The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

100000. The NUMBER was eAactiy
doubled last year, and this year the
total is 322000.
The British authorities in India have
been obliged to discontinue the
I bounties on dead snakes because the
natives went into the business OF
breeding the reptiles on large scale
in order to secure the reward paid for
/ their dead bodies.
at is beyond question:" says the
| Chicago Times Herald, that the aver
age farmer enjoys more of the creature
comforts of life, better health and
| greater independence than the aver
hge business man operating on like
capital in the city"
Mulhall, the great English statisti-
clan, alleges that at the death of Au-
| gustus Caesar the population of the
| earth was but 54,00O,000. That of Eu-
! rope before the fifteenth century did
| not exceed 5O,OO0,000 The worlds
population is now estimated at 1,479,-
72940O, that of Europe being 357, &c.,
600
| Ills is IL great IL yCdi IN inns
country, and under existing condi-
tons of cultivation every year, the
| New York World thinks, ought to be a
great fruit year In addition to sup
! plying our own demands we can build
up a large fruit-export trade which
will be valuable addition to our re-
| sources. The sale in London Of the
! ,ooonJ of tho 500 cop,c oarOoos nf Cali
| fornia fruit is reported as an improve
ment on the first one. There is rich
| future for an industry which has as
vet not been considered worthy of rec
ognitiop.
The New York Tribune believes that
| a considera BILE saving of time will be
effected by the new method of dis
charging and distributing foreign
mails which has just gone into opera
| ton. Fast tugs now meet the mail
steamers at Sandy Hook and receive
the mails, which are assorted on the
tugs and distributed to the various
railroads without passing through the
New York post Office. New York con-
tinues to be the great receiving point
for foreign mails, but gain of several
hours is made in sending them over
the country. Every gain of this kind
is appreciated by the people at large,
and especially by the business commu-
nifty.
The economy of municipal owner
shin of gas and electric light plants is
proposed as a subject for joint investl-
CATION by the National Department of
Labor and the Bureaus Of Labor Statfs-
tics in the several states, the agents
of the national bureau to confine their
inquiries to states which have no
bureaus of statistics. The inquiry will
be made in all cases upon uniform
blanks and according to uniform meth
ods. This will add greatly to the
value of results and their convenience
for investigators, because it will make
it possible to make easy and exact
comparisons. Every electric and gas
lighting plant in the United States
which is owned by the municipality
will be reported upon, and sufflclent
number of private establishments to
afford a basis of comparison between
the two classes.
A Rochester IN. " horseman says;
"Farmers are again beginning to raise
horses in this country, and more ara
bought and sold now than there were
two years ago. The cause is that we
are finding an English market. The
English are much slower than the
Americans to adopt the new transit
system. and they still make great use
of the old tramcars drawn by horses
It has been the custom of the railway
companies to buy their horses in Scot
land and on the continent. They have
lately discovered that they can get
better and cheaper horses on this side
| of the water. At the same time the
American farmers are finding the
same thing out in many localities, ana
they are raising horses to meet the de-
mand. Horsemen say that this de-
mand is increasing each year instead
| of diminishing"
A Los Angeles man tells The Wash
| ington Times that Los Angeles may
soon become the largest city in Can
fornia. "San Francisco" he says, has
been steadily retrograding, while the
population of Los Angeles has been as
steadily increasing. Los Angeles has
the whole of the interior back of 1t,
while San Francisco, being situated on
a narrow strip of land backed up by
mountains, has no place to spread and
no country from which to draw sup
plies. In 1890 the population of San
Francisco was $4,000, while to-day 10
is only 2S5,OO0. Los Angeles's popu-
lation in the same year was So,OOo,
while to-day it is 175,00O, so you see
we are steadily pulling up on them. In
my section of the country we know
nothing at all Of the hard times that
exist in the rest of the States. Every
thing is on the BOOM"
The British Government has recently