The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-12-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


be worn with the medal OF honor
awarded to soldiers for distinguished
gallantry. has prescribed silk ribbon
one inch wide and one inch in length,
with red. white and blue stripes.
Casters Magazine suggests the need
Of an ice machine of small capacity
which can be sold at low price. Ihere
is a great field for such device, ana
the inventor of a successful ma
chine of this nature will undoubtedly
reap a rich reward. This is a goou
field for inventors to work in, Tor al
though many Improvements have peeh
made. they are usually adapted only
to large plants.
The expedition sent out last spring by
the Geological Survey to explore the
headwaters of the Yukon ana TO uls-
cover if possible the source OF the golu
found along that river has returned
with wonderful tale Of rich ore VEINS
extending from the British TERRITORY
into Alaska in the neighborhood Oh
Forty-mile Creek, and running thence
for we hundred miles in northeastef-
ly direction. The gold belt is at least
hundred miles wide and the geologlsts
say that the deposits are fully as rich
as those Of South Africa.
The election of Mrs. Matte Hughes
Cannon to the State Senate OF Utah Is
another step forward in the progress
of women in politics in this country
They have hitherto been chosen 10
seats in the lower legislative branches
of the government in one or two OF the
States where they share equal pollt-
ical privileges with the men, but this is
the first instance where woman mas
been elected to the upper legislative
branch. What adds a special signifi-
canoe to this case is that the woman
ran against her own husband, and
beat him out of sight.
Kansas City paper says that nrh
in that city, which makes canned soups
of various sorts, was surprised to re-
ceive from Rhode Island the other day
an inquiry as to the terms at which 1t
would sell ''wshbones' in thousand
lots. The request has revealed to the
company a new source of income. anu
ne not wholly unimporant. Hitherto
the skeletons of the numerous fowls 1t
uses have been ground into fertilizer,
but having discovered that there is
demand for "wishbOnes" to be used
for various decorations and senti-
mental purposes, the Kansas City men
think that by properly pushing the
trade they can get more for this bone
than they have been receiving for ali
the rest.
A yarn about living mastodons seen
by Indians in the mysterious eastern
part of Alaska recently went the
rounds of many papers. Some of them
| gave it headlines Indicative of more or
| less belief and others cautiously made
| generous use of alleged and ut is
said" Prof. George Davidson of San
Francisco, not only derides the very
| idea that elephans prinogenus still sur
| wives, but says that the tale was stolen
| bodily from Il book by Aleck Badlam-
whoever he may be-and formed one of
a series that made no pretense to
| truth. Among the inventions of this
author, it sens, was an animal, also
nominally Alaskan, with long legs on
one side and short ones on the other a
form of construction evolved to meet
the needs of a creature that passed all
its time on steep mountain sides.
If the plans recommended by Charles
Payne, of Wichita, Kan, the we'll
known hunter and authority on wild
game, are carried out, the greatest pri-
vate game preserve in the United
States will soon be established in
Northern New Mexico. Mr.. Payne has
been frequently mportuned by
wealthy men for information as to the
| best location for extensive private
| hunting grounds in the West, and he
recently took trip through Colorado
and New Mexico. His report recon-
mends the purchasing of nearly 200,-
| 600 acres of mountain land. which now
belongs to the Maxwell Land Grant
| Company, and which is located in
Northern New Mexico. Should it be
used for a game preserve, the entire
tract will be enclosed with high and
strong wire fence and stocked with all
manner of wild game.
Some courageous person recently
wrote TO Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas,
asking him if it We're true that one of
his daughters is named Ina and an
other IRA. Statements to that effect
have frequently appeared in print,
but most people supposed that they
were the inventions of discourteous
humorists or of political enemies. 1t
seems at least that they We're half true,
for in answering the query addressed
to him, the Governor says: 1.-The name
Ina was given to my daughter a few
days after her birth, and the singular
application of it to the old, well-estab
lished name of her paternal ancestors
did not occur to any one until had en-
tered political life" There is no
daughter named IRA. for the reason.