The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-12-04
VARIOUS NOTES.

free from the saloon curse. One was
| recently opened there, but the church
people rose en- masse and protested SO
effectualIy that it was soon closed.
| KING KAMA, a south African CHIEF, is
said to be very enlightened and tries to
prevent the sale of ardent spirits to
his subjects. lie besought the Eng
fish government to prohibit the liquor
traffic among his subjects, but all in
vain.
NEVER DRINK.-I love liquor and l
love the fellowship involved in drink
ing. My safety has been that | never
drink at all. 1t is much easier not to
drink at all than to drink little. If l
had to attribute what have done in
life to any one thing should attri butte
it to the fact that l am tectotalcr.
AS sure as yOu are born, it is the pleas
ATTEST, the easiest and the safest way.
Henry w. Grady.
THE commissioners of the Lancashire
lunatic asylums state IN their annual
report just issued that although
drunllards are not generally regarded
as insane, it is Il question whether the
habtual tipplcr might not with advan-
tage be considered an irresponsible
being, and treated as such" They
point to the fact that in not a few
cases the only cause that can be de-
tected for a patients insanity is the in
temperance of one or both parents. -
Journal of Inebriety
MIR. q. BLACKJACK says: "The female
market is overcrowdcd, and wages
thereby reduced. largely through the
drinking habits of men," Mr.. Charles
Booth said: Factory girls are fire.
quently the daughters of drunkards. :"
In workshop in London where twelve
women were employed, four of the
number were found to be wage earners
because of drunken husbands. A gem
tleman employing seven hundred wom-
en- and girls in London said: Il can state
for fact that large number of our
female employees have to seek work be-
cause of the incompetence of their
male relatives"
AN American physician calls atten-
ton to the fact that the free use of
apples is an excellent means of pre-
venting the appetite for liquor. For a
number of years he has treated patients
suffering from dipsomania by rcquir-
ing them to eat apples freely at meals
and to take an apple whenever the ap-
petite TO" liquor was experienced lie
claims that this free use of apples is a
complete antidote for the appetite for
alcoholic drinks. On principle we do
not approve of substitutes; neverthe
less, no objection could be offered to
the use of SO harmless Il substitute as
ripe, sub-acid apples. -Journal of In
ebriety.
TEMPERANCE laws in Norway are
unique. A correspondent describes the
regulations observed in the cities. A
syndicate may be formed to sell
| licenses conditioned on the giving up
of all profits beyond five per cent. on
the paid-up stock to benevolent OBJ
| jects which depend on voluntary con-
tributions for support In Bergen, a
city of 50, 900 inhabitants, the syndicate
has a capital of $40 900, divided into 400
shares, which are owned by $50 stock
holders Shares are at premium and
the profits are fully 125 per cent. Since
the year 1876, $3.50, rs have been dis
tributed in charity. Seats are not al
lowed in country barrooms neither is
longing permitted. Prices of liquors
are posted in the saloons and each day S
sales are reported at night to the
agent for the syndicate. Drinking and
crime have steadily decreased since the
introduction of these stringent laws. -
Congregationalist.