Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16
FACTS AND FINDINGS.

The money paid in one year for thres
glasses of beer a day would pay the
rent for small suit of rooms for one
year.
A PARLIAMENTARY return gives the
number of convictions for drunkenness
in England and Wales during the past
year, and, keeping with the four pre-
vious returns, reveals a decided in
cresse. The convictions in England
nun, bered 1885, and in Wales TO-
ESQ. There had also been an increase in
the number of convictions for Sunday
drunkenness.
The undergraduates Of Cambridge.
Eng, have taken to drinking tea
after dinner instead of wine. But
though novel at Cambridge this prac-
tice has been in vogue at Oxford for
seventy years, the innovation having
been brought about by Newman and
Froude, even then famous, who induced
most of the other fellows of Oriel to
give up wine in the common-room after
dinner and substitute tea
SENATOR FRYE, of Maine, in q speech
recently made at Lewiston, said: My
deliberate judgment is, and measure
my words, that there is no worse man
to be found than the rumseller, and so
far from his being worth anything in
this question as to whether liquor
shall be sold freely over the bar to
whosoever wishes to purchase, say
that if every rumseller in the country
were in Jail to-day the country would
be ten thousand times better of than
it now is"
The London Standard, in an article
upon the French experts in the
adulteration Of liquors, declares that
there is scarcely any genuine wine or
brandy in the market. 1t cites the
testimony in q case of litigation in the
French courts which shows that the
art of initiating the brandy distilled
from grapes is now SO perfect that
only by analysis can it be discovered
to be an imposture. 1t adds that M.
Jacquemin, an cnterprising French
man, ''has succeeded in producing de-
licious wines without any grapes at
all" This is perplexing dilemma
for wine drinkers. A good way out Of
it is to drink no wine at all
HENRY A. HART, nj. D., says
drunkenness is a voluntary lunacy,
which causes three-fourths of the
crimes of violence, and, exclusive OF
itself, two-thirds of all other crimes
and two thirds of the pauperism under
which the people groan. If the doors
of all the insane asylums in the land
were thrown open and the whole army
of involuntary Iunatics were let loose
it is doubtful whether they would pro
duce one-half the devastation and hor
rors which flow from this atrocioui
vice. Can any man of common sense
ask If this is a crime. or question the
right and duty of society to punish it,
both for its own protection and as q
preventive"
The amount of restitution and misery
which can be traced directly to drunk
enness is appalling. In England. for
example, the enormous proportion OF
the national earnings expended OF
strong drink is attested by the impos-
ing contributions to the imperial ex
chequer derived from excise duties,
and it is certain that by far the greater
part of the stupendous outlay for drink
represents consumption Of alcoho
which even the defender of moderate
and careful drinking would admit to be
excessive. Hundreds of millions o.
dollars which, if invested in the neces
saries of life. would materially promote
the well-being of the English eomuni
tv. are wasted every year upon strons