St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-09-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

ACCORDING to the census bulletin on
cotton the largest cotton producing
county east of the Mississippi river is
Washington Miss. Its production in
1890 was 81 .O23 bales. Bolivar county,
Miss, comes n.xt, with r, 9O2 babes.
THE total amount of money in the
United States is 81, 665, 800, 900, or per
capita circulation of $50. 62. The total
is divided into SGS7, 600, 900 in gold,
1856, 600, 900, in silver and S422, 800, 600
in uncovered notes. The per capita
| division is SlO.57 in gold, So. 50 In silver
and So so In paper.
Ar the recent opening Of the American
| Institute Of Homeopathy at Washington,
D. C., the President boosted that Of the
81, 1914 patients treated during the year
| in the ~ hospitals of the United States
controlled 10y that school Of medicine,
! 81, 1874 recovered. The death rate was
but 3.31 per cent, which he maintains
was wonderful showing.
A SINGULAR occupation is that of hoy
Hoe San Francisco Chinanan, who
has contract with the various Chinese
companies (according to the Portland
Orcgonian) to collect the bones OF China
men who have died in the United States
and ship them to China for final burial.
Moy Hoe has visited all the principal
cities Of the country on this mission, and
has even followed the lines of railroad
and penetrated mining where his
countrymen have been employed. He
SAYS that his agents have gathered the
bones of many hundreds of dead, Which
have been restored to Chinese soil. In
Tacoma alone he found the friends of
thirty of the deceased DESTROYS of sending
their remains home.
THE Georgia fruit crop is big thing
this year, and everybody is interested in
knowing what the growers will make out
of it. In the peach and grape crops
alone, conservative estimates reported by
the Fort Valley (Ga.) Leader, show that
about 500 carloads of peaches and 100
carloads of grapes will leave the State
for foreign markets during the present
season. The estimated receipts for the
peach and grape crops combined are
$3.50; 600. Reports show that the peaches
are we'll formed, of good size, and per
fcctly sound, and this, together with the
decrease in yield from last year, makes
good prices and ready sales an assured
fact. Other important fruit crops will
largely swell the total sales.
WH1TELAw REID is the third news
paper man nominated by the Republican
Party for the Vice Presidency. The first
was Schuyler Colfax, who was first a re-
porter on an Indianapolis sheet, and then
for many years the owner and editor of
the leading Republican paper at South
Bend, Ind While in Congress he was
the Washington correspondent of his
paper up to the time of his nomination
for the Vice Presidency, in 1868, aud
after hi term expired, in 1873, he was
offered the editorial chair now filled by
Whitelaw Reid Henry Wilson had been
for several years editor of the Boston
Republican, before his election to the
place, and was always frequent contri
hutor of political articles to the Reptlb
ican press.
AFTER much exhaustive and conscien
tious figuring a scientific man has dis
covered that the influence Of waves and
storms upon the earth is so destructive
and remorsecss that in about six million
years the entire surface of the earth will
be covered with water II he thinks
this sort Of yarn is going to scare anyone
he is very much mistaken. Long before
that time there will have been SO many
improvements in the construction Of
Yachts and households that everyone
would rather live atloat than ashore.
Still better, the fishing season will then
last all the year round, and there will be
so many men in the business that the
highly picturesque industry of manu-
featuring 'fish- Stories will be driven
by ruinous competition to place among
the lost arts.
THE Century says that "among the
most important acts of Congress touch
ing the welfare of the farmer are those
which provide for the establishment of
institutions of learning which are to give
special attention to agriculture and the
sciences related to it; for the mainten-
ance of agricultural experiment stations
which are devoted to the scientific in
vestigation of agricultural problems; and
for the elevation of the United States
Department of Agriculture to a cabinet
department. These three educational
agencies, the colleges, the stations, and
the Department, are the most important
ones now at work for the betterment Of
agricultural matters, for nothing can
benefit the farmer so much as a know
ledge of the best methods of farming for
the region in which he may live
An American from Boston has reached
Paris on voyage around the world per
sonally conducted' by himself under en-
tircly novel circumstances. His avowcd
object is to complete the whole trip with
out the expenditure of any money what
ever, and, according to his own statement,
he has already crossed the ocean and
visited England and Germany in accord
ance with the conditions of his self-im-
posed task, which also contains the
stipulation that he must do no work on
the voyage Needless to say that our
travellers rather unusual methods do not
meet with the approval of all the hotel
keepers whom he honors with his custom,
and in Berlin he underwent one months
Imprisonment for failing to pay his bill
The only wonder is that this unusual
kind of traveller does not spend most of
his time in Jail, but, needless to say, he
is gifted with an unlimited supply of
what may be best described as 'self-con-
fidence,' and is a past master in the pc
culiarly American art of "butfing" AS
he himself puts it, "If can only make
, man laurh I'1va oct him =, and car4,i,Iv