average thirty pints of beer a week. So I thought I will see how much he has drunk altogether in the time; and also what it has cost him, supposing he had bought it at the lowest retail price-4d. per quart. In the first place I find he has drunk 62,400 pints, or 31,200 quarts, or 144 hogsheads 24 gallons. This would fill ordinary pint bottles enough, if put side by side, to reach a distance of three and a half miles. It would enclose a circle whose diameter would be over one mile. It would weigh nearly 35 tons and would take thirty powerful horses to draw it. It has cost the sum of £520. Had the amount been invested at the low interest of 2 per cent, and the interest allowed to lie with the principal the sum of £871 would have accumulated, which if invested at 5 per cent. would yield a weekly income of 163. 9d. Mr. T. Fry, M.P., speaking at a Temperance meeting the other day, said that from inquiries he had made, he had found that out of 600 children in a certain industrial school not one belonged to teetotal parents. This does not surprise us, Mr. Fry, it is just what we should have expected. Men who keep from the drink do not need to throw their children on society to be brought up. They can bring them up themselves. The Drink Bill of our country amounts to £400,000 daily. The Education Bill, taking in science and art, amounts to £13,296 daily. Who will dispute that we are a highly civilised people after this? A letter from Dongola says:-"There is one remarkable fact which I cannot refrain from mentioning, that is the almost entire absence of strong drink, in all forms and shapes, from the present expedition. It cannot be purchased at the towns up the Nile south of Wady Halfa, for the natives are prohibited from selling any to our men." 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