Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — TEMPERANCE NOTES [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE NOTES

Rhode Island has a local W. C. T. U. for every ten square miles of territory. The Minnesota Legislature has- made it a misdemeanor for any newspaper to print more than the mere announcement of a criminal’s execution. It is reported that there are now six female police officers in London and that seven others are about to be appointed. It is a .monstrous anomaly that of all the trades which minister to our necessities and tastes, ibis injurious liquor traffic alone should on the Sunday .have an exception made in its favor. The Palm Leaf, published at Bombay,says that the Maharajah of the State of Baroda and his entire court are total abstainers and do all in their power to discourage the drinking habits of the people,"Durtnaimiex>ruisii yoveriiuiwut is making success difficult. The Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee has decided ts refuse a life insurance policy to any lager beer brewer or to anv man employed in a lager beer brewery, stating that the business is injured by the shortened lives oi men who drink lager beer. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has ordered tli&t no stamps be issued to liquor dealers intending to open business in Oklahoma. It is claimed that Oklahoma lies within the limits of the Indian Territory, and that the laws prohibiting the sale of liquor in the territory applv in consequence to the Oklanoma section.

The use of tea cigarettes is the latest, freak of Parisian women. The effect on the nerves is said to be much more marked than that caused by tobacco. Some women who were arrested and charged with intoxication, proved that they had used nothing stronger than tea, which they chewed in large quantities. Western Springs, Illinois, is enjoying what may be termed a tobacco sensation. The Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor, at a recent meeting, made an astonishing revelation of the amount of cigars and tobacco sold in the town by two local dealers, the facts having been quietly obtained from the dealers themselves. Devotees of the weed indignantly claim exaggeration but quite in vain. It is further shown that this estimate affords but a partial criterion of the whole amount used, many smokers supplying themselves in the neighboring city.