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SIGNIFICANT STATISTICS.

Mr.. Nelson, the most distinguished Of Eng,
ish actuaries after long and careful investi-
cations and comparisons, ascertained by &C
tual experience the following astounding
facts:
Between the ages OF, fifteen and twenty,
where ten total abstainers die, eighteen mod
crate drinkers die.
Between the ages of twenty and thirty,
where ten total abstainers die, thirty -one
moderate drinkers die.
Between the ages of thirty and forty, where
ten total abstainers die, forty moderate
drinkers die. Or, expressing the fact in an
other way he says: A total abstainer twen-
ty years old has the chance Of living forty
four years longer, or until si1ty-four years
old.
a moderate drinker has the chance Of liv-
ing fifteen and one-half years longer, or until
thirty-fve and one-half years old.
A total abstainer thirty years old has the
chance of living thirty-siX and one-half years
longer, or until sixty-si1 and one-haf years
old
A moderate drinker thirty years old has
the chance Of living thirteen and one-half
years longer, or until forty-three and three
fourths years old.
A total abstainer forty years old has the
chance of living twenty eight and one-fourth
years longer, or until sixty-eight and one-half
years old.
A moderate drinker forty years old, has
the chance Of living eleven and two-thirds
years longer, OF until ffty-one and one-haf
years old.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Last yeur 1856 people died Of delirium
trenens in England.
Drinking-shops in California increased in
eight years from Il, 900 to 81, 900.
England and Wales in February last had
total paupcr population of 1926
Drink produces sickness. A careful COM
putation gives about 10000 persons stimuli
taneously sick in the United States, as the re-
suit of using intolcants, at a cost Of more
than $50, 900, 900.
The protest of the high caste Hindoos
against the sale of liquor has drawn from
the viceroy Of India the declaration that
drunkenness is only prevalent among power
full and progressive races. According to the
theory of this statesman, the drunker the
Hindoos get the higher they are climbing in
the scale of civilization.
DR.. Huss, of Sweden, says that half his ma
ton are annually consuming an average Of
forty gallons Of liquor each; that new dis
eases have increased fearfully in prevalence
and intensity, and that, in consequence, the
Swedes have deteriorated in stature and
physical strength. The testimony from
France and other nations of Europe is SINH
lar.
Mr.. N. A. Gault who has been at work for
the W. c. T. U. in Missouri, tells of one town
where an enterprising citizen was about to
open a billiard hall but was forestalled by the
ladies of the W. C. T. u, who paid the ten
dollar license fee and established lunch coun-
ter and reading room instead Of the billiard
al To-
in going to the saloon with their knitting, sit
ting all day and evening until the saloon closed
out.
Recent official inspection Of Russian prisons
has revealed sad state Of overcrowding. A
general increase of crime is reported, of which
Che widespread drunkenness now prevailing In
the village communes is principal cause In
one prison in the Caucasus there were said to
be but few weeks ago three hundred and
sixty prisoners huddled together in building
designed for but eighty cqnvicts. The Gov
ernment does nothing to check this growing
svh Of drunkenness, but rather encourages
the licensed taYerns.