The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-24
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THERE is a Temperance Insurance
Company in Scotland; and by its regu-
lations total abstainer can obtain in
surance at ten per cent less premium
than moderate drinker.
JOHN MILTON said: ''Reformers look
small in the eyes of the world, they arc
so far in advance, but large in the eyes
of God, they are so much nearer Him;
i for all real reform is Godward."
DON'T drink, treat r be treated.
No man ever made an ounce of reputa-
ton or money by doing it, and enough
has been lost to make paradise of tho
United States, and pave the streets with
gold.-AGtiOaat Educator.
THE British Women's Temperance
Assoc; alton have projected a large
work this new year. 1t is the establish
ment of a Home for Inebriate Women,
and the current expenses of such a
home were guaranteed at their May
meeting.
OCCASIONALLY q mad dog rushes
through the street, and forthwith the
authorities are called upon to muzzle or
kill every dog. And yet whisky kills
500, 200 people, and brings millions of
others to misery and want, where
single one is killed or injured from q
rabid dog. The moral is plain. Do
more muzzling of whisky.-Intcr
Ocean.
THERE are, at the very latest ac-
British Army in India. The Duke of
Connaught, in a letter to Rev. Mr..
Gregson who is the founder of the Sol
diers' Total Abstinence Association,
says: Experience has taught me how
much of the crime in the army in India
is either caused or aggravated by
drink, and one can not too often inn
press this upon the men themselves"
Evidently the men are being impressed.
The London Temperance Hospital,
which has just celebrated its anniyer-
sary, finds death rate during the past
year of only five per cent. The num-
Der cared for in the hospital was 584,
of which 300 left the institution cured
and 100 had been relieved. Abstaining
and Notwithstanding patients are re-
ceived in about iual numbers, and in
only two cases since establishment has
alcohol been administered A new
wing, with accommodation for seventy
patients, has been added during the
year.
A NEW DANGER. Some people and
medical people at that have begun TO
compute the danger to public health
from the brewing business 1t is said
that the very atmosphere is to be recon-
structed on different plan from that
of the Creator, and of course to the
great detriment of the creature, BY the
diffusion of carbonic acid gas from the
thichly scattered breweries. Twenty-
fUe billions is the round number of gal
Ions of this poisonous gas set free by
the breweries of England in one year.
flow long the blessed air of Heaven"
can stand this sort CT thing bids fair to
become a question. = Union Signai.
A LETTER from Barnum has been
published recently in an English news
paper, in which he says that twenty
years ago, when he began the manage
ment OF his travelling show with five
hundred persons, it was made a condi-
ton that they should be discharged and
forfeit five dollars if they were not abb
stainers from strong drink during lhe
season of seven months. Nearly every
one complied, and at the end of that
time he offered to invest their savings
and guarantee them the principal with
interest at six per cent. if they would
still continue to abstain. Over four
hundred accepted the oGer, and mos of
them to-day have seyer~l thousand dol
lars safely invested.
MUCH attention is now being attract.
ed to the new remedy, cocaine, as q
specific for overcoming the drink and
morphine appetite. Some experiments
have been made, and with encouraging
success. "A few drops elected under
the skin in the neighborhood of the
stomach have been edectual in subdu-
ing the most intense cravings of the
confirmed inebriate for the deadly
poison" Il is also claimed that it will,
after short time, effect a permanent
cure, if applied whenever the thirst is
and that the cravings will
soon cease entirely. Many eminent
physicians believe this, ard that it leaves
no deleterious effects upon the system
whatever.
The die from which the Franklin
cent was made is now being used as a