Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-04-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


paratus, by which means more than 5000
acres of land are now irrigated and fer
tilted. The cleansing of great cities by
this method is eminently practical, as
well as beneficial from sanitary point
of view.
THE recent civil war in Chill cost the
victors, the Congressional party, SIS, 000.-
700, according to u recent estimate made
by the Gillian newspapers. OF that
amount $SS5,OO0 was contributed by
Sonora Dona Juana Edwards, the mother
of Don Augustin Edwards, Minister of
Finance, from her private fortune. The
cost of the war to the Balmaceda par
tsans has not been figured out, perhaps
because they lost everything, and it is a
big thing to estimate on.
PARIS is given to fads The latest craze
is suicide of old people. No less than
fourteen men, one of whom had reached
the ripe age of Sc, ended their lives on
Sunday. The cause of this epidemic of
self-destruction ought to furnish a good
study for the philosor hers. The suicides
show that some strong motive has over
come the ruling passion which makes
when it has lost all its attractions.
Mr.. LIrTLEDArE, who has just been
travelling through the Pamir country of
Central Asia which figures largely in
Russo British politics just now, says that
it is one of the most desolate regions i'm
aginable. The mountains are high and
wild, robed in eternal SHOWS, while below
the mountains, instead of verdant fields
and forests, isa picture of utter 'desola-
ton that would be hard to match in any
other part of the world. The country at
the base of the mountains is SO high
above the sea that vegetation is very
scanty, and the plains are most forbidd-
ing in aspect.
A WEST Virginia genius has invented
flying machine, of which he expects
great things. He mas taken the motions
OF the hawk as a model, and constructed
an apparatus of wings which he puts on
like suit. 1t is manipulated by the
muscles OF the arms and legs But after
all ne does no. fly, although he expects
to. do so with practice He jumps off
building, or if there is good wind rises
from the ground, and throwing out the
wings, which are very large and very
light, floats in the air. With fresh
breeze he even reaches considerable
height, always alighting safely. The
name of this sanguine scientist is Ber-
nard Cressler, and he is monomaniac
on the subject of flying machines.
The Pennsylvania State Fish Commits
sion is building swell car which is to
be used in the distribution of young fish
throughout the State. The old style was
box-car fitted with ordinary tanks; the
new car will be an elaborate affair cost
ing $4,000. 1t will be provided with the
most improved tanks for the preserving
OF tlsh and spawn, and with machinery
for the pumping and aerating of the
water. The process of Matching will be
carried on while the car goes from place
to place. The Commission expects to
do great things this summer 1t has in
store and undergoing development at the
Cory and Allentown hatcheries upwards
of 100000 eggs of Kennebec salmon.
The young fish are to be placed in the
Delaware River, some forty miles above
the Water Gap, early in May. 1t is
also proposed to stock the Schuylkill
with bass and pike.
CHICAGO has "Woman's Canning
and Preserving Company" with CAPT.
tai OF 81 100000. The stock can be sold
only to women, and there are stock
holders all over America and even in
far away Japan and Africa The COM
pany employs only one lonely man, who
oversees seventy-tive women at work in
the factory. A long search was made
for woman to fill this position, but
none had the technical knowledge neces-
sary. Six thousand cans of fruit a day
are turned out. Last week the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Mrs. Anna Byford
Leonard; Vice President and General
Manager, Miss Amanda t. Jones Second
Vice-President, Mary Allen West; Treas-
urer, Mrs. Eva NJ Miller; Secretary,
Mrs. Sherwin Mum; Assistant Score
tary, Mrs. W. K. Omohundro; Auditor,
Mrs. Francis Conant.
PROFESSOR HARDNESS of the Academy
OF Sciences at San Francisco is irving to
cross our domestic cattle with the Amer
lean bison. He has gathered small
band of buffaloes from the Yards Of
private owners in Montana and Nevada.
and believes that in the mild and salu-
brious climate of the coast his expert
ments are likely to prove more success
tul than similar experiments in Ne
braska. What he aims at is we'll
defined race of animals corresponding to
the mule in the equine species. But the
cross in the case of the buffalo and the
common COW does not result in a non
productive animal, it is said, and for that
reason race that will perpetuate at
least some of the peculiar characteristics
OF the rapidly dying-out bison may be-
come. well established in the animal
kingdom.
WHEN the Mississippi Valley lumber
men visited the State of Washingt ton re-
Gently, their eyes were opened. They
had never seen or dreamed of such a rich
and seemingly inexhaustible supply Of
timber as the Puget Sound country
affords. One of the visitors said that he
would like to have the weste of any Of
The mills along the shore. He thought
that the waste at one of them must amount
to 10000 feet dav. The ,r,tar;.t IL