Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 251, 26 April 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

, . ♦ When the Queen of Madaßasc closed the drink shops in her kingdo the ex-publ icans asked f o r compensatic and she replied : ".Compensate those y< have -wronged, and I will pay the be ance -" i . • * Dr Hammond says, in speaking of i cohol *a a medicine : " I am .free say that, weighing all the points for ai against, mankind would be better, n only physically, but mentally and mo ally, if its use were altogether abolished Count Tolstoi, who is an ardent te totaller, has written an opera entitle " The Distiller, •' his object being to brii the ravages of the " vodka" fiend pr< minently before the people. A cyclist has beaten the record I riding from Land's End to Joha o' Groat, 860 miles, in eighty- six hours. Througt out his journey he drank nothin stronger than tea. The Bey. J. G. Mills, M.A., of S Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, has state that the " Drink Bill " of the hospito showed a remarkable diminution la: year. The amount spent on malt liquoi # decreased from £700 to £2, whilst the for wines and spirits was reduced b £500 -£1200 less m one year ! On tb other hand, the consumption of beer l the Bath Workhouse during the pas jear showed an increase of 611 gallon as. compared with the previous year, an< the spirits an increase of 114 pint! The local temperance reformers at calling attention to this expenditure o public funds, ' During the past five year 9 tha 1 special lecturers provided by the Unitei Kingdom Band of Hope Union have ad dressed upwards of thirteen thousani schools, at which 50,000 teachers am 1,400,000 scholars were present ; 571, 443 certificates have been awarded t children who had written satisfactory reports of the lectures. It is strongly pointed out that the us of intoxicants lessens the skill of a work ing man. A large manufacturing firn in Cincinatti recently made the follow ing statement : "A drinking man wil tarn oat from 20 to 30 per cent, les work than a non»drinker ; and in addi tion, his work is apt to be defective anc require overhauling." fciteps are being 1 taken in America U put a stop 'to the sale to children o sweetmeats containing alcohol, such sal< having been carried on unchecked for i considerable time*. Eleven hundred persons in North Da : kato have pledged themselves each tc pay five dollars per annum towards t fund to be' used in enforcing the probib' itory law of -that State. Certainly, the best medicine Known n Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extracf Test its eminently powerful effects ie coughs, colds, influenza — the relief is instantaneous,. In serious cases* and acci> dents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, ecaldmgs, bruises, sprains, it is the safes! remedy — no swelling, no inflammation, liike surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, etc. ; diarrhoea, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crooned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject all others. — Advt.