The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-10-01

.uiA oh,;shy.sat Of rigid res'rics'oA
a mas, rs dasnoiIis.N them. Places OF In, ~
tural beauty have peen oot,on give
ment of settlers, ana sucn sor settin
an excellent preceA sore exist in
apart the small tracts ". .r.+ion relic
remarkable state of presen ore Of III
of prehistoric man, which
highest value to scientists.
A short time ago the Postoffic> :,
nartment decided that a railroad COZ
not lawfully carry letters, even letter.
of its own business, without paying
hostage thereon. Now. the order has
been modified so that they are allowed
to carry letters about their own bust.
ness only, to their own employees on
their own line. But the monopoly of
the government for acting as carrier
of sealed correspondence to third per-
sons is maintained by the Department
after an opinion by Acknowledgement
Harmon. Even express companies are
by the ruling, not entitled to carry
correspondence for third persons,
though the practice has been common
hitherto. The government asserts its
exclusive right to handle letter mail.
though anything not in the nature of
personal correspondence may be sent
by other carriers.
Some time ago Alexander Hoagland,
the self-styled ''newsboys friend, Wis
tied Kansas City, Kan, and induced
the City Council to inaugurate cur
few system. AS there was no bell
available that could be heard all over
the city, the big whistle on packing
house was officially designated as the
''curfew bell At 8 o'clock during the
summer months and at 8 o'clock on the
winter evenings it will blow as warn
ing to children under fifteen years OF
age to hurry to their homes. The po
lice have enforced the ordinance close,
ly, and already the sounding OF the
whistle is recognized as signal for
children to step their playing. For
fifteen. Ginutes before the hour for II
to Blow the boys and girls play with a
feverish haste. and when 1t Is heard
they scamper like rats when cat ap'
pears. Some of the boys who wish to
stay out little later have adopted
various ruses to deceive the policemen.
One of them successfully claimed for
several days that he had been sent by
his father after box of backing, and
as an evidence of good faith he showed
an empty box which he was to ex'
hibit to the merchant to inform him OF
the kind wanted Other youngsters
claim to be older than they are with a
view of securing immunity from the
law.
DR.. G. Brown Goode, the government
fish expert, has for many years been
studying Oceanic ichthyology.' and
the results of his work are embodied
in an elaborate report now in press at
the Government Printing Office. DIR.
Goode believes that there are many in
habitants of the depths too swift, too
wary, or too large to be captured by
the nets and travis used by him. The
appliances are crude. and though
every cast of the net brings up new
specimens, there is no way of telling
to what particular depths they belong
or how many escape altogether. Down
IN the basement of the Smithsonian
Institute in Washington is the finest
colleetion of deep-sea fishes in the
world, preserved in alcohol. One of
the most startling specimens taken by
DR.. Goode is the "Linophryne Lucifer,
fish which carries long appendage
to it's nose, at the end of which is a
bulb for producing light at will, for In
the dark ocean depths most of the fisl
are provided with some SORT of light
ing apparatus. The source of light is
usually phosphorus. which is emitted
with mucus from a series of glands
Here are fish, then, that glory in what
is as good as a portable electfic-light
plant, run automatically. We know
that phosphorus is abundant in fish
and the principle of natur al selection
would account for these complicated
lighting apparatuses being gradually
evolved by the fish themselves to sui
the necessities Of their environment.