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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3561, 26 May 1880, Page 2

The following may be of interest to those anxious to promote the cauae of temperance:—Mr Jago, of Dunedin, in the course of a lecture on intemperance, said:—The statistical table of an insurance company, in which tie lives of insurers were divided into the abstaining and moderately drinking classes, showed as follows :—Abstaining class—deaths expected, 187; deaths occuring, 117; saved, 70. Moderately drinking classdeaths expected, 299; deaths occurriog, 317; excess, 18. For this disparity of figures the directors could assign -no reason except the simple one that the one class used stimulants and the other did not. Dr W. B. Carpenter, the great physiologist, also noted that the nearer a commuiuy approached to total abstinence the lower did the rate of mortality become, and had quoted from a return finished in 1819 to the Government of India, a table with the following results —450 abstainers, 5 deaths; 4318 temperate persons, 10 deaths'; 942 intemperate persons, H2 deaths. It was remarkable that such was always the rate of mortality under such conditions for a given period. A long list of the ages to which teetotalers may attain gave an average period of 73 years (nearly) to each life, an argument sufficient to rebut the prejudices that some entertained about abstainers not living long. a "Come, go to bed, Eddie," said an anxious aunt, " you see the sun has s«t, and the little chiokens all go to roost at that time." " Yes, aunty," said Edwin, "but the old hea goes with them." Mr Robert Bush, of South Popham, in Norfolk, was to have been married last week to a young woman of that place at the parish church. The bride's party assembled, but the bridegroom did not appear. The officiating clergyman and clerk, after waiting till the expiration of the canonical hours (which, luckily for them, have not yet been extended to four o'clock), took their departure, and found on enquiry that the bridegroom, after lying in bed till ten o'clock, had suddenly put on his working clothes and gone out into the stackyard. Since that time he has not been seen by any of his relatives.—Sutton News. A country editor lately returned a tailor's bill endorsed, " Declined handwriting illegible." Holloway'S Pills.—Nothing preserves the health bo well as an occasional alterative in changes of weather, or when the nerves are unstrung. These Pills act admirably on the stomach, Uyer, and kidneys, and so thoroughly purify the blood, that they are the most efficient remedy in warding off derangements of the stomach, fever, diarrham, dy sentry, and other maladies, and giving tone an energy to debilitated constitutions. AH who have the natural and laudable desire of maintaining their own and their family's health, cannot do better than trust to Holloway's Pills, which cool, regulate, and strengthen. These purifying Pills are suitable for all ages, seasons, climates, and constitutions, when all other means fail, and are the female's best friend. j