Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-04-06

candle Illuminating power, at a cost to the
consumer of not exceeding 81 so to s1..5 per
thousand feet As the consumption Is IN
creased from time to time. the cost would De
proportionately reduced.-Boston 4drerfis-
er.
We invite the attention of Mr.. Darwin 10
the following very singular anecdote regard
ing the monkey Dot" belonging to James
Wardlaw of this town. as so peculiar an IL
lustra,ion of the ingenuity of the monkey
has rarely. if ever. been recorded: Inc
monkey was brought to Gait, from Decean,
India. in the fall of 1878, by Mr.. Wardlaw,
who had been residing in Hy':erabad for sew
ersl years. II fairly eclipsed itself on Sun
day before last The little creature had been
suffering from :oothache for several days,and
evidently suffered severely. On Sunday the
pain was more than ordinarily severe, and the
monkev. like its human type. resolved at
last to undergo a dental operation. But the
dentist, strange to say. was Itself. Dot
found a string fastened it around the aching
tooth. seized the end Of the string with its
fore feet. and gave a sudden shove, when
ierked the tooth out and sent 1t flying haii
way across the room. This having been ac-
complished, the monkey was at ease, ana re-
sumed its natural cheerfulness and amiabil-
ity.-GaH (Oata5io) Reformer.
Mr. John B. Cough made a melancholy
statement in the course OF temperance
speech. the other day. in Providence, X. L.
!. 1t is the opinion of Mr.. Cough that drunken
ness in this country has increased IN the last
quarter of a century. and is greater than II
was thirtv-six years ago. Mr.. Cough COM
plains that railway ears to-day are made reg
Il. tbat ar Offpn
seen drinking out of TASKS while upon their
travels. Possibly Mr.. Cough has INDUCED
in the amiable but great deluSion that,
through the influence of temperance socie-
ties and prohibtory laws, drinking was to be
stopped altogether; but the cold water mil
lennium is good way off yet What should
console this eminent lecturer is the vast dim
mutton of the drinking habits of the present
as compared to those of from fifty to sixty
years ago. What has been accomplished has
been the placing of temperance IN the posi-
tive category of the virtues. There are men
still living who can remember the time when
drunkenness was no great disgrace; when
everybody. or almost everybody. was in the
daily habit of drinking; when intoxicating
liquors were sold with scarcely any restraint
whatever The temperance men have done
great work. even if they have done no more
than make society thoughtful and careful
upon the subject. Allowance. too, must be
made for the increase of population. More
rover, statistics would probably show a much
larger number OF towns now in which there
are no grog-shops than existed even
| twenty years ago. In 1920, it was pretty
small and pretty poor town which did not
have a tavern and its bar-the bar usually
being the reason for keeping the tavern.
Once there was no source of festivity without
a plentiful supply of spirits and wines, and
these were also always provided for funerals,
weddings, ordinations, house raisings and
Fourth of July celebrations. 1t ought to
console Mr.. Cough that such work in the
way of increased sobriety has been accom-
plished. There has been much done, al
though there is yet. and probably always
will be, much to Tribune