United States, former intemperance in, 204, 206. intoxicating drinks of, 205. slang-mixtures of, 205, 213. drinking at bars in, 205, 212, 213. early temperance societies of, 205. property of habitual drunkards in, how formerly dealt with, 205, 206. effects of former drunkenness in, 206. corruption by drink of Red Indians in, 207. energy of the, in suppressing intemperance, 208. first prohibitory law in, 208. drunkenness in remote States of, 209, 218. sobriety in New England States of, 209. comparative sobriety in large towns of, 209, 214. evidences of drunkenness in large towns of, 209. temperance unions in the, 220. evidences of intemperance in, 219. drunkenness in, not coupled with crime to the same extent as in England, 210-211. proposal to grant drawbacks on spirits exported from, 210-211. absence of alcoholic liquors from dinner tables in hotels of, 212. chief drinking, by foreigners in, 212. spirit drinking in, 213. passion for advertising in, 213. character and estimate of drinkers in, 215. drink sellers in, 215, 222, 223. absence of drunkards in the streets in, 215. liquor laws of, 216-218. partial failure of prohibitory laws and repeal in certain places in, 219-223. advantageous results of liquor legislation in, 224-226. inebriate asylums in, 227. Upas tree, the, of Marylebone Lane, by James Smith, 165. V _Varuna_, the god, appealed to, to forgive drunkenness, 40. Vermont, failure or prohibitory law in, 217. Vines, supposed discovery of, by Bacchus, 12. in Egypt, 12. planting of, by Noah, 12. traces of, in Swiss lake dwellings of Stone Period, 14. of ancient Egypt, 73. absence of, in Egypt, alleged by Herodotus, 73. culture of, described by Pliny, 89. statue formed of trunk of, 89. temple supported by columns, consisting of trunks of, 89. various kinds of, in Greece and Rome, 89. first planted in Western Europe, 104. first introduced into the United States, 205. Virginia City (Nevada), Artemus Ward’s account of, 218. Sir C. Dilke’s account of, 218. W Wallace, Alfred R., on drunkenness in the Malay Archipelago, 5. Wages, high, influence intemperance, 189. Ward, Artemus, on “treating” in Virginia City (Nevada), 218. Waves of intemperance, 258-260. Westminster, the Duke of, on temperance, 244. Wilding, S. P., on drinking habits in the States of the Plate, 202, 203. Wilkinson on ancient Egyptian monuments, 73.