Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-11-03
GENERAL GLEANtNGS,

houses. Other men sell houses to buy
whisky.
IT is notable fact that one tenth o,
the men who die in Switzerland die
prem aturely 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 t
minors.
IN a London police court recently
there were among the prisoners lively.
women, some of them we'll dressed
who had been drunk and disorderly Oh
the street.
SAM JONES believes that the devil
does not care how many missionarie.
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 Londou 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 s
strange woman, Hagar in Arabia. La
dies used it with powder to pain,
themselves that they might appea,
more beautiful, and this powder wa:
called alcohol.
| No MAN but total abstainer Il
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 a fine of $500
for each offense.
The price of alcoholic drinks has
risen very high in the government ol
Kharkov. The authorities have ISSUED
orders to stop the distilling of brandy
altogether, for the present, and the ex
port of spirituous liquors from Kharlko,
to other governments of the empire.
The following story is told of re.
tired saloonkeeper: II see you are
building a new house, Mr.. Brown?'
YES; you are right 'Made the
money out of whisky, I suppose?'
mo" "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 with
the statistics of homicide in the
4 United States. OF the num- Der Of
homicides, 1914 per cent. is charge.
able to native population, and 49, sc to
the foreign element. Over 81 per cent
could read and write, and over pei
cent had received a higher education.
/ More than four-ffths had learned nc
trade. There were twelve hundred and
eighty-two total abstainers, three thou.
sand moderate drinkers and over twelve
hundred drunlsards.
SEVEN HUNDRED school-teachers are
interested in an order issued by the
!. assistant clerk of the school board al
Cincinnati. In looking up a 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-seveDths of the
teachers. The clerk has notified the
teachers that lie would refuse to honor
orders for salary in the future until
4 the proper certificates are secured.
A PHYSICIAN says that a man may dc
a great deal for himself by sheer force
of will, and that in no disorder is il
easier to prove this than in deliriurn
tremcns. He says that one of his pa
4 tents is a hard drinker, and that while
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 Ntapers
off until he has reached the minimum
in his daily allowance This warning
comes in the form of blue snakes thai
wind up his legs and creep into his
d lap and crawl over the table and col
in his plate. He knows that they arr
& not real, SO he sets his teeth and goe:
on with his work or his eating or his
reading and resolves to be moderate
I He has schooled himself SO we'll tina
i his wife does not know when lie hal
leac1aed his periodical cliraax at tn,
lverge OF Jim cams. I - -.