The free press., 1894-02-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

that there were twenty-eight deaths
and 10f players badly injured.
THERE are %, $50 negro schoolsnow
in the South. where 2,250, 900 negroes
have learned to read and most of them
TO write. In the colored schools are
23S, 900 pupils and 20, 600 negro teach
ers. There are $50 schools for ad-
yanced education and seven colleges
administered by negro presidents and
faculties.
MINISTER LEPINE, of the Paris
police. has requested the newspapers
to refrain from publishing pictures of
Anarchists. His theory is that vanity
is a very powerful motive in the An
archist mind, and he hopes that their
activity may be quieted to some ex-
tent when they find that their por-
traits are not published.
A COLONY to be operated on strictly
Communistic principles has been or
ganized in Vienna. 1t is to include
Americans, Englishmen and Ger
mans, and will settle on lands in the
Kenia district of British East Africa,
about 250 miles above the mouth of
the Tena River. The colony will in
clude some well-known Anarchists
and Socialists of Austria.
THE reclamation of the arid wastes
of Southwestern desert lands proceeds
marvellously apace. Another recla-
nation company was incorporated at
San Bernardino, Cal, few days ago,
with capital stock of 81, 800, 600.
A dam is to be erected at Victor Mar
rows, on the Mojave River, in San
Bernardino County, $50 feet in height,
which will make a lake nine miles
long and about three wide, whose
waters will be used to irrigate about
10000 acres Of land on the MoJave
desert, which will then be especially
adapted for growing raisin grapes and
alfalfa.
THE Sultan of Turkey has lost none
of the attributes additionally asso-
ciated with the position he occupies.
There is a general idea that every
Sultan is fac-simile of his predeces-
sor, and each in his turn spends his
life on a cushion smoking, or arrang-
ing the affairs Of his harem. Abdul
Hamid does not live up to these
ideals. He is addicted to carpentering
and makes some of his own furniture.
He is reported as taking no interest
in his many better halves, and as
devoting much attention to such sani-
tary arrangements as may prevent an
epidemic of cholera.
THE Fall River cotton mill corpora
tions do not appear to have been suf-
fering greatly from the hard times OF
1898. The annual statement of thirty
four corporations, owning tifty-siX
mills, shows that they have paid in
dividends during the year 81 ,622, 800,
which is an average of Z $40 per cent.
on capitalized stock of $50, ,37S, 900.
One mill paid dividend Of 20 per
cent, and several made from 10 to
-. The workpeople in these mills
felt the pinch, however, for there was
reduction OF wages during the year
of from 8 to Is 2-3 per cent, and
there were shut-downs of from two
to nine weeks.
ENGLAND has a national union for
the technical education of women in
domestic science, whose purpose is
the training of teachers in the three
most needed domestic branches
cookery, laundry work and household
sewing, with home dress cutting.
The association embraces many
schools, both in England and Scot
land where teachers are trained in
the economical methods of work
especially suited to the circumstances
of the working classes, as well as in
the cooking required by those of more
abundant means. Examinations of
high standard, both in theory and
practice, are rewarded with diplomas,
giving assurances of thorough train
ing of the pupils. This training in
cludes daily lessons of several hours
in length, lectures, with demonstra-
tions and actual practice in the sub
jects taught, and special courses are
provided in first aid to the injured
and nursing, in domestic economy
and sanitary science.
OUTSIDE the larger towns, public
road making in Arizona, where prai-
rie and mountain trails are the only
wagon routes, has not advanced be-
yond the wheel tracks of primitive
times. For the most part little
shovelling is the only work that has
been done, and that only at the cross
ings of gullies and where the trail lies
through canons. In the outskirts of
towns irrigating bitches frequently
cross the road, and their overhows
and washouts, which occur more or
less frequently, may cut dangerous
gullies in the highway or conceal it
in wide shallow lake. Wooden
bridges and culyerts have been tried
on much-travelled trails, but they are
apt to disappear, as the native Mexi-
can population regard them as provi-
Dental gifts to remove for their own
private purposes. Where the road
cly ;rt = +ba aIOa Of o11Iliac roipc op1