The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-08-22
ICED TEA
The Perlls that LInger In The Distance
Around tue Cooling Beverage.

Singular enough, science haS not
yet asssiled iced tea. But il will NOT
do Il permit people to enjoy this cool.
delightful beverage, simply uecsuse
lis taste is grateful To the wesried sys-
tenn during the scOrcbiug weather.
We must DO our duty, though science
may shrink from It, and the people
may cry out against us. There is
danger IN iced tea, and II you would
live long aud well, shun the cooling
cup. We have not the space To deI
vote 10 an extended discussion OF tne
matter, and can only cite s few in-
stances from long series of carefully
made experiments, which cannot fail
to carry conviction 10 the most in
credulOus mind.
On JuEe 10Th, OF this year, John C..
Hampstead, Of West Hill, began to
drink iced tea at dinner and supper,
He kept up this practice for nearly
three weeks, and then one day, going
down the Division street steps, he
slipped and fell, abrsdIng the skin on
both legs, and running 8 silver into
the bali OF his thumb so far that II
made his teeth ache when be pulled il
out. His clothes were also consider
ably torn. When be went home that
evening he learned that his eldest boy
had been whipped at school for stick.
ing pin as far through another boy
Rs the head would let it &C. He was
warned TO quit drinking iced tea, but
he persisted in the practice, and q
now sleeping in the valley between
West End North Hui, where he lives,
and says he never felt so well in his
life. But may be he lies about it.
Henry Esterieldt, OF Eighth street,
drank iced tea regularly every sum-
mer for three years. He noticed that,
after drinking it about two months,
his boots began TO run over at the
heel. He persisted, and one Sunday
afternoon, while he WAS out driving,
his horse ran away anti smashed SI7
out Of = borrowed buggy. He paid
the money, but neglected ths warn
ing. He went on drinking iced tea,
and ia less than six weeks some one
poisoned his dog. These statements
eau all be verified by writing ts Mr..
Esterfeldt, who Is now living in Kan
sas City, the father of eleven children,
sill OF whom inherit their fathers
vice.
A young woman who did plain saw
ing ln this city, while employed in
the family of Ralph Henderson, OF
Maple street, became addicted during
the summer to the use OF iced tea,
She coon ran = sewing machine
needle through her thumb, and, for
many days, whenever she picked up q
cup OF iced tea, 3 sharp pain rau
through her thumb. She refused to
obey the warning, however, and in
six weeks she was carried away. The
man who carried her away. married
her first, and they are now living in
SagetOWD.
Last week, 1T the beginning Of the
heated term, two eminent scientific
gentlemen Of Burlington took .
strong, healthy black-Rnd-tan dog,
and immersed him in 9 tub Of pure
eistern water, into which q weak So
luton of iced tea had been poured.
They held the dogs head under the
water fifteen minutes, although he
struggled Violently, thus showing the
natural and instructive aversion to q
substance which intelligent human
beings blindly and eagerly drink, and
when the gentlemen took him out Of
the tub he was quite dead. II q tea
eupfll of iced tea IN q tubful OF water
will kill 3 dog, think for yourselves
what must be the effect OF q strong,
diluted cup of this deeOetiOn upon the
system OF 8 weak wRmAn.-Bl BlTlinq.
ton Hd1UEeye.