The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-08-14
LIQUOR AND HEALTH

nation demands their being |
prohibited from any promiseu-
Gus use as a begeYGge. The ex-
tent ofthis adulteration is truly
alarming. Chemical analysis
has shown this, in hundreds of |
cases. There can scarcely be
a poison named in the whole |
Materi0 MedicG that has not
been detected in high priced
liquors kept for sale by those
called the frst-class dealers
rand importers. It is presumed |
that they donot always know |
this fact. Government, both |
National and State, is greatly |
in fault as to this matter. Not i
a drop of them should be allow |
| ed to leave the the Custom
House (if importedl until ex-
amined and fully tested by a
competent chemist, who should
| be. sworn to perform his duty,
and paid for his services, not
! by Hquordoalers, but the Gov
eminent. What is Government
for, ifnot the protection and
| and welfare of the citizen? And
shall the general health be
\ jeopardized, as at present in
this matter, and the communi-
4 ty quietly submit to it? Never.
Let Congress. instead OF vast
ing their time in catching flies,
, attend to this matter which
/ now threaten the life of the
nation. asa z.
The New York papers are
J now making some ado about
drinking JusiIoilin their drains;
! they ought to remember that
their OIL is but one of the dead
) ly poisons they are daily pour
ing down their threats. lobe
5 sure every physician knows
I tfis is bad enough. He knows
7 also, that copperas, longwood,
arsenic, and every other poison
: that can give y bead, and make
I these liquors sparkle and taste,
3 is to be found in them. Let
! one thing be remembered by
t every buyer: namely, the more
they pdy for these liquors, in or
2 der to get them pure, the more,
), on examination, they will be
+ found to be adulterated.
! When a man attempts to
y drink your health by such vile
/ stuff, just change the name;
Q use the right word for the bad
e thing. and call it your death
| "May / drink your death, siFf'
= Il Good Health. o4 Wy
1
= WASrED-MoRE MEN. The
!. Social Science philosophers o.
It Great Britain are becoming
IS alarmed. They have discover
n ed that the disproportion be
lie tween men and women is in
o creasing so rapidly in thai
~ ~ country as to threaten an over
I whelming redundancy of Thu
ct feminine gender. The stats
&c ties appal them Out of ever
as 100 women in Great Britial
Z above 20 years of age it ha
lg been ascertained that 81 ar
~ wives, 13 widows, and 80 spin
VI Esters. Of a little under 5000,
% 900 women between 90 and 4C
se, in England and Wales, 1,248
ut 600 were unmarried. The phi
of losophers cast about them fo
isl some means to escape this i'm
ut pending spinster rule. j
TO wholesale hegira Of females
1.-THE United States is recon
~. Imended. But the "poor things
NJ would be Jumped" from th
Al frying pan into the fire. The
rot fair sisters already on th
he ground wonld oppose their 81
av tering the matriomonial lists {
the New World, inch by incl
to And why shonldn't they, bein
likewise greatly in excess. /;
MT they are, Of the men7 In
!. population Of !, 100000, for 9,
*. ample, in Massachusetts, the
m were 10000 more women tia
/ n II