The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-22
Or GENERAL INTEREST.

In Kansas, railways nave resolved
to abolish the practice of sending
passes to state officers, senators, repre-
sentatives, etc, promiscuously, and
will hereafter issue passes only upon
request, thus placing the responsibility
of the ''pass influence" upon the pass
holders.
Astoria, Ore, is the largest town
in the United States which has no rail
way. Local papers announce that the
want is about to be supplied. Capital
lists have accepted the land subsidies
offered by the town, and will build
line to Globe to connect with the
Northern Pacific.
The total amount of fuel used on
the c., B. & @. railroad in the year
1893 was 925,27O tons, costing 81, 291, 1903.
An idea of this vast amount of coal
may be realized when it is stated that
it is twice the whole amount of coal
consumed in the city of Chicago in the
year 1893 by all her industries and in
all her heating and power boilers.
Daniel X. Wilson has entered upon
his forty-frst consecutive year as ticket
| dRCAu du ulC bCAdWdlC ~ Auetool oeeb
tion in Saratoga. Mr.. Wilson was ten
years the agent at Schenectady, and in
1857 was transferred to Saratoga. His
name has been on the pay rolls Of the
Rensselaer, & Saratoga or Delaware &
Hudson every month for forty-three
years.
Some persons recall with grief the
do of tab ali he xxhan h06U
in the club contributed dollar a
month and as each watch was paid for
some one of the club drew it by lot
The club principle has been applied
somewhat differently to portrait pho
| Biography, and that art, which is
cheaper and better for the money than
ever before in all it's history, is made
| cheaper still to members of the club.
1t is interesting to know that the
Belgian people consider chiccory a
healthful drink, and that they mix it
with their coffee on the advice of native
| doctors; for we receive from Flanders
every year four thousands tons of the
chiccory root, which is mixed with our
coffee as means of increasing the
profits of the dealers in ''pure Mocha
and Java In addition to this, we get
large quantities of chiccory from Ger
many and France.
| 1t is to the manner in which differ
| ent colors are absorbed or reflected by
| a BODY that it's color is due. It white
light falls upon red rose bush, the red
alone is reflected from the flower, the
other colors being absorbed The green
leaves, on the other hand, absorb the
red entirely, and reflect nearly all the
| green light A rose in green light or
4 leaf in red light would appear abso-
lutely black, for in each case the light
which the object can reflect is absent
| Kaiser Wilhelm, who is fond of re-
viving the usages of his ancestors, has
Just instituted tabakscollegium or
tobacco parliament, on the model OF
those of Frederick William l., the
father of Frederick the Great. The
tobacco parliaments'' are held at the
scene of the former ones at koenigs-
wusterhausen. Among the latest
guests were the king of Saxony, Prince
George of Saxony, and the duke OF
Altenburg. The emperor heads the
table and sets an example to the guests
by smoking a long German pipe.
in America it has been observed
that bees often bore tubular corollas
in order to get at the nectar of flowers,
4 instead of entering by the mouth, as
humble bees do in Europe In essays
on the Decentralization of flowers
this supposed anomaly has been the
subject of much comment. 1t now ap'
nears that the humble bees of Europe
and America have identical habits IN
regard to the manner in which the
visits to flowers are made, and that II
is the class of insects known as the
carpenter bee, or the borer, which
works in the outside manner indicated.
From Portuguese South Africa
where the Jesuit and Dominican faith
ere have been teaching the natives
trades. an English resident reports
.aTbe poldsmiths' work at Tete would
do credit to the best workmen IN En-
gland or elsewhere. Equally clever
Are the carpenters in making boats
and turning out furniture. We have
seen doors and windows which equalleo
our European importations. Inc ma
tives understand the tanning o.
leather. Tailors abound, and SO &c
vashermen. Pottery work has reached
. state of excellence not dreamed OF II
orr midst Tiles and bricks are made
at the Baroma mission, further up the
Zambesi. The respectful attitude OF
the natives toward Europeans is IN
marked contrast to that of the Arr
cans in British Nyassaland."