Sentenced to Church-going : A New Funi.sbment for Drunks.—An experiment that, Jias for its pnrjjo.se the reformation of men convicted of drunkenness is bein:j tried by the. mayor of East Liverpool, Ohio, who compels tlicm to make a daily report, to him or hie officers, and also to attend dmreh services on Sunday. Refusal reunite in. the carrying out of t.he gaol or workliouM) sentence imposed. An instance of .sardonic humor on the part of the Portuguese iLVolutionaries is related in the Paris 'Figaro.' This newspaper is .=ent daily to every Sovereign in Europe, but the last two "copies sent to King Mnnotl at the Real Palacio das Necefisidride:--, Lisbon, and to the QueenDowager Maria Pia, at the Palais d'Ajuda, have ju.-t been returned to the offices in Paris. Across the wrappers is stamped in Portugue.-o the simple ui.strijii.ion: "Gone away —no address.' When Joseph Mitchell and Einiiy Mitchell were charged at Grays with neglectiiig their children, Dr Emlyn Jor.es, medical inspector ot /-rhooLs, said that i've of the youngsters "had their clothes a-.-tu-ally sown on. thein, aiipareaiJy for Lh& winter."
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Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 6
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