are from very
sweet grapes, therefore fermentation (Which
changes sugar into alcohol) makes them strongly
alcoholic and intoxicating. The liquors now
drank poisonous. | have not seen a case of
delrium tremens in hospital for years. There
used to be such, but now such patients come in
crazy, raving from the effects not of alcohol,
but of adulterated liquor. AS between tea and
coffee on one hand, and alcohol on the other,
certain good man in New York used TO say that
q he was always glad to find that young man
liked tea and cohe, because then he was not
likely to become fond of alcoholic draks."
Again, tea and coffee retard the process of waste
in the system, and thus enables the too nervous
system to furnish working power to the body for
a longer time. Alcohol has no snch power
OPIUM.
! Opium eating rapidly increase in America
The effects of it are well known, yet its does
not necessarily shorten life. Opium used as q
| stimulant gives very pleasurabe sensations for
the time but these are followed by a correspond
ing depression, slough of exhaustion and mis-
erv which continues until the pleasure is
brought back by the use of little more opium
than before.
The moderate use of tobacco does not neces-
sarily kill But it cannot be said that the mod
crate use of it is harmless. Perhaps tobacco is
not quite so bad rum, but they are twin
| brothers, and tobacco makes men drink. To-
bacco depresSes, and the user then Graves liquor
to stimulate him. 1t is found impossible to
inebriate patients of the Of liquor SO long
they allowed to tobacco. The French
public revenue from tobacco from 1872 to~l932,
was annually 50, coo, 900 of late years it is
$50, 900, 900. During the former period there
were in France at any given time, s 900 lunatics
and paralytcs, now there are II 900. 1t will be
seen that the two totals increase in nearly an
even ratio--SiX and a-half times as much tobac-
co, five and a-half times as much lunacy and
paralysis. Those who live out doors may
tobacco without feeling it so much but not men
of sedentary habits. There have died in New
York, withd few years, three excellent clergy
men, nj of whom would be alive had they
not used tobacco The difference in the opera
ton of tobacco and alcohol is this while alco-
hol causes tangible changes in certain organs,
al, IIvl thn of tbp yho1a
system, so that the life ends sooner than it
ought to.
TRAVELLING SroNEs.-They have walking stones
in Australia, and, are informed, they have
travelling stones in Nevada Mr.. Hart, from
Pahranagat in Nevada, has shown the editor of
the Territorial Enterprise several curious pebbles
not curious in appearance but rather curious
in action. Here is description They were
almost perfectly round, the majority of them as
large as walnut, and ot an irony nature. When
distributed about upon the floor, table or other
level surface, within two or three feet of each
other they Immediately began travelling toward Il
common center, and there hudded up in bunch
like a lot OF eggs in a nest. single stone, re-
moved to a distance of three and half feet,
upon being released at once started off with won
derful and somewhat comcal celebrity to reen
its fellows taken away four or five feet it
mains motionless. Mr. Hart says they found
in a region of country, that although compara-
lively level, is nothing but bare rock. Scattered
over this barren region are little basins from
few feet to a rod two in diameter, and it is in
the bottom of these that the rolling stones
found. They are from the size of pea to five
and six inches in diameter. TIE cause of these
stones rolling together is doubtless to be found
in the material of which they are composed,
which appears to be oadstone or magnetic iron
ore.
LET THE WOMEN PRoPosE.-They have lib
eral and progressive" paper at Jackson, Ohio,