Temperance Notes

Dean Farrar, addressing 600 noldiera on the eve of their departure for India, etrongly nrged them first of all to abstain from alcoholic beverages. The liquor dealer in Rnssia is described as a lawbreaker, a nsurer and a promoter of drunkenness. No doubt can be entertained as to the fldelity of the de6cription. Four professors of physiology in Switzerland have indorsed the view that alcoholio drinks are not in any way to be classed with foods. Sales of New England ram in África have decreased one-half in two years. The Scottish Eeformer aska, "Is this a oase of waking conscience in New England or of the slaughter of the innooenta In África?"