Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-15

Our NEW FIRK ESGINE-0ur new steam
fire engine, the first We ever had. arrived IN
New Castle the other DIV, and OF course
the entire population of the village turned
out to witness the trial of the machine
Mr.. Bob Parker secured the post OF honor
as holder Of the seryice-pipe and he was
mighty proud of it. The engine was down
at the wharf getting ready to pump water
from the river, and Parker stood almost
four hundred yards off, at the end OF line
of ho~4. waiting for the stream TO come, so
that lac could squirt 1t over the court house
steeple There was a great deal OF delay
while the men were fixing the engine,
and Parker lncautiously held the muzzle oil
the pipe toward his waistcoat while he dis
cussed the question of a third term Tor
Grant with Rev. DR.. Hopkins. At the most
interesting moment of the debate the en-
CINE suddenly began to work, and the next
instant a two-inch stream struck Parker IN
the stomach with terrific force and rolled
him over in the gutter. He felt a. 1t the
gulf stream had been shot through him
from front to back. Then the pipe gave a
couple OF eccentric JERKS, smashed Dr,
HOPKINS hat into black silk chaos and
emptied hogshead of water into his open
mouth Ii concluded the exercises by get
ting into such position that It could play
million gallons minute up the lett trow-
sers Leg Of the PROSTATE Mr.. Parker. Par
ker seemed to lose all interest IN the eapa-
city Of that engine. He went home Tor ms
Sunday clothes, and he has since intimated
to his confidential friends that II Grant
should spend the whole of his third term
squirting stream fifty thousand feet high
with that diabOlical fire extlngulsher he,
d, xr-..r,1A nr no aromnf the corner n
witness the spectacle.-MdI 4deter.
\ correspondent Of the Chicago Journal
saws: d" wrote you a few weeks ago that
the graneers a. individuals were beginning
t. INQUIRE what became of the millions OF
dollars which l. paid to the National
Grange And now they are inqui-Ing what
ha- been done with the 50 200 which was
appropriaied to the Northwestern home
steader-? And they have pressed the mat
Ter 10 a solution. The h0mesteaders don I
get cent OF ii. and this was how 1t was
done. In view Of the aid which the Iowa
State Grange had given the hOmesteaders,
the National Grange donated TO the State
Grange S30OO-that Is, the State Grange
owed the National sponge So 600, so the
National sponge credited the Iowa State
Grange with s. 600, ami that 5 the way the
home>teaders didn't get any of the So 1000.
The question now l., how the State Grange
allowed the National sponge To absorb 50.
900 of IT, funds. and by what authority il
was cancelled in that way. The homestead
ers very naturally cannot understand that
kind OF donation 10 them which goes TO pay
other peoples debts II l. barely possible
this query ins NAV be 50 persistently pushed
a to result in relieving the order Of some
heavy dead weights.
Varieties OF DRuNKKNNEss .-AleniSt-
have long distinguished alcoholism from
the affection known as dipsomania. Ii i.
the madness of intemperance, and manifests
itself hy irresistible accesses of desire foT
drinking persons whose charactersare above
suspicion and who in general lead lives Of
extreme regularity. Dipsomania, which i
instructive perversiOn. has no relation T.
alcoholism. " which j. a simple poisoning
though the former may lead to the latter.
Dipslmania bstrays hereditary influence IN
great degree there we must search for
it, origin. Alcoholism also may continue
through several generations, and indeed
may IN cuuseq uence assume a new charac-
ter OF malisuIty The son of :he drunkard
pois1ns himself with quantities Of alcohol
which would scarcely have made the father
A. fresh - let him commit the least excess,
and Immediately "A drunken delirium super-
vene- Alcoholism also ruins the health OF
the descendants IN several other ways. 1t
frequently causes the birth of idiolic. luna
tic, -craiul0uS and consnmptiye children.
Ii has even been maintained, with a con
siderable show Of reason, that fits and con-
yul,ion~ 10 children had no other cause
than the simple state Of intoyication Of the
parents at the moment OF conception. An
example in point j. cited by Dr.. Morel that
a workman who died Of chronic alcoholism
leaving seven children. The two first were
carried of at an carly age by commissions,
the third became insane al twenty-five year,
of age. tie fourth tried to commit suicide
several times and ended in idiocy, the fifth
j. irritable and miSanthropieal. the seventh.
a woman. suffers from hysteria, and the
sixth ], the only intelligent child, though
of an exceedingly nervous temperament
Rque DIS Dan M0ndcs.