The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-11-03
GENERAL GLEANINGS,

iHE saloonkeeper sells whisky to buy
houses. Other men sell houses to buy
whisky.
IT is a notable fact that one tenth O.
the men who die in Switzerland dix
prem aturely from alcohol poisoning.
The mayor of Jaroslaw, in Austrian
Galicia, has been treated to a publ.
ovation for his zeal in enforcing the
law against the sale of liquor t.
minors.
In a London police court recent,
there were among the prisoners twelv,
women, some of them well dressed
who had been drunk and disorderly on
the street.
SAM JONES believes that the devi!
does not care how many QUESTIONABLE,
we send to the heather as long as we
average thirteen thousand barrels OF
whisky to each missionary.
The National Temperance Cafe ant
Concert association in London propose.
to establish places of amusement, from
which all liquor shall be excluded, il
the thickly populated part Of Londor
as soon as permits are issued.
ALCOHOL was invented seven hundred
and fifty years ago by the son of .
strange woman, Hagar. in Arabia. La
dies used it with a powder to pain,
themselves that they might appea,
more beautiful, and this powder wa.
called alcohol.
No MAN but a total abstainer i.
allowed-under the laws of Michigan
to be employed as engineer, train dis
patcher, fireman, brakeman, or othe,
railway servant Any railway violat
ing the law is liable to fine of $50t
for each offense.
The price of alcoholic drinks ha:
risen very high in the government 9,
Kharkov. The authorities have ISSUED
orders to stop the distilling of brandy
altogether, for the present. and the ex
port of spirituous liquors from Kharko,
to other governments of the empire.
The following story is told of a re
tired saloonkeeper: II see you art
building new house, Mr.. Brown
Yes; you are right "Made tn,
money ont of whisky, I suppose?'
No" ''Why, you are liquor dealer
are you not?'' "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 will
the statistics of homicide in thu
United States. OF the number O.
homicides, 56.l4 per cent. is charge
able to native population, and 43. SO te
the foreign element. Over 81 per cent
could read and write. and over pei
cent had received higher education
More than four-ffths had learned NJ
trade. There were twelve hundred ant
eighty-two total abstainers, three thou
sand moderate drinkers and over twelve
hundred drunkards.
SEVEN HUNDRED school-teachers arr
interested in an order issued by thu
assistant clerk Of the school board a
Cincinnati. In looking up legal ques
ton he discovered that law had beer
passed by the legislature making i
mandatory upon teachers to have ex
aminations in ''hygiene, physiology
and the nature and effect upon thl
human system of alcoholic drinks.
] This law has been ignored or over
looked by fully six-sevenths of tn
teachers. The clerk has notified thu
teachers that he would refuse to hono
orders for salary in the future unit
the proper certificates are secured.
A PHYSICIAN says that a man may de
great deal for himself by sheer fore,
of will, and that in no disorder is i
easier to prove this than in deliriun
tremens. He says that one of his pa
tients is hard drinker, and that Will.
he never takes enough liquor to pre-
vent his attending to business he is al
| ways saturated with alcohol At Ger
tain intervals, however, the man re
ceives warning and he then "taper!
off until he has reached the minimum
in his daily. allowance. This warning
comes in the form Of blue snakes tina
wind up his legs and creep into hi
lap and crawl over the table and col
in his plate. He knows that they ar,
not real, so he sets his teeth and goe:
4 on with his work or his eating or hi.
| reading and resolves to be moderate
| Tie has schooled himself so we'll tina
| his wife does not know when lie ha,
reached his periodical climax 1T tn,
verge OF Jim jams .- s: :. .= =. (
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