Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1880-12-10
Drunks in Every Style.


British Medical journal.
An English physician, DR.. Short
house. has been making an interesting
series of observations on the manner III
which various drinks act on different
parts of the cerebro-spinal system which
preside over locomotion. He says that
"if man partake of too large guam
tity of good sound wine or malt liquor
he usually staggers about from side to
side, his gait is very unsteady, and II he
comes to grief or to mother earth he
generally falls from one side or the
other. If he takes too much whisky,
especially the abomination which gees
by the name of Irish whisky, he is al
most certain to be seized with an IRE
sistible impulse to fall forward on his
face. If he get drunk on cider or per-
ry, the latter especially, he is certain to
fall down suddenly on his back and APP
parently without any previous warning.
He once saw a number of men who
had made too merry at a harvest feast,
all fall down again and again in the
same manner. He had never witnessed
anything Of the kind before, and was
not little amazed as well rs amused.
The farmer, who was a very shreWd
Herefordsbire man, told him that was
the effect invariably produced by perry,
of which his men had that day partaken
liberally. He has since that time seen
several isolated cases which have cor
roborated the farmers version of the
action of the overdose of perry or ci-
der"
Mr.. Shorthouse's researches, unhap-
PLY, have not been conducted with suf
ticient precision, nor have they extended
over a sufficiently wide field. American
investigators could have informed him
that not only do different drinks affect
men in various ways, but the effects
differ according to the quantity of the
beverage iInbibed. Thus, while four
fingers of the whisky peculiar to cheap
saloons will cause the subject violently
to invert other people, dose of four
teen fingers will lead him peacefully to
invert himself. The gin of similar re-
sorts, which is not distinguishable
from the ordinary turpentine of COM
merce. produces pedal entanglements
and precipitations upon the bridge of
the nose, fact observed by the psalm
ist, who made allusiOn to the relation to
the feet to the gin. The rum of these
places invariably induces pedestrian eX-
ercise upon the ear, the white Medford
variety leading the subject invariably
to walk off on the ear, while old Jamaica
as invariably inspires his right ear with
locomotive powers. The brandy of
these resorts is as instantaneous and
overwhelming in its effects as a thun-
der-bolt, and the victim who partakes
of it at once sinks down on every pOr-
ton Of himself simultaneously. AS for
the wines, their action is quite differ
ent. Instead of flooring the subject,
they impel him to wander over the face
of the earth and never sit or fall
down, though his path be strewn with
banana-peels and lie along string-pieces
of dock. Altogether, DR.. Shorthouse
can find far more fertile field for in
vestigation in these United States than
is open to him in England, even with
out making inquiry into the more alb
struse and complicated beverages Of
the Great West, like the far-famed
shepherds delight of Nevada, one drink
of which fascinating fluid moves the as
similator to steal his own sheep and
hide them in the remote sage brush
from his own pursuit.