The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-09-13
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

"A French newspaper has been maxi
Ing census of the survivors of Napo-
Icons grand army, and finds that only
four are left-Jean Jacques Sabatier,
109; Victor Baillod and Jean Bousset,
101, and Joseph Rose, 100.
Miss Clara Barton has returned to
Washington from South Carolina. where
she has been since spring with other
agents of the Red Cross society, reliev-
ing the distress of the sufferers from
the floods on the sea islands.
oliver Wendell Holmes is spending
two hours day in writing the story of
his brilliant life - brilliant with
achievement and mirth. DR.. Holmca
was born two years before Edgar Allan
Poe, though he has survived him by
nearly half a century.
The recent reduction in price OF
aluminium has called renewed atten-
ton to the possibilities of the use of
aluminium-bronze castings for pur-
poses in which the strength of forged
steel without its liability to coIrosion
are essential. Its price should now be
not much above that of ordinary gun
bronze.
Every good cook is careful to dis
pose at once of the water in which
meat has been washed. Only a very
few hours are necessary to change it
into foul-smelling liquid if the tenn
perature is suitable. This change is
due to little plant called bacterium
termo. drop of this putrid material
under the microscope reveals many
thousands of them, acting under peeu-
liar vibratile motion.
Queen Victoria speaks ten Ian
guages fluently. The queens grand
daughter-in-law, the German empress,
is also clever as a linguist. She sur
prised her guests at recent court en-
tertainment by talking Norwegian to
one of them who came from that coun-
try. She plays the violin very we'll,
and when she and her husband manage
to get quiet evening together, they
generally devote it to music
81 have read somewhere" said an
early riser, that we don't eat hash as
much as we did, and | have no doubt
that is true, but we must still eat some,
for | hear occasionally, as l take my
morning stroll, issuing out of base
ment windows the familiar sound OF
the chopping knife-a sound, | will
add, not unpleasant to me, for while
hash may not be an extremely fashion
able dish, l am free to say that good
hash like Y. Sun.
-Dvorak's negro symphony, which
is made up of negro melodies and which
he wrote while rusticating last sum-
mer at the little bohemian settlement
at Spillville, Ia, has been enthusiasts
tically received in London. The great
composer says that in all that relates
to melody and to temperament the me-
groes are natural musicians, but that
it will take many generations of cul-
ture to develop their intellects to the
point of approaching the higher and
larger forms of mdsic.
Sometimes a man who wants to
stop street car snaps his fingers at
the driver or the gripman. 1t seems
as though the gripman would be ex-
asperated by that, but he doesn't ap,
pear to be. Some people lift hand
high in the air and hold it there, and
some people wave an umbrella or a
cane; but the great majority of people
have discovered that for all practical
purposes in stopping a car toothpick
necessary is to catch the drivers eye.
1t isn't necessary to shove house on
the track in front of him.