This abstemiousness has proved a faithful friend."
He died by accident at the age of eighty-three.
MR. HUBER, who saw 2160 perish of cholera in twenty-five days in one town
in Russia, says that "Persons given to drinking are swept away like flies.
In Tiflis, containing 20,000 inhabitants, every drunkard has fallen." Of
204 cases of cholera in the Park Hospital, New York, there were but six
temperate persons, and these recovered. In Albany, where cholera prevailed
with severe mortality for several weeks, only two of the 5000 members of
temperance societies became its victims. In Montreal, where the victims of
the disease were intemperate, it usually cut them off. In Great Britain,
those who have been addicted to spirituous liquors and irregular habits
have been the greatest sufferers from cholera. In some towns the drunkards
are all dead.--_Bacchus._
MALT LIQUORS, under which title are included all kinds of porters and ales,
produce the worst species of drunkenness. The effects of malt liquors are
more stupefying than those of ardent spirits, and less easily removed. In a
short time they render dull and sluggish the gayest disposition.--_Anatomy
of Drunkenness._
GINGER-BEER.--A man who has been a temperance-worker for forty-five years,
says that there is often alcohol in ginger-beer.
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