Intelligence in Rooks—See Enemies, Avoiding. INTELLIGENCE IN SOLDIERS The American Army is regarded as formidable because "its bayonets think." That they thought and acted to some purpose was shown in many exigencies of the Civil war, as the following, told by Gen. Carl Schurz: One of General Butler's staff-officers told me a little story which illustrates the character of our volunteer regiments. When our troops took possession of Annapolis, there was but one locomotive in the railroad shop, and that locomotive had been partly taken to pieces by the "rebel sympathizers" of the place, in order to make it unfit for use. A volunteer regiment was drawn up in line, and men who thought themselves able to repair a locomotive were called for. A dozen or more privates stept forward, and one of them exclaimed: "Why, that locomotive was built in my shop!" In a short time the locomotive was again in working order.
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Intelligence in Storks—See Family Offense in Storks. INTELLIGENCE OUTDOING IGNORANCE In Togoland there is a large tree which is worshiped by all the inhabitants as a god named Azago. He is the giver of children, and crops, and all blessings. No one is permitted to eat fresh yams until the priest of Azago announces that the god has partaken of them. A dreadful fatality will follow such a disobedience. One year a pupil in a mission school ate a yam before the appointed time, and his distracted parents looked for his death and for all calamities to come—but the boy prospered and grew fat, and none of his kindred died. The next year all the children of that mission school ate yams before permission was given by the priest of Azago, and none perished. The people wanted also to eat, but the priest warned them that the God of the mission schools was greater than Azago, so the mission children could eat yams with impunity, but not so the general populace. But from that time the power of the superstition declined, and recently when one of the priests died the elders decided to forsake Azago and serve the living, true God. (Text.)
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INTEMPERANCE Lilla N. Cushman furnished to the Chicago Sun a bit of verse for possible blackboard use on the wine glass:
There's danger in the glass! Beware lest it enslaves. They who have drained it find, alas! too often, early graves. It sparkles to allure, with its rich, ruby light; there is no antidote or cure, only its course to fight. It changes men to brutes; makes women bow their head; fills homes with anguish, want, disputes, and takes from children bread. Then dash the glass away, and from the serpent flee; drink pure, cold water day by day, and walk God's footstool free.
(Text.)
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"Will alcohol dissolve sugar?"
"It will," replied Old Soak; "it will dissolve gold and brick houses, and horses, and happiness, and love and everything else worth having." (Text.)—Houston Post.
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See Beer, Effect of; Drink, Drunkenness;
Evidence, Living; Inebriety, Incurable;
Side, Choosing the Right.
INTEMPERANCE IN OLD DAYS
When wooden ship-building was the staple
trade of the river Wear, in England,
says an English exchange, when an extra-sized
ship was launched all the day-schools
in the town got a holiday. It was on these
occasions that the ship-builders provided an unlimited supply of beer to all comers, and
it was a recognized rule of Wearside that
members of the churches or chapel were
privileged to get drunk without losing their
membership.
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In medieval times the farmers brewed good brown ale and took it to the churchyard in barrels, which were tapped on the spot. The neighbors then said to one another: "Come hither; there be a church-ale toward yonder." They paid for the beer, and the rector's churchwarden kept the tale of incoming moneys. Easter-ales, Whitsun-ales, church-ales, even bride-ales to help a penniless mar-
