The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-11-08
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

"StNN q
is strong, stout and symmetrical, situ-
ated centrally between the hips, SO
that the child when standing erect on
his foot is perfectly balanced.
Ellwood Cooper, of Santa Barbara,
the leading olive grower of California,
says he has trees eight years old that
have produced 1000 gallons of olives
to the acre. This would be equivalent
to $50 gallons of oil to the acre, and
the oil finds a ready market at S.
a gallon. The yield of n acre would
thus be $3.50, which for Il l00-acre
ranch would be a pretty fair income.
But these figures are not represented
to apply to any except the very
choicest trees, and an %uncommonly good
year. But even computing profits of
olive culture at as low a figure as one
tenth, a twcnty-acre ranch would sup
port a family very comfortably after
six or seven years of waiting.
Half Of a life Of sixty years spent
in the Eastern ~penitentiary at Phila-
dclphia by Jack Canter, n of the
most expert forgcrs in the country,
has come to an end. Having brushed
his thin gray hair and his mustache,
he called for his shoes and broadcloth
suit. The insatiate moth, however,
had riddled the overgaiters and Toasted
royalty on the garments. He had to
buy a new outfit, which he was well
able to do, as he had a credit of several
thousand dollars with the warden.
When the new clothes and carriage
came he shook hands with the gate
keepers, stepped into the carriage and
drove away to a prominent hotel.
Some say he has $4,000, and some say
more, with which to sustain his new
station as a private gentleman. He is
well educated, writes and speaks
several languages, and has travelled a.
great deal and mingled in good society.
The United States eXpend $94,000,-
900 a year upon education. The
figures from all the States and Terri
tories have been collated from official
sources by the bureau of education at
Washington, and various other inter-
esting items are included in the great
statement. In 244 cities, each with
more than $50: inhabitants, there is
a school population of 2,661,49S, with
an average daily attendance of 1,lO5,-
1853, and an aggregate annual eNpend-
iture of more than $25,000,OOO. The
city of New York heads the list, with
$3.50 children of school age, of
whom 270,176 are enrolled in l27
schools; the annual expenditure being
in round numbers $3,400,000. There
are in the different States 220 normal
schools, 1872 business colleges, 232
kindcrgartens, 227 colleges in which
women are received, SO scientific
schools, l42 schools of theology and
120 medical colleges and schools.
The international Fisheries exhibit
ton in England next year will be on a
grand scale. Mr.. Bigkbcck, NJ. p,
head of the executive committee, has
issued a report which informs us that
the imperial government of China has
applied for space, that Canada wants
10000 square feet, and that nearly all
countries have come in. There will
be prizes for models of fishing and
carrier boats; four money prizes,
offered by Ashmead Bartlett Burdett
Coutts for the best collection Of fishing
rods; a prize of 800, given by the
Baroness Burdett CouttS, for the best
plan of a fish market; and a prize of
$500 for the best model of a carrier
boat, the boat to be specially adapted
for preserving the lives of her crew.
The English government will strike
medals at the mint as rewards of
merit, will issue diplomas of honor,
and will probably make a grant of
public money toward the expenses Of
the exhibition.
The magnificent Yellowstone park
is in danger of being rapidly destroyed
and it's natural beauties defaced by
wantonness and vandalism, unless the
government steps in to protect it. 1t
is said that the first thing theforeigner
does after registering at the Brevoort
house is to start for the Yellowstone
Park and needlessly shoot down scores
of it's large game-deer, buffaloes,
bears, antelope and mountain sheep.
Nor are foreigners always the chief
sinners in this respect. Many of the
most famous Yellowstone geysers have
already been ruined by people who
amuse themselves by hurting immense
trunks of pine trees into them in order
to see the water force them hight in the
air. In many cases these logs have
stuck in the water %apertures, and have
completely stopped the spouting. In
Wyoming the people are taking steps
to put a stop to such vandalism, and
the wholesale slaughter of butfaloes
and other game by tourists.
The adulteration in drugs that is
said to be going on is Il matter OF
serious import, and the London Satuf-
day RerieW discusses it as follows:
" 1t is astonishing how little suspicious
even suspicious people are of thedrugs
they take when they are i'll. They are
quite alive to the prevalence of adult
teration in other trades, but they will
swallow medicines hastily fetched
from the nearest chemists without so
much as a misgiving that they are not
in all respects what they profess to be.
Yet in nothing is adulteration so easy
and SO profitable a in drugs. The
taste will some times do something
toward detecting it in articles of food
but in medicines the taste is almost
powerless. The patient classes the
remedies he is condemned to take
under the general heads of nauseous
and not nauseOus, and he does not care
to draw any finer distinctions. Gcnu-
inc drugs are often extremely costly.
so that the gains which can
be made by substituting other
substances for them may easily be
very large. Yet in no trade are the
effects of adulteration SO disastrous as
in that of the druggist. Adulteratcd
food or drink may sometimes provoke
disease, but adultcrated drugs are use
less to cure it. 1t is impossible to say
n how many cases deaths have been
spt Tn thr violence of the maladV or to
want of skill on the part of the doctor
which have really been caused by
worthless medicines. The doctor or
dercd the medicines he thought appr0-
pirate, and if actually administered
these remedies would probably have
been sufficient to check the course of
the disease. But what was admins
tered was not these remedies, but a
counterfeit of them, and, though the
patient did not detect the difference,
tie disease did, and the patient died.