Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1903-07-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NORTHERN WEEKLY GAZETTE.  "lIMEDITY." A very interesting study of hereditary drunkenness was made in the slimmer of 1896, by Professor Pe'lmltn, of Bonn University. He took certain individual cases, a generation or two back, and traced tho careers of children, grandchildren, and gkeat grandchildren, in all parts of the present German Empire, until biogratth lie w4s able to present tabulated last ies of the hundreds descended from Some original drunkard. The Person thus treated was a woman, w,bo was born in 1740. She was a tnief, k drunkard, and a tramp for the last 40 years of her life, vAlich ended in 1809. Her descendants numbered 834) of whom 709 were traced in local record from youth to death. Of the 709 th professor found 106 were born but of wedlock. There was 142 beggars, and 64 more who lived out of cha.Hty. Of the women 181 led disrePittable lives. There were in this family 76 convicts, seven of whom were onvicted of murder. In 75 Years this family rolled up a very large bill of costs in almshouses, trials%eourts, prisons, and correctional estabil4hments. Professor Penman saYs, that this bill, which the authorities of Germany, and therefore the tax_payers, have paid at least fire utillions of marks, or about 25°,n1 °OO. One would think it would Pay.fth nation to encourage sobriety. .J —oh% Patti nson , ra m 'nun -street, Staubot3e, R.S.O.  A US4t.TL PLAN't. It seems rather a, long way .to send fr`om England to Persia for insect Powder, when identically the same übstance might with facility be manufactured at home. Yet some of the subjects of the Shah do a considerable trade with this country, France, Turkey, and Russia. in the commoqity know as "Persian Powder.,, This powder is the finest rnednull known for the destruction of all "dtimestie" insects, and it also Preitect% clothes from the ravages of the 1110th. It is invaluable in the garden, where, sprinkled on. the ground and over the leaves and branches of plants, it successfully keeps away the many pests. Considering that the compesition of the powder is simplicity itself, it is a wonder that it is not more generally known and made in this country. It ! censists of the flowers of an ordinary ' garden-vant, Pyrethum Carneum, dried and powdered. This fkwer grows , Wild .in the Caucasus in enormous quantittes and is gathered and sent to Lillis, *hero it. is duly dried and mainufaetured into the powder. In Britain both Pvrethum Carneum and its vamty roseum are well known as family connections of the Common Feverpeh. They are ornamental composite plants, with leaves of a rich green, knd attain a height of about two feet. The flowers somewhat resemble a large daisy in appearance, the centres being yellow and the outside leaves various shades of pink. It grow 4 pr-lctically anywhere, doing best in 4 mixed border in ,sandy loam. It is a tlotrer at the present time in thousanqs of gardens throughout the country, and probably not one per cent, of its growers are aware of the, valuable properties it possesses. The simple recipe for the preparation of tlie Powler is to cut the flowers when fully blown, and then let them dry till they crumble at the touch. The, plant is eagily procured, and can be equally well grown from seed or dr. ision. For use in clothes drawers or wardrobes, a little lavender or other fr.tgrant herb may be added if desired, but this simply imparts an aor1eeohl(8 perfume without in anyway ronchancikig- the value of the Pyrethum as 3 tn oth killer.—R.. Johnson, WardleL near, Felling-on Tyne.