The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-12-03
run smoother and the bottom affords
better holding ground.

better holding grounu.
The cotton crop, says the New Or
leans Picayune. upon the sale OF which
the character of the seasons trade de-
ponds, promises to be fairly good, not
indeed. as large as has been expected
earlier. in the season, but still large in
comparison with average crops. This
crop will, In all likelihood, sell at salts
factory prices. As it was grown very
cheaply. its sale is sure to make money
plentiful throughout the south, and
New Orleans cannot fail to profit large
ly from that fact. The Louisiana
sugar crop, the sale of which Is such an
important part of the business Of this
city. promises TO be as large as the
largest ever raised In this state, If, in
deed. it does not outstrip all previous
Yields
DR.. ]. +. Masters, missionary in
China, says the Chinese word for
heavenly is "teen," with an aspirate on
the vowels The missionary left out
the aspirate, with the result that the
word meant crazy After DR.. Mas
tiers had studied Cantonese few
months he endeavored to preach
sermon He wrote it out carefully,
but made so many blunders in tones,
vowel quantities and aspirates that
some of the Chinese remarked how
much the English language resembled
the Chinese. They supposed that he
had been preaching in English! On
do 70, ny.1D
roast chicken, and told his cook to
go out and set fire to the street.
Australia just now presents an inter
esting spectacle Of the making OF ma
ton out of scattered colonies. OF these
there are six; Queensland, South Aus
tralia, Western Australia, Tasmania,
Victoria and New South Wales. The
last two are the smallest, but yet the
Oldest, most populous, and by far the
richest of ALL The total white popula-
ton of Australia is not quite 100000,
of which, says Mr. owen Hall, 100000
belong to Victoria and New South
Wales while Western Australia has less
than 100000. Each of the six colonies
is entirely lf-governing, and, as re-
CARDS domestic affairs, practically in
dependent.
According to the Youths Companion,
the record of pardons throughout the
| United States indicate that prison life
agrees with wealthy prisoners much
less than with those who are poor IL
seems to be true that the health of
wealthy criminals is not infrequently
so impaired within a short time that
only release from prison will save their
lives; while it is usually the experience
Of moneyless prisoners that their
physical condition is considerably i'm
proved by the plain fare and regular
regime of prison life.
The Indianapolis Journal says: New
York and Michigan apples are sold in
the Indianapolis streets while the crop
in orchards not twenty-five miles away
lies rotting ON the ground. The rea-
sons for this state of affairs are not
hard to find. Indiana farmers do not
give the attention to their orchards that
Eastern and Northern growers do
They plant the trees that some enter
prising agent sells them, and give them
little more Thought or attention. The
orchards should be improved and farm
ers should become as skilled in horti-
culture as they are in the growing OF
corn and wheat"
The following large cities of the
United States are without representa-
tives in the United States Senate: New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn,
ST. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, San Fran
cisco. Cleveland, Buffalo, New Orleans,
and Pittsburg. The only large city in
the United States which will have
representative in the next United
States Senate as the result of elections
already held or which had represent
ative in the last United States Senate
was Cincinnati, and Cincinnati has not
had previously a representative in the
United States Senate since 1885, when
the term of Geo. H. Pendleton ceased.
The unique feature in the life of ex'
Senator Thomas w. Ferry, who died
the other day in his SEVENTEEN year,
was that at one time he was acting
vice-president of the United States,
This circumstance was occaSloned by
the death of Vice President Henry Will
son in 1875, when Mr.. Ferry was the
president pro tempore of the United
States Senate; and while acting in that
capacity it became his duty to sign the
document which declared Rutherford
B. Hayes to have been elected Presi
dent of the United States.