The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ring in English footbaA games in the
course of the presenf season shows
that there were TWEEN weight deaths
and loft players badly injured.
THERE are 25, $50 negro schoolsnow
in the South, where 2,25O,0 600 negroes
have learned to read and most of them
TO write. In the colored schools are
23S, 900 pupils and 20 1000 negro teach
| ers. There are $50 schools for adj
yanced education and seven colleges
administered by negro presidents ana
faculties.
MINISTER LEP1NE, 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 quoted 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
panized in Vienna. 1t is to include
| Americans, Englishmen and Ter
| mans, and will settle on lands IN the
Kenia district of British East Africa,
| about $50 miles above the mouth OF
| the Tena River. The colony will in
| clude some well-known Anarchists
md 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, a few days ago,
with a capital stock Of T2,oW, ooo.
| A dam is to be erected at Victor Mar
rows, on the Mojave River, in a
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
| 200. 600 acres of land on the MoJaye
| desert. which will then be especially
| adapted for growing raisin grapes ana
alfalfa.
THE Sultan of Turkey has lost none
| of the attributes additionally assoc
| ciated with the position he occupies.
| There is a general idea that every
| Sultan is a 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 car%penterins
| 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 SAM
| tary arrangements as may prevent an
epidemic of cholera.
THE Fall River cotton mill corpora
| lions do not appear to have been SUI
fering greatly from the hard times OF
1898. The annual statement OF thirty
four corporations, owning fifty-siS
mills, shows that they have paid in
| dividends during the year 1882 600,
which is al average of Z 9-lOper cent
on a capitalized stock of $50, 37S, 900.
One mill paid a dividend OF 20 pei
cent, and several made from 10 to
-. The workpeople in these mills
felt the pinch, however, for therd was
a reduction of wages during the year
of from 8 to Is 2-3 per cent, sand
there were shut-downs Of from two
to nine weeks.
ENGLAND has a national union fo1
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
a high standard, both in theory and
practice, are rewarded with diplomas,
giving 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
RE and mountain trails are the only
wagon routes, has not advanced be
yond the wheel tracks of primitive
times. For the most part a LITTLE
shovelling is the only work that has
been done, and that only at the cross
ings of gullies and where the trail lie
through canons. In the outskirts o
towns irrigating bitches %frequentl.,
cross the road, and their overflow
and washouts, which occur more o
less frequently, may cut dangerou
gullies in the highway or conceal
in a wide shallow lake. Woodel
bridges and culverts have been triet
on much-travelled trails, but they ar
apt to disappear, as the native Mexi
can population regard them as provi
Dental gifts to remove for their owl
private purposes. Where the roat
skirts the edge of gullies, rains an'
floods often undermine the sides
which, falling off in sections, leave
sheer wall, it may be, fifteen or twent,
feet high. By successive s%louching
the trail is encroached on in place
and a detour must be made. Thus
stage ride in a broken country
likely to be exciting to the point O