Iuka reporter., 1890-09-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A sTATIST1C1AN writes. 'AJ every LICK
Of the clock somebody somewhere in the
world is dying. Deaths among the
whole human family average over sixty
minute. To man contemplating life |
insurance such a fact is apt to strike
home with startling force. Or viewed
in another light, it may shake his con-
fidence in the idea that long lifei is com
mon thing, to know that out of every
ono hundred men only six reach the age
Of sixty-five, and not moro than one in
five hundred lives to see his eighty fifth
year. Right in this connection comes the
interesting fact that there is enough life
insurance now in force in the regular
American companies to give every man,
woman and child in the entire world two
dollars apiece. The worlds population
is about /, 500, 900, 900, and the companies
in question carry over SO, 900, 600, 900 in
surance, only it happens to be on selected
lives, averaging 1000 each to one mil
lion policy holders. Facts like these
ought to be full of fructifying thought to
the insured and bestir them to help make
up the second million policy owners
WHEN the United States Supreme
Court rendered its now famous opinion
in the Iowa prohibition case, it announced
that liquor in original packages was be-
yond the reach of State control, BUTT did
not define an original package. The
phrase has just been judicially construed
by United States Judge Foster, at
Topeka, Kan. He holds that when
bottles of whiskey put up in pasteboard
covering are packed and shipped in a
wooden box, the original package is the
box and not the bottles Consequently,
while the agent is free under the decision
of the Supreme Court to sell the box with
its contents, he cannot, without becom-
ing liable to the State law, break the
packages and sell the liquor by the
bottle. That, in the opinion of the New
York Herald, seems to be logical
distinction, but it cannot suppress the
bottle traffic. To make original pack
ages of bottled liquors it is only necessary
to ship in bottles not packed in boxes,
cases or other coverings.
THE 83 industries which figure in the
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics Re
port for 1890 are carried on by 2S, 294
partners, of which 26, ,521 are males and
1,760 are females, Is being estates. The
percentage of female partnership is 6. 90.
In round numbers one out of sixteen
partners engaged in Bay State manufac-
turing and mechanical industries is a
woman. Her partnership is limited to 46
industries. The two industries in which
woman partnership exceeds 40 per cent
are clothing and hair work. OF the whole
| number of stockholders in the SO indus
tries of the State 80, 1888 are male and
11,572 are female, 426 corporations, trus-
| tees, etc. Thus it is seen that while
women are not numerous as partners they
are as stockholders. Perhaps the do.
mestic partnership suffices in most cases.
| In SO of the SO industries the male stock
holders predominant. In polishing and
| dresses--as might be expected the
woman stockholder is in the ascendency.
A COMPANY has been established in
New York City to guarantee depositors
in national, State and savings banks and
| trust companies against loss by reason of
| the suspension or failure of such institu-
tions in which those guaranteed may
have their deposits. In case of the sus-
| pension or failure of such an institution
IN which the party guaranteed has money
| on deposit, the company upon receiving
evidence of that fact and transfer of
the claim with power of attorney to col
lect, pays the full amount due the
guaranteed by the insolvent institution.
The rates are as follows: For any amount
not exceeding $780, 81 per year; for any
amount not exceeding $500, $3.50 per
| year; for any amount not exceeding
| 81, 900, $3.50 per year; and $3.50 for
every additional 81, 200 guaranteed. 1t
| is New Jersey institution and has been
incorporated less than year.
IT is the habit of naval officers to rep
resent carelessly that the common sailor
on United States ships is hapless
wretch, whose time is divided between
debauches ashore and the dungeon on
shipboard. When pinned down to the
facts, however, those officers who come
most closely in contact with Jack freely
admit that he has vastly improved within
the last twenty years. In earlier days
many an executive officer made it rule
to grant "libertyn to the sailors only once
In SIX months. On these occasions they
went ashore in droves, and most of them
came back in sorry plight to take their
punishment. Now scores of sailors get
as much liberty as the officers, and abuse
it no more than the latter. The sailor who
comes back from his outing ''drunk and
dirty" as the plain-spoken tar puts it, is
the exception rather than the rule.
IF the stories of missionaries be true
we may expect soon to hear of as ghastlv
horrors of starvation in Japan as were
reported from North China last wear.
The rice crop has been failure in MANY
parts of Japan, and as this is the sole
stay OF large part of the rural popula
ton the result is misery of which for
elgner can form little idea. The great
trouble in all Oriental countries is that
no arrangements are made to meet
famine, the people with full stomachs
having precious little sympathy with
those whose stomachs are empty. Then.
too, the japanese, like the Chinese, pre-
fer to see Europeans supply their starving
poor rather than to contribute from their
own abundance. Both races are firm
believers in the adagc that charity begins
and ends at home.
BY the wonderful discovery of an Italian
astronomer, Schiaparelli, it seems that
both Venus and Mercury turn but once