Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-04-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

exercise an nour Tor every pound OF food
we eat. One egg is worth a pound
of meat. Dyspepsia can be cured
by walking Every meal we miss is a
decided gain. A fast day helps us more
than feast day.
IHE use OF tobacco among women is on
the increase in France, and even in Lon
don it is not unusual to see lady produce
her silver or enamelled case in the draw
ing-room. Cigarettes are giving place
to cigars in Paris, and some fears are en-
tertalned of the smoking habit among
women becoming uncomfortable.
1HE United States government pays
the railroad companies from $21, 900, 900
to $24, 600, 900 per year for the transport
alton of the mails. The estimated cost
for the present year is $22, $50, 900. In
the past, however, the estimates have
fallen short of the actual cost from
81 500, 900 to 80, 900, 900.
RECENT statistics show that French
railways annually kill one person out of
each 2, 900, 900 carried, while in England
81 900, 600 are carried before one meets a
violent death in railway accident
French railways annually wound one
passenger out of each 500, 600 carried /;
English one in each $50, 900; Belgium,
one in each 1860, 600 and Prussia only
one In each 1900, 600
THE old University building on Wash
ington Square, New York, is of interest
to all students of telegraphy and phc-
Biography. 1t was here that Prof. Morse,
fifty four years ago, put into practical
operation the fest telegraph ever set up
in the world, and it was on the third
floor, in the north wing, that the wires
over which the first message was trans
mitted were raised. 1t was in this Uni
versity also that Prof. Draper succeeded
in fixing the first Photographic portrait
of the human countenance from life.
PRoF. Snow, of the Kansas State Uni.
versity, has discovered the existence of q
disease resembling cholera, peculiar to
the chinch bug, and which IS easily
propagated, and will doubtless eventu-
ally afford farmers complete relief from
the destruction of their crops by this
pest. During the last summer infected
bugs were let loose in bug-infested
field. The disease spread so rapidly and
was so fatal that the field was soon rid of
the pests. Many farmers have made APP
plication to the professor for carcasses of
the bugs which have died from the
cholera.
THE railway tunnel under the St. Clair
River, between Michigan and Canada,
was formed by driving an iron cylinder
into the earth under the river bed and
pushing it forward as fast as the excava-
waited earth could be removed. A three
mile tunnel has been constructed in
London on a similar plan, which is said
to have cost less and to have been finished
in less time than would have been re
quired by old methods. And now comes
a project to unite Newark and New York
by a tfteen-mile tunnel, in which cleo.
tricity is to be the sole motive power.
Tunnels will undoubtedly play a promi-
nent part in the systems of transportation
in all large cities.
The Oldest living graduate of the
West Point Military Academy is VIM.
G. Young, of Chicago Mr.. Young was
born at Youngstown, o., a city founded
by his father, November %, 1929. In
1918, he obtained an appointment as a
cadet and on completing his course of
study was commissioned lieutenant OF
artillery. He remained in active service
until 1896, when he resigned. There
after he devoted himself to civil engin
eering. In the railroad branch of that
profession he gained much repute. By
virtue of his seniority Mr.. Young is pres
ident of the West Point Alumni Despite
his great age he retains large measure
of physical and mental ability, and still
looks after the details of several i'm
portant enterprises with which he is
identified.
TITLED aliens, chiefly Englishmen, now
own in this country about 1000, 600
acres in large lots, to which may be
added the ownership by aliens of lesser
degree of many smaller parcels. Besides
this direct ownership, inquiry has devel-
oped the fact that European capitalists
have invested in land and other bonds
sums covering nearly 100, 900, 900 acres,
which are subject to foreclosure sales
The case was cited in the report of the
House Committee ON the Judiciary last
Summer accompanying the bill to pro-
hibit aliens from hereafter acquiring
lands in the United States of man liv-
ing in England, who owns and rents
80, 600 acres in Illinois, deriving there
from $500, 900 year. The land
commissioner himself, six years
ago, officially declared that ''the
time is near at hand when there will be
no public lands to invite settlement or to
afford the citizens of the country an OPP
portunity to secure cheap homes.
SINCE General Sherman's death the
question has been raised as to Washing
tons highest military rank. Some au
thorities assert that the rank of Genera
of the Army was held by the Father O
his Country, and others that ii was created
for General Grant. The truth is tina
during the Revolution, Washington helt
the rank of General and COMMANDMENT
chief" There were no lieutenant gen
erals in the Continental Army, an(
Washington's supreme command was no
questioned. He was emphatically Gen
eral and Commander in chief. In 1898
when the ''quasi-war" with France OPP
encd. Washington was commissioned