Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-10-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


is said to be gallium, quoted at 90, $50
an ounce. And yet the average man finds
that gold is good enough for him, modest
ly remarking, Let me have the gold Of
the country and ! care not who bags the
gallium."
A YOUNG women who pays taxes in
Parsons, Kan, demands the right to pas
turc her cowsin the school house grounds
because she never had any children to
send to school. my cows arc my chill
drcn,' she says, with the dignity of a
Roman matron.
PROBABLY the most unique strike on
record il that of the Bombay BARRIERS
against the shaving of widowa' heads.
They say the practice is not enjoined in
the Hindoo Scriptures. and they will be
blamed if they do anything contrary to
Scripture. AT least that is the purport
of their declaration. Any barber who
shaycs widows head is fined and boy
cotted.
THHRE are Q, 500 women physicians in
the United States who hold diplomas
from either American or foreign schools.
The most promising field for women
who has talent for surgery seems to be
that of treating the eye. There are no
really eminent female oculists and it is q
profession requiring the delicacy of
manipulation that belongs to wcmen's
fingers.
The last Of the Wyandotte Indians is
dead, aud the books Of a once powerful
k.s1 &c sod ao1<, sad
How long will it be before the last tribe
Of Indians upon the continent shall have
ceased to exist, as a tribe, and there will
be grown men to whom the bloody story
of the conflict between the red and white
races will be merely matter of historya
Civilization, with its steaming locomotive
rushing across the fenced-in prairies that
were once his hunting grounds, is as
fatal to the Indian as to the bison.
THE government of Belgium has insti-
tuted system of instruction in agri
culture and forestry in the army. 1t is
intended to reach only such soldiers as
are the sons of farmers and who expect
to return to the farm at the expiration of
their respective terms of enlistment. The
scheme embraces the purchase of land
near the principal garrison towns for ex-
perimental and practical purposes. Here
the labors of the soldiers are expected to
not only familiarize them with farming,
but also to produce crops, and thus assist
to bear the burdens of the army.
THE French aeronaut, Besancon, and
the astronomer Hermite, propose to make
a balloon expedition to the north pole,
starting from Spitzenbergen. They will
build a balloon lined with silk, thirty
metres in diameter, and having cubic
capacity of l,412 metres 1t will be filed
with pure hydrogen gas, and tho car
will be constructed on novel plan,
being especially adapted for Arctic ex-
ploration. 1t is estimated that the pro
posed journey will occupy four OF five
days. 1t will be begun at Spitzen.
bergen, and it's hoped that it will end
happily in North America or on the icy
shores of northern Asia.
ACCORDING to a writer in the New
York Epoch, it is moderate estimate tc
put the amount of money spent every
year by the American people on horse
racing at $50, 900, 900. The emount in
vested in stock farms and horses thereon
was carefully computed not long ago and
the estimate submitted to some of the
best-informed horsemen in the country
and confirmed by them. the figures given
were 90, O00, 900. The race track property
owned by the various associations is, at d
moderate estimate, worth so, 600, 900 The
actual value of the horses in training is NOT
less than 800, O00. There is, therefore,
invested to-day, in what we may call the
plant" of horse racing, not less than
$40, 500, 900. 1t may not be out of place
to add right here that every racing asso-
citation pays adividend of at least 20 per
cent. to its stockholders.
ALTHOUGH Lord Tennyson, who re-
Gently celebrated his eightieth birthday,
is still hale and hearty; yet the London
press is already engaged in discussing the
rival merits Of the various candidates for
the post of Poet Laureate to the Queen,
which will become vacant at his death.
Tennyson himself has nominated "Owep
Meredith, better known as Lord Lytton.
as his successor The Earl is at present
Ambassador to France, and was formerly
Viceroy of India. The Queen favors the
Earl OF hOssiyn, OF whom but few out
side court circles have ever heard men,
toned as poet. The Prime Minister,
Lord Salisbury, supports the claims OF
Alfred Austin, who is frequent visi-
tor at Hatfield House, and the Prince
Of Wales is supposed rightly or wrongly
to favor William Morris. Swinbume is
considered to have put himself out of
running by his recent ode commencing
the plots to assassinate the Gar.
SAYS trained observer who has lately
been in the western part OF Pennsyi-
vania Zone of the remarkable results
Of the new general use Of natural gas as
substitute for coal in producing Steam
IN mills, foundries and manufactures in
and about Pitt burg is the favorable
| effect upon the vegetation in the CITY
and neighborhood, now quite noticeable.
Everywhere one sees the past influence
81 the sulphur, poisonous gases and CRIME
Of the coal upon the trees and shrubs Of
any maturity. They are stunted and
unhealthy and often imperfectly devel-
oped many have died, and it has been
hard work for others to survive. The
fronts Of stores and dwellings are taking
on more cheerful hue as the rain and