Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-03
VARIOUS NOTES.


THE saloonkeeper sells whisky to buy
houses. Other men sell houses to buy
whisky.
Ir is a notable fact that one tenth OF
the men who die in Switzerland die
prematurely from alcohol poisoning
THE mayor of Jaroslaw, in Austrian
Galicia, has been treated TO a public
ovation for his zeal in enforcing the
law against the sale of liquor e
minors.
IL London police court recently
there were among the prisoners twelve
women. some Of them well dressed,
who had been drunk and disorderly on
the street
SAM JoNEs believes that the devil
does not care how many missionaries
we send TO the heather as long as we
average thirteen thousand barrels OF
whisky to each missionary.
ALCOHOL was invented seven hundred
and fifty years ago by the son of
strange woman, Hagar, in Arabia. La
dies used ii with powder to paint
themselves that they might appear
more beautiful, and this powder was
called alcohol
No MAN but a total abstainer is
allowed-under the laws of Michigan
to be employed As engineer, train dis.
patcher, fireman. brakeman, or Other
railway servant Any railway violat
ing the law is liable TO fine Of $500
for each offense.
THE price of alcoholic drinks has
risen very high in the government Of
Kharkov. The authorities have issued
orders TO stop the distilling of brandy
altogether, for the present, and the eX.
port of spirituous liquors from kharllov
to other governments Of the empire.
THE temperance question in Germany
is always interesting. The greatest
hindrance to work among them is their
antipathy to radical temperance views,
for to them temperance means modera-
ton. Free-howing beer seems TO be a
symbol of personal liberty and its con-
sumption the surest way to destroy the
sale Of distilled liquors.
The following story is told of a re-
tired saloonkeeper: II see you are
building a new house, Mr.. Brown"
Yes; you are right Made the
money out of whisky, | SUPPOSE
mo. 'Whv, you are liquor dealer,
are you not?n 'Oh, yes; but the money
I'm putting into this house was made
out of the water put in the whisky.
Every farthing was made out of water,
sir.
A RECENT census bulletin deals with
the statistics of homicide in the
United States. OF the number of
homici les. a6.l4 per cent. is charge
able 10 native population, and IS. Sc to
the foreign element Over 81 per cent.
could read and write. and over 8 per
cent. had received higher education.
More than four-fifths had learned no
trade. There were twelve hundred and
eighty-two total abstainers, three thou
sand moderate drinkers and over twelve
hundred drunkards
SEVEN HUNDRED school-teachers are
interested in an order issued by the
assistant clerk of the school board at
Cincinnati In looking up legal ques-
ton he discovered that law had been
passed by the legislature making il
mandatory upon teachers to have ex-
aminations in hygiene, physiology,
and the nature and effect upon the
human system of alcoholic drinks. -
This law has been ignored or over
looked by fully six-sevenths of the
teachers. The clerk has notified the
teachers that he would refuse to honor
orders for salary in the future until
the proper certificates are secured.