The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-21
Blood.Drinkers in New York.


heavy burden to the taxpayers and a
encouragement to the philanthropist.
Blood. Drinkers in New York.
That the blood of bullOcks, which in
the time of Moses was efficacious in all
emergencies, is in these latter days es-
teemed as saving element may sur
prise many, but is nevertheless fact
which visit to the large abattoir in
Jersey City or any of the smaller places
of slaughter in this city will establish.
Not as a mystical cleanser and purifier
of bodily and spiritual ailments is it,
however, now received, but as scien-.
tific health-giving tonic to be taken in
copious draughts on an empty stomach
for the eradication of consumptive ten
denotes and the general building up of
an impaired constitution. Exactly how
many impaired constitutions are at the
present time being built up by the blood
of bullocks in this city it is difficult to
ascertain, for the blood-drinker, with
the caprice of the mineral spring imbi-
Der, strays from fountain to fountain,
and next draining the veins of a New
England heifer. There are, however,
it is safe to say, upwards of one hundred
and fifty people in New York and New
Jersey who regularly indulge in this
CORY beverage. Mr.. Fowler, the. Assis-
tant Superintendent of the Central
Stock-Yard Abattoir in Jersey City,
says that blood drinking first came to
his knowledge about year ago. A gen
tleman called upon him and asked if a
lady might be allowed to visit the abat-
toir and partake of the blood that there
daily flows in torrents. Quite certain
that his visitor was in trifling humor
Mr.. Fowler laughingly assented, when
to his surprise and somewhat to his
horror, a few days later delicate look
ing lady entered the awful place and
requested a goblet of blood. 81 got
glass, 1" said Mr.. Fowler, " and | had a
nice healthy looking bullock stuck, the
lady standing by smiling sweetly all the
time, and filed the goblet and handed
it to her. / expected certain to see her
faint or do something or other, but she
just took and drained that glass to the
bottom, and smiling sweetly again,
walked away. Well, I tell you l was
astonished; but the next day she came
again, and at last she got TO taking two
glasses, and'' Gin the tone of a mineral
spring Owner) cit did wonders for
her" According to Mr. Fowler, more
blood is taken in the winter than in the
summer, and while now there are only
four patrons three ladies and one
gentleman''-there are likely to be doz-
ems in cold weather, when coughs and
colds become plentiful. 70
At the slaughter-h house which now Oc-
cupies one-half of the Manhattan Mar
ket at Thirtv-fourth Street and North
River, but one of half dozen regular
blood-drinkers remains. This solitary
topper isla gentleman with narrow
chest and a distressing cough. He has
no regular hour for his cup, but the
butchers expect him daily, and a like
" bullock is kept in waiting for his
arrival. With Il large-size goblet he
enters; the - likely bullock is brought
from the pen, and contrary to the usual
mode Of slaughter, is stabbed in the
side, that the thirsty consumptive may
have the very hearts blood of the ami
NAL. One glass, two glasses, and even
three glasses are swallowed with an APP
parent relish. " Shure its loik warrum
milk" said the stalwart butcher, as he
noted the incredulouS look of the re-
porter when he told this story of three
glasses of warm blood on an empty
stomach. "Faith, before the cars
lady rs used to COON here livery marnin
for dhrap of the swate flood, and be-
dad she drank it loik wather, so she did,
and she often gave me tin cints for beer,
so she did" .
'And do you ever indulge, yourself?"
asked the reporter.
"Is it drink We name? Arrah bad luck
to ye; would | drink the nasty stuff?''
In conversation with some of the Off
Gals the reporter learned that at one
time as many as a dozen people regu-
larry came for drink of blood, but of
late the number has been SMALL In the
neighborhood of Fo1ty-first Street and
Tenth Avenue there are six beef slaugh-
ter-hOuses that have on an average five
or six bloOd-imbibing visitors daily. No
charge is made for the beverage. lift
will do them any good they areJYeicome
to all they can drink say the proprie-
tors. On the east side of town, from
Forty-third Street up to Forty-eighth
Street and from First Avenue to the
river, there are several large slaughter
houses, all having more or less patron
age from the blOOd-drinking commune
ty. General inquiry among the butchers
seems to establish the factSthat in many
cases very positive improvement is to
be noticed in the looks of the invalid
after few months of blood drinking.
The dose, which is usually one glassfnl,
is only endurable when taken fresh from
the animal, and then has almost pre-
cisely the flavor of warm milk. Whether
Sleeps blood or the blood of swine
would be found equally efficacious no
one about the slaughter-houses felt at
liberty to state, but there seemed to be
a prevalent opinion that the blood of
the stubborn OK better assimilates with
the blood of man than that of the gen
tie lamb or the cantankerOus pig could
hope to do--NeW YorkyIVorld. q zeal
Soda Deposits in Wyoming. ~ :
Efforts are making to attract the at
tention of capitalists to the deposits of
soda found on the Laramie plains in
These plains extend ninety
miles along the line of the Union Pacific
Railroad, east of the Medicine Bow Riv-
er, and are twenty-five miles wide
Within the limits of the plains are sew
eral soda lakes or ponds. They are
formed by depression in the surface,
which in the spring of achye;r are fiji
ed with water produced from the melting
of SNOW. When the dry weather comes,
in very few days this water evaporates,
leaving the ground covered with clys-
tails of soda. Analysis of the product