TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4909, 22 December 1894, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The Rev L M Isitt, intends visit-' V B o ing Europe and tie Proliibition 'H 9 Statos of-Amenca next month;-' H The Taieii Advocate asserts that i| s the closing of certain- hotels-in' 0 district has caused considerable in*v: i-el 0 convenience, but the amount"'of '■' l J liquor consumed at : increased; and the amoluit\of beer ' I in Sgal and lOsfal kegs consigned" to v * J lesidents would Astonish Ue Tem- ( '< 6 perancepaity ' . ' — *7 j- I, J s The GoodTempler Order has j, cenfcly. been planted in Saxony and j, in Bavaria by Miss Chailotte Gray, 1 the: continental missionary of the International Supreme Lodge. She ' ■ r has; also planted the Order in Hoi--0 land and watered it during the past feimonths, and now. goes to Switzo erland to institute a Grand LodgS. The The Bniisii-Medicah.Journal t recently contained an editorial article . it upon " Poisonous and edible mush- - ! - e rooms," in which the writer said:— s Strong alcoholic should 'i never be taken along with,wto soon • after eating fuiigi, ''Aneflnenced- ■ '■ mycologist and entHußiasao mycop- , hagistj- whose favourite ' disti 'is - j f/Ojprwtw:. d/j'ojHeMlfaritwi •" a violently from pains' in the limbs, s and a feeling as if the head was ■ swelling' to enormous proportions j after partaking of this fungus, and' d could only attribute the/unusual [. occurrence to his having taken two 1 - glasses of. whiskey shortly! after the ' meal. To verify thiß idea, aiiothor j meal of the same fungus was taken, • j followed-by a, glass of whisky after ' an.internal-of an houiy and within ' a short time the same symptoms n were developed: Since h nieut the fungi has been eaten on '• r several,occasions, minus the whisky,-, S with the most satisfactory results. 0 , The Templar says: "The Countess of Aberdeen during her recent visit f to Halifax (Nova Scotia) ondeared e herself to the )Vluta Ribbon women [ and all friends of Prohibition,. She " s gave an,' At Home' 'andi.garden L party on the magnificent grounds of.'! o. the official residence of the Admiral V commanding the British squadroii in!' / a North American waters. It was the 1 1 most brilliant and subcessful affair - 0 of this kind ever held theie.-Among ■ the many Americans present'were Gen,Schofield,commander-in-ohief of ? the United States army, : and; ladies, - 1 and United States Consul-General .. " Ingraham. The feature of the ! ° tion was the entire! absence .of wine . and liquors. This is the first time 1 iii Canadian history that' the wife 6f " r the Governor-General has held a rei 1 ception without. dispensing.liquorSj ■ • and marks a new era in Canadian ' Social life." ' lii Dr Hansen's'Eskimolia." a f translation of which into English has 3 just been published, Di Nanssn, who. 3 spentawholewinterwiththeEskimo; and understands them, perhaps, as . well as anybody, supplies 1 many de- ■ , tails of their character and sooial -• , conditions, their morals, mental r gifts and religions ideas., which are .! extremely interesting; His goneral • ; conclusion seemsto be that European. ' - [ contact with Eskimo.has - prac^ 1 • ! j tically ruiijed them, and may finally 1 / lead to their utter extinction, The ' ■ t Greenlandera seem, according to. ; Dr / , Nansen, to have been fairly happy/ , and comfortable till the . arrived among them.' Of the bad , habits to which tliey have becn jti.,■. • traduced' by European" -afiitact' brandy drinking is one, andflft say? that both women and men'(R^p'as- | sionately fond of brandy, notLcause * i they like the taste of it, but IrecaUae , it is so delightful to get .dim—,, : . " That the.intoxication; is ' n l a,u object in view aW " - ■ from the fact that the Kyaks do not " 1 greatly value their morning dram, " ! because it is not enough to make . . them drunk, Several of them therefore agreed to bring their portions into the.common stockfone of them ... drinking the whole to-day, the'next . 'i to drink to-morrow, and so on bv ■ n turns.". , It is gratifying (says the Leeds !. Mercury) to learn that 377' railway ' ; ; companies in - America jirohibit the' 1 • : use of intoxicating'liquors by their servants when on duty.The re-1 maiuder either have no rules oh this . subject, preferring to deal with each . ' * case as it may Occur, or they have modified restrictions, such as "not '' ; allowing men to drink to excess, or - ' requiring : them to be temperate in their habits, or discharging men for . : habitual intemperance or drankon- r ' ness. It is only a few years since ; ; any American railway first placed ° restrictions upon the men employed with reference to. intoxicants, and now, as stated, 377 companies prac- < tically prohibit their uso;. and these , , I railways are the most influential ones, employing a very large proper- '' tion of all the railway servants in J ' the country, . . ~;