TEMPERANCE ITMES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4360, 4 March 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITMES.

Chips. In the extensive dockyards of the Wilson Line of steamers, in Brooklyn, no beer is allowed to be sold. On Shaftesbury estate, London there are 1,200 houses, with a population of 60,000 people, aud no publio house or pawn-shop. England and Wales had 900 criminal lunatics under, detension during tbe year ending October 81,1891, at a cost of £30,528 14s Bd, The Anglo-Indian Temperance Association has added 53 temperance organizations to its list of affiliated societies, bringing up the total to 140. The United Christian Commission, at its second anniversary in Washington, passed resolutions strongly condemnatory of the canteen systetn, Fifteen liquor dealers of Rutland, Vt,, pleaded guilty in court recently, and paid finaftinnnting to nearly SB,OOO, exclusive of coats, A. M. Bell, n Washington lawyer, recently smoked a dozen.boxes of cigarettes at Peebles, Ohio, went to bed in a hotel, and was found dead in tbe morning, Elizabeth Jones, a middle-aged woman, convicted of drunkenness for tbe 105 th time, at Tredegar, England, recently, promised to reform or commit suicide. The new British House of Commons contains 2G9 "Direct Veto" members, of whom 193 are Gladstonians; 18 are Liberal Unionists; and 4 are Conservatives. At a recent dinner commemorative of the birthday of Mohammed, pjroiii by Mohammedan residents of Londm, all the toasts were drunk in temperance beverages. Ex-Governors Beaver and Curtin, of Pensylvania, have both signed petitions, to be presented to tbo next legislature of that Stato, asking for the passage of a local option law. In the list of recently elected vicepresidents of tbe United Kingdom Alliance are the Eight Hon, Countess of Carlisle, Eight Hon. Lady Henry Somerset, and Mrs Massingberd, The Norwegian Total Abstinence Society comprises 853 local unions, with a total of about 100,000 members ; 42,000 men, 48,000 women, and 15,000 children under sixteen years of age, A Worcester druggist end bis clerk have been fined §IOO each, and sen. tenced :c thrw months in the. House of Collection, for selling intoxicating liquors to students of Worcester Acudeiay. The Unitarian Church Temperance Society, with headquarters in Boston, lias recently withdrawn its limited , pledge, and will hereafter conduct its work fully upon tbe basis of total , abstinence. Dming the first eight months of : 1891 the total shipments of Califori nia wine from the Stato by eea and rail wero 6,952,416 gallons, or 1,292,568 gallons more than ioityhe corresponding period of 1890. | Tbo Medical I'ionear is the name i of a new medical temperance journal, . the official organ of tho British Medical Temperance Association, edited by , Dr. J, J. Ridge, and published by tho ( National Temperanco League, Lon- , don. , A well-known actor, Harry Courtage, a hard drinker, walked into tho j JefforßOQ Market Police Court at Bob--3 ton, on tho 15th ult,, and asked 3 Justice White to commit him for five i days that he might "be compelled to 3 sober up." i Tho Board of Trustees of the - United States Brewmasters' Association have provided a " preliminary guarantee fund" of £4,000 for the r International Brewers' Congress, to - bo held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian Exposition. A civil engineer in India wrote to his brother in England, who proposed t joining him; "Dear —, unless you f are well established in your temper* 3 anee principles, you bad better bring * your coffin out with you, as they [ make them better in Eugland."

Hero is a paragraph for the boys, Cut it out. A leading chemist Bays, " There aro five ingredients in every cigarette, each one of which is calculated to destroy life. Firet there is the oil of tobacco; next the oil in tho imported paper, which is nearly as destructive ; third the arsenic introduced to make the paper burn white, and add a peculiar flavour; fourth the saltpetre put in the tobacco to prevent it from moulding; and finally, the opium which is sprayed on Suj tobacco to give it an insiduouß mfluence which it possesses over the brain. Can you wonder that the animal life of a young man is killed with fluob a combination ?" Philanthropic Party: " You said your family was starving, and I gave you a shilling, now 1 find you spending it on liquor."- Sad-eyed Party; "Well, you see friend, tho sight of my family starving to death so unnerves me, that I havo to drink to keep up my courago to faco them." The Figaro says:—" The madness of modern Paris springs from internporanco and 'over pressure,' but cfaivfly from alcoholic excess, In fifteen years alcoholic insanity has uearly doubled amongst men, and has morn than doubled amongst women. 'Over pressure' alone wiWuot explain tho increase of paralysis of the insane, continual augmentation is in evident relation with increasing intemperance. Dr Gamier states that alcoholio insanity is more and more taking forms' that are dangerous to life. It is alcohol which is the great purveyor for tho lunatio asylums, and which is the enemy against whom, above all others, it is necessary we ehoald defend ourselves.