Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — NOTES. [ARTICLE]

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Geauga and Harrison counties, Ohio, have no saloons. The women of Nebraska propose to hold all-day prayer ber 4. It is estimated that there were 15,000 original package saloons in lowa when the original package bill passed, and that nine-tenths of them closed the day after the President approved tho bill. The Minister of Public Instruction in New South Wales has decided to place a copy of Dr. Richardson’s work on "Drink and Strong Drink” in the hands of every head teacher in the public schools. Madame de Norikoff, a lady of eminence in Russia, in order to testify her active sympathy with the anti-drink movement in Russia has written a pamphlet in furtherance of the temperance cause. The National Temperance League entertained recently about one hundred members of the British Medical Association at a breakfast in Birmingham, the Lord Bishop of London presiding, with addresses by Dr. Norman Kerr and others. All employes of the New Jersey Central railroad have been notified that they must abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors while on or off duty. These notifications to employes of railroad companies are becoming more and more frequent, and bid fair soon to become the general rule, A pathetic story comes from Anniston. Alabama. Waited R. Nunnelee, one of the brightest yftpng journalists in Alabama and a member of one of the finest families of the State, is now a maniac. Cigarette smoking is the cause. Prominent physician have examined him and pronounce the case incurable. Young Nunnonlee has been on several of the leading papers of the State and was a talentea fellow. A London telegram states that Gen. Booth, of the Salvation Army, has just issusd a most stringent edict against smoking, in which he denounces the habit as wasteful, dirty, injurious and entirely inexcusable. Henceforth no member of the army who smokes shall receive any promotion, and sergeants, bandsmen, sergeant-majors, secretaries and treasurers must abandon the practice or cease to hold office in the corps. - 1