Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — To Shame Drunkards. [ARTICLE]

To Shame Drunkards.

It appears from a statement in a Russian newspaper that General Wahl, the Governor of St. Petersburg, has devised a new method of shaming the tipplers of the Muscovite capital into sobriety. In order to encourage the spread of temperance the General has issued a peremptory order that the names and addresses of all people, whatever may be their rank or sex, found in the streets in a disorderly or intoxicated condition, shall be printed on large posters and publicly displayed atcertain points of the city and also published in the Official Gazette. General Wahl’s procedure is only a modification of a system put in force some fifty years since by one of his predecessors in office. Drunk and disorderly cases, whether they belonged to the upper or the lower classes, were compelled, under the supervision of the gendarmes armed with stout canes, to sweep the streets for a certain number of hours every morning, and the moujiks, whether male or female, were subsequently taken to the police station and regaled with a copious dose of birch. There is a curious engraving representing those involuntary scavengers at work in a book entitled “Les Mysteres de la Russie,” by M. Fredic Locroix.— [Londqn Standard. Vegetable Drossy. Some recent experiments atCornell University, Ithaca, have aroused much interest on account of the development of what appears to be a form of plant dropsy. Tomatoes grown in the warm, moist air of the forcing-houses had leaves that were swollen and semi-transparent. The swelling continued until the veins of the leaves burst and considerable liquid flowed out. This was caused by too much water at the roots ( and an over-supply in the air. The leaves were not able to give off the water supplied from the roots and stalks, and the congested condition of tlie leaves and subsequent bursting of the veins was a true type of a dropsical condition.—[New York Ledger.