Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-04-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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1856, he has been able to sift out aver
ages which indicate the rather startling
circumstance that marriage in the United
States is becoming failure. That is, 1t
is steadily falling off, especially in the
cities. And not only this, but divorce IS
gaining as rapidly in popular favor as
marriage is decreasing, Professor Will
cox points out that, with the exception
of Japan, which has more divorces per
year than any other nationality, the
United States Is far ahead OF other
countries in this respect, and that OF the
Christian countries we are in the lead by
considerable majority 1t is also shown
that the age when young men and women
marry is gradually but surely advancing.
The average young man of to-day, who
lives in community where there Is no
especial pressure to become married Tin
some sections of the far West a man will
get married at almost any age if he can
find wife,, waits until he is twenty
seven years and about two months old
before he ventures into the field of matri-
mony This is an advance of just one
year over the average of 1871, and to him
who can appreciate the value of statistics
this will appear as a remarkable differ
ence, and one for which some distinct
cause may be found.
The experiment of telephone news
paper, so to speak, is being tried in the
city of Buda- Pesth in Hungary. A cen
trail exchange for the collection of news
on all topics usually treated by an ordin-
hoe FOL, 1.cho cd nd
from this point items of news, together
with editorial comments, are hourly sent
to regular subscribers over telephone
wire connecting with houses, stores,
offices, factories and hotels, as may be
7 desired. Stationary receiving tubes are
mounted so as to be on level with the
ear and each telephone instrument is
supplied with wooden tablet upon
which subscribers may jot down such
notes as they wish to make. The news
exchange is divided into two depart
ments. In the editorial rooms the matter
for transmission over the wires is col
lected by corps of reporters and writers
much as in an ordinary newspaper office.
Then the copy is sent to the distributing
office, where men with distinct and re-
sonant voices send it to the various sub
scribers over the telephone wire The
news is given in either German or Hun
garian tongue. The charge for the SER
vice is seventy-five cents per month.
From receiving news over the telephone
to listening at home to an inaugural adj
dress or Congressional debate or sermon,
! operas and lectures in distant cities
would caarT, npIv oborf cfon
THE process of retaining the Arizona
deserts goes on apace. During recent
years many irrigation projects have been
put on a working basis, and districts
varying from few thousands to hundreds
of thusands of acres are being rapidly
brought into agricultural and horti-
cultural use. The greatest project OF
this character yet undertaken was practi-
cally begun a few days ago, and plans
for one still greater are announced. For
the first, contracts have been placed in
volving an expenditure of more thar
So, 600, 900, for the construction of reser.
voirs and canals to utilize water from the
ella River in retaining 800, 900 acres oil
land, which will be first class fruit and
vine land. The dam will be one of the
largest in the country, and seventy-twc
miles of canals are to be constructed
The second project contemplates the
reclamation of 400, 900 acres of now aric
land, with water taken from the Rio
Verde, stored in three immense reser
voirs, and distributed in $50 miles Of
canals. The land and the canal routes
have been surveyed, and the So, 500, 0O(
necessary to undertake the work sub
scribed. Much of the land will max,
good orange growing land.
Secretary OF State, is the fifth member O
his family to bear the honorable name O.
Josiah. So great is the filial respect il
which this baptismal name is held tina
it used to be averred by the people O.
| Quincy, Mass, where reverence for tn,
towns namesake family has become
cult, that the present Mr.. Quincy wa
originally christened Josiah osiah Tn,
old historic home of the family at Quinc1
has long been one of the finest estates il
New England, embracing as it does.
beautiful piece of woodland lying on tn,
margin of the sea- That particular par
VI thC NCW GHSiduu COdst ~ ulOSJ at
tractive to the eye, for while sufficient,
stern and rock bound in winter, in sum
mer it smiles like an isle of Greece. AL
most adjoining the Quincy estate, anS
| perched on an elevation at the yer,
brink of the ocean, is the modern hous,
of John Quincy Adams, who also is on,
| of the tutelar divinities of the town.
A NUMBER of years ago horse thieves
were so troublesome in western New
| Jersey that an association of farmers anc
citizens was formed to run them down
and several arrests were made. The
organization proved to be so effective
| that it is maintained to this day al
though so quietly that even the thieve!
seldom know of it until they are nabbed
| An active committee of men called
seekers goes out on the trail when
ever robbery has been committed, and
information relative to the crime is spread
with surprising quickness. Occasionally
the thief, finding himself in danger, viii
abandon the horse, and sometimes-fol
thief is usually contemptible-wil
drive it into C quagmire to become hope
lessly begged, Or tie it to tree in tn,
woods to starve.
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