Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16
Temperance Notes.

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! ABSINTIIE-DRINKlNGi is becoming alarm
ingly prevalent in France.
BISMARCK. it is announced, is going to
start brewery at FREDERICKSBURG.
THERE are 100000 children enrolled
in Bands of Hope in the United King
dom.
IN Para. Brazil, a license to sell LIQUOR
costs IS: license to keep school costs
| $40.
"SHAMEwATER" is an appropriate name
given to strong drink on the Dark Com
tinent.
ABOUT s52.ooo,0oo annually is ex-
pended on insane persons, idiots, and
dear-mutes.
| CALIFORNIA has the largest VINEYARD
IN the world, and the most extensive
wine cellar.
SIR JOHN GoRsT states that there are
nlnteen brcweries in India, brewing
4,S6O.2S2 gallons.
A BOY IA years OF age was taken off a
street car in Cincinnati the other day
stupidity drunk.
In Chicago, says leading brewer of
that city, So per cent. of the saloons are
controlled by the breweries.
A PROMINENT firm of glass-makers in
Philadelphia, not long ago, refused a.
large order for bottles from a Honor
house.
THROUGHOUT Russia there are l39. 700
places for the sale of Intoxicating drink.
or one public house for every 731 inhab-
itants.
TIE New York Clearing House re-
Gently Endorsed two checks to the yalnc
OF So, 16s, 432, the price of a single pur-
chase of beer.
Tie Church of England Temperance
Society has opened a Home in North
London for inebriate women of the mid
die class.
HE death-rate in the London Tenn
perance Hospital during 1855 was the
lowest OF any of the London HOSPITALS
being rs per cent.
IT was stated in the House of Lords
recently that the merchants of England
ship every year to the west coast Of A.
RIGA 10000 tons of rum and gin.
The New York Su,, mentions drunk
ard As years old who has a drunken
father 20 years old, and drunken son
% years old. Alcoholism and hereditv.
ACCORDING to the Inland Revenue re-
turns up to March 80 of the present wear
ireland consumed last year 4,71O, 6s3 gal
Ions OF spirits and 2,46O,6 barrels of
beer. VI
DIR. HENRY MILLER tells of the phos-
phorlc odor at times emanating from the
skin OF drunkards, and mentions that
their breath has been seen to glow in tho
dark. VIZ
DE. b. w. RICHARDSON says: "Not one
OF the transmitted wrongs, physical or
mental, is more certainly passed on to
those yet unborn than the wrongs which
are inflicted by alcohol"
SAYS the London Christian World 70.
fcrring to England: "Nearly all the on
position to the Salvation Army comac
from the public-house element General
Booths followers being regarded as tha
deadllest foes of the liquor traffic"
A VERY practical suggestion for prison
ana prison-gate mission work comes
from MISS kingman, of Nebraska She
proposes that every local w. c. T. u.
iook out for the >onyicts that go from
lts vicinity, sending them literature.
making them subjects of special PRAYER
oufihS thelr term of confinement, and
ms W !" ~ 1Hem 10 honest life and
employment upon their release.
The Young Women's Christian Tenn.
perancn Unions of the larger cities will
give 81 eclal attention in the coming year
TO college Settlements" plan bv
which refined and wcll-to-do women take
up their residence for a time in the most
Undesirable quarters of the city, there to
glyf an object lesson in clearly, health
iulI home-life Such settlements" in
NcW York and Chicago are telling visibly
upon the "slums" by which they are sur
rounded. ''''
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