Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-01-03
BoRRowED BRarNS.

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In Great Britain ooo, 1000, 600 gal.
Ions of beer are annually brewed in
Germany, 100000, 900 in the United
States, Doc, ,ooo, 900 ; in France, 1877
500, in Austria and Hungary,
$50, 900, 900 in Belgium, sio, ESQ, 900 F.;
IN Holland, 100000 in Russia,
5000, 900; in Switzerland, "a, 500, 900 /:
in Denmark, $4,000, 900 in Sweden,
$1,000, 900 in Italy, 1000, 900. Total,
5,s46, 100000 gallons
The Chicago Interior makes com
parison of the annual expenditure in the
United States for intoxicating liquors
with various other of the largest items
of expenditure, basing the same upon
the census returns of 1880, as follows
Liquor, 5000, 600, 900; bread, $se5 1000
900, meat, $5o5, 5000, 900; iron and steel,
$500, ,ooo, 900; woolen goods, Saw
900, 900, sawed lumber, $a33, 900, 900;
cotton goods, SsIo, 1000, 900; boots and
shoes, 500, 900 sugar and molasses,
Sissooo, 900; public education, $751;
900, 900; Christian missions, home and
foreign, SIS, 900.
On the oft debated question, Does
prohibition prohibit" the Lewiston,
Maine, Journal, paper edited by ex-
GoYrnor Dingley, printedrecently the
foRbwing; "The internal revenue
office reports SI3 persons in this state
as having paid the United States tax as
dealers in liquors in 1882. This COW
ers about 200 druggists, also every low
seller, who having been convicted of
violating the state law, has paid the
United States tax to escape the severe
penalties imposed for unauthorized
selling by the national government.
But counting the whole as dealers, the
ratio is as one to 500 inhabitants. In
1850 there was one licensed dealer to
every a25 people. In the license states
generally there is one to 2Io; in New
Work and New jersey, one to ISo; in
California one to o5. The average for
the whole union is enc to 800. These
figures alone would indicate, all things
considered, that the sales in Maine can
not be one-eighth what they are in IL
censed states The report shows that
the amount of tax on the manufacture
and sale af liquors in Maine in 1882
was only f0nr cents per inhabitant. In
the United States, as a whole il was
$I.4o. In the fourteen cities of Maine
the persons who paid taxes as above
were one to 800 inhabitants. In sixty
license cities in other states, the average
is one to 1855. In 47o towns and plan
tations in the state there is but one
dealer to over 1000 people and in 35s
towns and plantations there is not a
single open or secret dram shop"
The London Whitehall Review
draws the following startling picture of
Fair Tipplcrs: "Let us follow the
movements, for the brief space of
twelve hours, of young girl who goes
much into society. Somewhere about
9 or 10 A. NJ. she makes her appear
ance in the morning-room-after hav-
ing jigged about in crowded assembly
until daybreak -languid, heavy-eyed,
unrefreshed by the matutinal tub.
Without the ghost of an appetite she
sits down TO an unwholesome meal of
spiced and peppered dishes, hot rolls,
strong coffee and cream. After break
fast--too tired, in all probability, to
ride-she whiles away the rosy hours
until lunch-time in doing intricate
things with colored silks, writing notes,
or futtering the pages of the books
sent in from Nudes. Luncheon is a
heavier breakfast, with the addition OF
wine and pastry. A turn or two in the
park, lolling back In barouche, varied
by an interval OF shopping in West
End emporium J home to afternoon
tea, with plenty of sweet cakes to de-
stroy the little appetite created by the
fresh air; another spell of the doife /a,.
nitnfe, languid toilette, and then din
ner. The real business of the day
begins long after the birds are asleep
and the stars are shining in the sky. A
menu in which you look in vain for the
plain roast or boiled; the glare of a
score of candles; a wine for every
course; laughter, excitement, coffee,
Irritation, and finally the brougham, in
which the flushed and feverish girl is
whirled away to more hot rooms, more
excitement, more champagne what
can result from such an unnatural and
unhealthy modeof existence but an in
creased craving for dissipation, and an
impatient desire to be relieved from the
lassitude attending reaction by the
abuse Of alcoholic stimulants 2"
The New York Independent says !:
"rhe Canadian is said to be slow, sus-
plcious and hard to do business with I;
but in his treatment Of the great ques-
ton Of to-day he is making a record
that places him in the foremost rank
as reformer Of abuses. In obedience
to an imperative demand of the better
class Of people for some check to the
growing intemperance Of Canada, the
Canadian Parliament enacted law to
be submitted to the people of each
county for adoption or rejection, which
while it does not absolutely prohibit
the ssasgfaaN,v Of alcoholic drinks
prohibits their sale from the public
bar, and as matter OF fact does do
away with very large amount OF treat
ing and lounging in public bars This
law, called the Scott act has bee.
submitted in over forty counties Of
the province, and in over thirty-fve Of
them has been adopted, and is now,
or will be very soon, in force in all Of
them. And il is promised by the pro
moters Of temperance agitation that
four-fifths Of the counties in the prov
inces will be under the Scott act
within two years from now. Accepting
the statement Of ils opponents that
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