uiuiu. improve me nerus yunave, by increasing them *in and weeding out the scrubs.MMport hasnutsshott w c iof nm scjust been i.v*ucd, and from it we , tiedlearn that their were 4,382,210! Byproof gallons ol spirits produced burrduring the year, an increase of a titbout a million and three quarters coaof gallons over 1895. Although!an increase in production is noted and there is a marked decrease in the Flatconsumption, the average being rubi62 gailiens per head, the lowestsince confederation. Quite an increase in the consumption of beerglasdipttheinoticed, however, the aver tge j IVIbeing 3S« gallons per head. The S staiconsumption o! wine has greatly usedecreased in the last two years, spoaverage m 1894 being 226 and of 1last year 212. There was 9,633- andOOO pound of tobacco used. Here ofquite a decrease is noted also, it -mod : fireamount os 6 F* lbs, for even* a hman over 20 years of age. 108 ar290,000 cigar* were smoked, an sinlt;average of 72 for each male adult crThe worst feature of the whole to* antbacco trade, the cigarette increased sailover 22,000.900, 22*664,000 have or been manufactured and sent on cabtheir ruinous way to deal deathand physical debility to the youth edthe country 1 jng