His Logs Wore Drunk.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 219, 11 December 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

His Logs Wore Drunk.

A popular druggist in town had a queer experience tha other day with the lower and upper parts of his body. Ha was in his shop with hts assistants a little after dusk. One of them poured out aglass of what was supposed to bo cider, which the proprietor dr auk and followed up with several more glasses. He thought it had a peculiar taste for cider. He began to feci a weakness about the legs and sat down, It was lucky that ho did, lor no sooner had he seated himself than he discovered that his lower limbs were too much intoxicated to carry a straw, much leas a human body. Ho described his sensations : ‘‘ X felt that my logs wore too weak to bear me up, indeed, I essayed, while the clerks were not looking at me, to get up, but could not. Now the strange part of it was that my body, rny arms, my brain were perfectly sober, yet my limbi were stone-blind drunk. I was in a dilemma. I did not wish the clerks to discover that I was drunk even in my lower limbs. I called them up and told them they could go home. 1 astonished them. They thought it strange and departed. Now to get up, lock the door and take the street-car for home. I crawled or pulled myself along by my arms, for they were sober, and got to the alarm. I rang (or the messenger-boy and asked him to go and got me a cab. The cabman was large and stout enough to put me in his cab. I told him my lower limbs were paralyzed. When the cab reached my home 1 was drunk all over. I only remember the cab-drive: say to my wife as ho lugged mo m the door : ■ A pure oas •, mum, of paralimsh. It was in his legs, bogorra, whoa I started, and now the piien's got in hit hcv.l,’".