An Indianian boasts of haying lived 10 years with one wife without a harsh word or a flat-iron passing betweed them. We are sorry to learn, says an American paper, that a German chemist has succeeded in making a first-rate brandy out of sawdust. We are a friend of the temperance movement, and we want it to succeed; but what chance will it have when a man can take a rip saw and go out and get drunk with a fence-rail P What is.the use of a Prohibitory Liquor Law if a man is able to make brandysmashes out of the shingles on his roof, or if he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs of his kitchen chairs ? You may shut an inebriate out of a gin-shop, and keep him away from taverns, but if he become uproarious on boiled sawdust and dessicated window-sills, any effect at reform must necessarily be a failure. It will be wise, therefore, if temperance societies will but* cher the German chemist before he gets any further. * (
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1892, 26 January 1875, Page 2
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