Temperance Column.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 48, 24 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

Temperance Column.

♦ [The matter for this Column is supplied by a representative of the local Temperance bodies, who alone is responsible for the opinions expressed in it.} INTEMPERANCE AMONG PHYSICIANS. From a supplement to the thirty-eighth detailed annual report o^f the Registrargeneral for Scotland some interesting facts may be culled with regard to the deathrate in different occupations. In the tables of the comparative mortality figures, the mean being placed at 1000, the hotelkeepers, innkeepers, and publicans head the list with the enormous comparative mortality of 2308, while woollen cloth operatives come last with only 286. The numbers, it should be explained", refer to the deaths between twenty-five and aiitysve years of age for the years 1890, 1891, 1892. Medical praofdtionew come eighteenth on the list, with the figure 1109. The point, however, which we particularly wish to draw attention to is, that while twelre deaths from intemperance in every 1000 in seventy-three selected occupations, comprising a total of 36,201 deaths in all, is the mean rate for Scotland, the medical practitioners come fourth with thirty-five per 1000. They are only beaten by the publicans, with 169 ; the hairdressers, with 78 ; and the bntohers, with 36 per 1000. Hotel servants, hawkers, plasterers, and law clerks ooma a short way behind them. On the other hand, deaths from diseases of the liver, whioh are often dependent on alcoholism, fall below the mean among physicians, but rise largely above the mean in lawyers, and in several other occupations, whose deaths from simple intemperance are few. It has, of course, lone been known that the profession of medicine leads to many risks, bnt it is rather startling to find that a doctor runs a greater risk of not living to be a good old age than a coal miner, and that he is more given to alcoholism in an aggravated form than cabmen, grooms, or even hotel servants. — Medical Press. " AN AMERICAN BISHOP'S BEER , SHOP. A well-known English Bishop once said that one of his ambitions was to run a publichouse. This ambition has been realised in Chicago, the city of novel experiments. Anyone who walks down Washingtonstreet and turns down the narrow staircase of No. ISS, will find himself in the Home Salon, standing in front of a bar, behind whioh the Right Rev. Samuel Fallows, DJ3., Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, works the beer-engine from Monday morning to Saturday night. It is a curious sight, and during the few weeks for which the Home Salon has been opened thousands of Chicago .business men have passed down the narrow staircase .to.the • stuffy basement to enjoy the .sensation Of ! ordering a pint of beer from a Bishop. But though the Bishop is real enough, the beer is not. For the idea of Bishop Fallows is to prevent people, drinking beer i by providing them with something that is ' not beer, yet tastes exactly like- it; and so, . with the aid of a Gorman chemist, he has ' bit upon a concoction whioh he calls "T>eere,tte," and whioh is said to resemble beer a great deal more than flannelette resembles flannel. Nor has it any of the unpteasant effects, both phy/rical and moral, which .follow alcoholic- excess. For five > cents 'at' the Home' Salon you can' have' a ' glass of "beerette,">uwell as a good many ' other non-intoxicating drinks. And for ten cents you can get a good square meal of meat, beans, potatoes, bread and butter, ' and hot or cold drinks. . -Of cours* the popularity of. the Bishop ' has played havoc with the neighbouring - saloons, whioh cannot offer the attraction I .of an Episoopal barman. The brewers | have even compelled the local coopers to , refuse to supply the Bishop with kegs. But the Bishop sticks' {o his post, and w think- ' fag of starting other Baloons. ' JUDGEB' HOBBIES. j ♦ ] Moßt of the English Judges have 1 a pet recreation. The ex-Lord Chan- ' cellor Halsbury's hobby is sword 1 exeroise ; Mr. Justice Fry's is botany ; \ Mr. Justice Hawkins' is watching i horse races and dogs ; Mr. Justice ] Grantham's is the cricket field ; Mr. \ Justice Vaughan Williams' dairy- c farming; Mr. Justice North's 1 entomology; Mr. Justice Wills' ( mountaineering ; Mr. Justice Chitty's a driving tandem; and Mr. Justice t Eomer's training carrier pigeons. r ■• a Even in a violent storm waves 55ft high * are rare, and those of 40ft are exceptional. With an ordinary breeze, the height 'of I wave* is from 4ft to 6ft. I o A gentleman who recently diedin London I si «t the age of seventy had been a smoker I a stnoe he was seventeen. ~ During that time loi he kept a diary, in which he recorded that I o: he had smoked 328,713 cigar*, 43,639 of I « r hloh > ™»re gift*. Those he paid for cost Itl tarn 44170. I],