The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-04
OTES AND COMMENTS.

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| connection.
RUSSIAN Jews are hocking into the
rural sections of Connecticut in great
| numbers. There are already several
| large colonies in the central and northern
| portions of the State. The chief crops
| of the Jews are onions and potatoes.
The Swiss Government proposes to as
sumo proprietorship of the manufacture
of matches, the plan being to purchase
| the various works now i'll operation. III
is estimated that this will cost upwards OF
| 5000, 600, and the Government expects 10
make an annual profit of about Sl23,ooo
on the business.
A LOVER of the curious in numbers has
fpured out some interesting facts CON
corning the city of Berlin. The city has
2lO miles of streets, SO that person
might walk ten days in the German
capital without going up or down the
csamc street twice. If the 100000 IN
/ habitants were to turn out at u grand
review and march in double file, they
| would form line $50 miles in length,
column long enough to reach nearly en-
tirely across France. If the citizens
should all determine to start on q journey
on the same day and at the same time,
all the ears in Germany would accommo-
date but two-thirds of their number. IT
formed in q single file, each with his
hand on the others shoulder, the column
would be nearly 1000 miles long. Ii
separated until only within speaking dis
{ 81, h., he
u human telegraph line long enough to
reach from Berlin to Calcutta, India.
DR.. JAsrRow, in paper in The New
Review, records some experiments he
has been making with various individuals
in order to discover what words and ideas
are the most common. He set twenty
five men and twenty five women TO write
down as quickly as possible the first
hundred words which came into their
minds. Out of these 5000 words he
finds 1924 different, some of the words
being commonly used many times in the
fifty lists of words. He finds also that
women are more inclined than men to
use the same words as one another. and
that their ideas, MS we might perhaps,
naturally suppose, run greatly on az
ticles Of dress.
TIE Japanese exhibit at the Chicago
Fair will be both attractive and instruc-
tive 1t is to consist of works of art
and mechanism, flowers and frnits, table
dainties, domestic and personal orna-
ments, living pigs, horses, fowls, aero
bats and wrestlers, besides other things
too numerous to mention and too marvel
Gus to be described. The japanese are
always striving to introduce their pro-
ducts into foreign countries, and are
proverbially expert in commercial trans
actions.
A LOCAL paper says that the spruce
gum season is on in Maine and business
is booming. One firm received "a barrels,
about 2! tons, of gum in one day, and it
will have 125 barrels, or 10000 pounds,
before the close of the season. The first
Grade of gum is clean and clear and
ready for chewing. 1t sells at wholesale
at 60 cents to 81 pound. The dark
colored gum, mixed with bark and pitch,
is worth from 6 to Is cents pound, and
is purchased by refiners, who boil it,
skim off the dirt, add some other things
and produce many varieties OF spruce
gum.
IF it be true, as stated, that all the
available wheat lands of the United
States have been taken up, and that we
have reached the maximum OF produc-
ton, and if it be true that the popula-
ton of the United States is increasing at
the rate of per cent. every ten years,
as is also authoritatiyely stated, then it
must be evident that we are nearing
time when the country will consume all
its own wheat ploduct and have none for
expectation. These facts stare us i'll the
face and promise to enhance the value OF
everything produced from the soil.
The Meteorological Department of the
Indian government has recently pub
Iished the results Of an inquiry into the
nature and course of storms in the Ara
bian Sea. These researches apparently
show that the cyclones are formed on the
northern limits of the southwest mon
soon. When the northern limits OF the
monsoon reach tho land, and when the
northeast monsoon extends from Asia TO
the equator, no great storm is generated
in the Arabian Sea. The results of this
inquiry are important in showing that
the real cause of the cyclones is to be
sought in the conflict of the regular
southwest monsoon current with the OPP
posing northorly currents moving from
the Asiatic continent toward the Equa-
tor. According to the prevailing theory,
cyclones are generated where there are
great vertical differences of temperature,
giving rise to ascending currents. There
are, however, no evidences of the exis-
tence of such conditions in the Arabian
Sea at the periods of the maximumstorm-
mess.
NEXT to the United States, the country
to which there is the largest immigration
of Europeans in these times is Brazil.
Notwithstanding all the disturbances of
the past year in Brazil, ship-loads of
Storage passengers have, according to
the New York Sun, been put ashore
every week at Bahia, Rio and other ports
on the eastern seaboard We judge by
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