Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-11-27
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Contributed by Ladies Of Washington Temper
ance Union,l
TEmPERANCE NOTES.

with a bottom any thicker than the
sides. That trick was left to Yankee
ingenuity.
THE Bavarians drink annually about
l4714 gallons of beer per person; the
annual outlay for it is over $4,000, 900.
In Nuremberg the average for each in
habitant is 212 gallons; in Munich, 248;
and in Ingolstadt, 52s gallons.
A SHORT-LIvED CLAss.-A prominent
life insurance office in London declares
that the mortality among the publican
Qiquor selling) class is 50 per cent.
greater than among its members gener-
ally /; and the Insurance Directory states
that 'fit is notorious among insurance
offices that inn keepers and publicans
are a short lived class"
Gen. DIx-A PRAIsEwoRTHY EXAM
pLE.-The late Gen. Dix leaves as a leg
acy to property owners praiseworthy
example, which all would do well to
follow. Writing to an agent in Chicago
having charge of some Of his property,
Gen. Dix says: 81 am very glad you
have allowed the Woodland house to
remain vacant instead of renting it for
the sale of spurious liquors. would
rather let it remain vacant to the end
of time than have it rented for such
purpose. l consider rum the cause of
nine-tenths of all the murders, poverty
and crimes in the country, and no
earthly consideration would induce me
to contribute in the remotest manner
to its sale."
BRITISH EXPENDITURE FOR DRINK
Sir Wilfred Lawson, writing in the
Nineteenth Century on the use of intox-
icating drinks, says: 'NO one fayors
excess. But though no one faVOrs ex-
cess, tits admitted on all hands, that as
nation we do exceed, and that 9l49,-
OOO, 900 $500, 900, ,OOO) per annum is far
too much to be spent on brain-pOison
by the people Of the United Kingdom.
If drink were merely harmless lux
ury, the above sum would be a start
ling national expenditure; but when
we reflect that the consumption Of this
drink is by the almost unanimous testi-
mony of our judges, police, prison and
poor-law authorities, and all those in a
position to know the habits of the peO-
pie, pronounced to be the main cause
of crime and pauperism, it becomes
truly alraming."
BRAIN-woRK, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.
James Parton concludes a recent very
suggestive article upon the habits and
death Of Bayard Taylor (whom he had,
as personal friend, warned against
the danger of wine and beer drinking,
and smoking) as follows: "Mental la
Dor is not hostile to health and life,
Butt am more than eyer convinced
that man who lives by his brain is of
all men bound to avoid stimulating his
brain. In this climate, to stimulate the
brain by alcohol and tobacco is only
slow kind of suicide. Even the most
moderate use of the mildest wine is not
without danger, because the peculiar
exhaustion caused by severe mental la
Dor is a constant and urgent temptation
to increase the quantity and strength Of
the potation. / would say to every
young man in the United States, if |
could reach him: If you mean to at
tain one of the prizes of your profess
sion, and live cheerful life to the age
of eighty, throw away your old pipe,
put your cigars in the stove, never buy
any more, become an absolute teetOtal-
er, take your dinner in the middle of
the day, and rest one day in seven.
SOME BEER STATIsTIcs.-T National
Brewers Association, which recently
met in St. Louis, presented some statis-
tics of the enormous production and
consumption of beer in this country,
which will be of great interest to tenn
perance workers, and will doubtless
cause them to open their eyes in astons
ishment and alarm, During the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1878, as shown by
the sales Of internal revenue stamps,
9, 473, ,361 barrels of beer were produced,
an increase over the production of 1877
of 313, ,6S5 barrels. Estimating the pop
ulation of the country at 45,0O0,OO0
and suppOsing each barrel to contain
400 glasses, the above figures woul(
give 81 glasses Of beer to every man
woman and child in the land, or on
barrel for less than every five persons.
Atfve cents per glass National drink"
costs the people $199, ,467, ,22O. Does any
one wonder at the building up Of mag
nifcent breweries and the increasing
poverty Of the working people, who
are the chief consumers Of this vile
drink? The beer returns for the first
nine months of the present fiscal year
show an increase over the same period