The Press., 1895-04-25
CT. U. DEPARTMENT.

2 he gbill providing for police matrons in aiElk of ten thousand or more inhabit- ants ptssed the Indiana legislature, tho nof n nIa Compulsory form.
 Not awoman's name, was signed to the petitions favoring re-submission of the prohibitory amendment in Kansas. There were 22,OO0 mems names.
 Secretary Herbert of the U. s. navy has decided that no naval officer can in- dalge in the use of intoxicating drinks, whether Oh or off duty, without subject R himself to dismissal.
 The Brewers Journal states that En- Rlish syndicates have $91, ,OOO, ,OOO invest ed American breweries, the dividend on which, at nine per cent. last year, was
 8,J90,OOO, and was paid in gold.
 We are told that there are 51 ,00O brew cries in the world. Of these Germany has 26,24O, England 12,784, and the United States 2,5OO. If there were 51 ,OO0 hreweries less in the world the inhabit- ants thereof would be vastly better off.
 The number of members of the English Poat Office Total Abstinence Society in creased during the year 1894 from 2,39O to 2986. There is also a society entitled The Constables' Total Abstinence So- eiesy,o with headquarters in Smithfield.
 The temperance cause seems to have incsRased in prosperity in England. It is said that there are over thousand parish es without single public house.
 h Wyoming and Colorado women vote on precisely the same basis as men, l. e. !, for every officer, local and state; in Kansas they vote on municipal questions only and in twenty three of the states they vote on educational questions.
 Archdeacon Farrar At the entrance ofone of our college chapels lies a name less grave; that grave covers the mortal remains of one of it's most promising fel- lows, ruined through drink. A few weeks ago wretched clergyman came to me in deplorable misery, who had dragged down his family with him to ruin. What had ruined him? Drink. When I was at Cambridge one of the most promising acholars was youth who years ago died in London hospital, penniless, of deliri- um tremens, through drink. When was at Kings college used to sit next to a Handsome youth, who grew up to be a brilliant writer; he died in the prime of life, victim to drink. An eloquent 1 philanthropist went down under this curse. These tragedies are daily hap pening because "drfnk is one of the
 nrest of the devils ways to man, and of
 n's ways to the devil"
 Aagood old gentleman, who was strong Fl opposed to tobacco chewing and to liq tor drinking, met a lady friend in cal
 md their eonyersation was as \ lausus madam ias f "Yesssir; a son.
 I t'.Ah, indeed! Does he smoke ?'' l s''No, sir: he has never as much as touehed cigarette"
 r stSo much the better, madam; the ust of tobacco is poisonous habit. Docs he frequent the clubs p
 He has never put his foot in one" sAllow me to congratulate you. Docs he come home late? ?''
 t'Never. He goes to bed directly afte1 dinner''
 s'A model young man, madam, mode young man. How old is he p + 1.-Two months"
 . The great wars of the world for twenty 1 five years, from 1852 to 1877, including the Franco German wBr and our own civi I war, cost fraction over twelve billion
 dollars. The cost of intoxicants for th Il sSnn nnriOd in tho TTnitod S+o+oc r1oc AZ