New-York tribune., 1900-12-27
THE TALK or THE DAT.

A City OF Mexico correspondent of THE Boston
Herald says that drunkenness is Increasing IN
Mexico. Every grocery store nowadays Is m
complete without its cantina shut of usually oy
glazed thin wood partitions. and with more
or less successful imitation OF an American BAR
for so has civilization given this doubtfui ooo
to Mexico Grocery lads. mostly young Spaniaros.
tend the bars and sell frankly artificial wines ana
fraudulent brandy and mix the most incredibly
bad cocteles. CDo you recognize the familiar cock
tai?) With the multiplication Of these cantinas IN
the American style often boldly displaying the sign
'Barroom, American drinks has come scourge OF
alcoholism In this city such never known
before. Every day the police pick up the victims
Of alcoholic excess. half dead and prone in the pub
lie ways in the lower quarters OF this city. and
take them to the police station. Dead from aico-
holic congestion. is one of the most common rec
ords in the police stations among the lists Of IA
talties The poor and i'll fed drink to gain
sensation of transient comfort They are empty
stomached and crave warmth, the false sensation
being fed. Mere lads, sent on erranSs shop boys
out collecting bills, go the barrooms for copita
DRAM"
fairly trembled with JOY to think OF my enemy's
YOU viii bring the foul crime home to him?"
NO; we merely deliver it f. O. b. said the de-
At this my brain reeIed-(Detroit Journal
The Old Age Pension act. which has just been
enacted by New South Wales, provides that every
person Of good character the age Of sixty
five who has continuously resided In the colony for
twenty-five years shall receive pension OF 100 per
annum; but II husband and wife be both eligible
for the pension list they receive only f1s los
each The pension is TO be diminished by Fl for
every II of income possessed by the pension
er. The act will be administered by district boards
appointed by the Governor
How Soon We Are Forgotten.-'I see that all
the Dreyfus proceedings have been dropped; ped ....
Just the way every one of those bribed Council
men would get off."-(Cleveand Plain Dealer.
The annual day of humiliation and prayer has
just been observed in Prussia. according TO long
established custom and a great many of the Ber-
lin newspapers took occasion to print articles upon
the recent deterioration in public morality. They
asserted that the rapid industrial development or
the country and the corresponding improvement In
its financial condition had resulted In an alarming
growth Of social evils and abuses.
Small Matter-New Man (signal ofHce)-Indi-
cations are for fair weather and nOrtherly winds.
Old Man-oh any of 'em. Nobody knows the
them to see.--CNew- York Weekly.
The British Government is about TO give gra-
tuity Of than million pounds TO the soldiers
employed in South Africa but as there are more
than two hundred thousand In the field the unit
or gift for the simple private is only e. Lieuten
ants are TO have six times that. captains twelve
times majors sixteen times observation-disclosures
thirty-two times and up TO generals, who
receive f2,OO0 each.
They said his heart never would soften
At sight of the woes of the poor,
Yet he loosens his pursestrings quite often
He has TO when putting in more.
philadelphia Press.
The Aspnwal mansion, in Winthrop Road.
roCkne, Mass. which has just been torn down,
was crowded with associations of the early days Of
the century. The house built in 1893 by Dr.
William AspinwaH. At that time 1t commanded an
unbroken view of Boston and the Charles River
with all the town for miles around. Dr. AspinwaH |
had purchased the hill when il comprised forty |
acres of land, in IT'S. He took part in the /
battle of Lexington and assisted in chasing the /
British to Charlestown. a portrait OF the doctor.
taken when he advanced in life. resembled /
that OF Washington that, when the house of his |
son raided by prO-slavery mob In this city, |
this portrait the only spared.