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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4490, 26 May 1883, Page 4

THE EFFECT OF LIQUOR PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. Col. Carpenter, the Collector of Internal Revenue, furnishes the following figures for the year ending.April 30,1881, the year before the law took effect, and the year ending April 30, 1882,, the first year of prohibition :— From May 1, 1880, to April 30,1881, there were issued 1,977 retail liquor dealer's stamps, 32 brewers' permits, and 30 wholesale liquor dealers' permits. From May 1, 1881, to April 30, 1882, there were issued 1,787 retail liquor dealers' stamps, 24 brewers' permits, and 17 wholesale liquor dealers' stamps. The number of retail liquor dealers' stamps issued from May 1, 1882, to Feb. 6, 1883, is 1,895, wholesale dealers' ■tamps, 23, jand brewers' 13. It will be seen by this statement that, although there wag a falling off in the first year after the prohibition, yet the second bids fair to entirely outstrip the year previous to prohibition in the number of stamps issued. There cannot be much doubt but that the true way to enfore temperance by law lies more in the direction of high licenses and strict suverviaion than in any attempt at suppression altogether. This has been the experience everywhere in striving to control temperance. Grant licenses to men of undoubted character, make them pay a license that will shut out the low groggeries that do the mischief, put them under strict supervision, and enforce the Jaw absolutely.

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. The Rew H. P. Tucker, incumbent of Christ Church, South Yarra, preached an interesting discourse at that, church recently on the subject of Sunday observance. He Buccintly traced the history of the Jewish Sabbath-keeping and of the observance of the Sunday or Lord's Day, and pointed out that a clear distinction must be drawn between them.. The Jewish Sabbath and the traditions and customs which had gathered around it werenotto-.be considered in connection with the question to-day. The observance . of Sunday as a day of spiritual rest and recreation had sprung up altogether apart from it—a spontaneous outgrowth of the early free life of the Christian Church. It was only in the dark ages that Sabbatarianism lifted its horrid head. Rome created and Puritanism fostered it, but the teachings and the attitude of Christ and the apostles, of the early fathers, and of the reformers were distinctly adverse to the grafting of the strict Sabbatual observance of the Jews upon the Christian Church. There should, urged the rev. gentleman, be do restriction as to the manner of observing Snnday. People should be permitted to do as they like, providing that they do not interfere with others nor disturb the peace and quiet of the community. If they desired to go into the country, or to visit the libraries or museums or, other befitting resorts, they should be permitted to do so, while the church on her part should seek to show them something better, and to meet and beat the world in the fair open field. TREMORS OF THE EARTH. /The sensibility of the .earth to vibrations caused by a passing vehicle or other preHur^;l>aß been brought, out of late by the iiae, of ■-the microphone in watching for earthquake disturbances. , Another "';method of investigating the. phenomenon 1 has been introduced by Professor H. M. Paul. This consists in sinking a stout post some four and a half feet into the ground,-, anil, supporting upon it a dish containing an amalgam of mercury and tin. The brilliant surface of the mercury acts as a reflector, and an image of a suitable object is mirrored on it. When . , the ground is quite still the image is clear and well defined, but the least tremor of the earth blurs the reflection. In this way an express trrain passing at a distance vof - ono-third of a mile disturbs the mercury for two or three minutes, and a oae-horse vehicle passing five hundred feet away affected the mercury each time a wheel mounted over a stone.

A SOLDIER'S KIT. Boßidea rifle, knapsack, waistbelt, gaiters, great coat, and shako, the soldier receives a serge tunic (renewed every year) a clotb tunic (erery two years), one pair of cloth trousers (with an extra pair alternate years), two pair of boots, a pair of worsted glores, Glengarry cap, comb, rftßor and shariog brushes, knife, fork, spoon, 1 brass button stick, polishing brush for badges, box of blacking, two boot brushes, clothes brush, sponge, tin canteen, rough canvas bag, Bible and Prayerbook, bound up with Hymns Anciest and Modern.