The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-09-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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a most important and valuable ad-
aition to human knowledge, if true.
But, unfortunately it seems TO have the
same deficiency that mars the very
valuable proverb: You can always
catch bird if you put salt ON its tail"
A Paris correspondent Of the London
Times writes: quite recently bull
fight was organized at Dijon, but
matadOrS. toreadors, bulls and trap
pings had to go as they came. No
Dody would patronize the horrible spec
| tacle. The thing fell utterly through
want of patronage 1t may be remem-
| 0ered that q similar tiasco occurred in
Paris not long after the exhibition of
1889. Bull fights did, indeed, disgrace
that huge cosmopolitan affair, but
ultimately the arena was pulled down
and the fittings sold for q mere song
| Parisians were disgusted with the
whole concern. 1t is to be hoped for
the honor of France that the projects
of the South will remorselessly carry
out their instructions and Danish this
Irelic of barbarism from French soil"
flour were sent to England this year,
and for the. two years preceding there
had been no shipment of this -four. The
shipment of -four from Pacific ports in
the United States to Japan, China,
Siberia and Australia is also increas-
ing in much larger ratio. Formerly
what San Francisco lost in these ship
| tg fol 1tyf bn ich
but the establishment of new steam
ship lines for freight from Oregon and
Seattle and Tacoma to Asiatic ports
has kept the increasingly important
-four export within the control Of the
United States shippers
1t is a popular idea that the Indians
of North America are fast disappearing
and that in few years they will have
vanished as a race. The truth is that
there are nearly 250,000 of them, ex-
elusive of the Alaskans.
A scientific study of the fig industry
in Turkey has resulted in the discov-
cry of the fact that the failure of the
Smyrna tig-trees in California to bear
fruit is on account of the lack of cap
riticaton. 1t was found that in the
fg-growing districts of the Orient
there are two distinct varieties of fig
trees---one the edible fig and the other
the capri or wild fig. In Turkey, and
In other lands along the eastern shore
Of the Mediterranean Sea, both vari-
eties are indigenous, and it has been
the custom of the Arab fruit-growers
from time immemorial to gather annu'
ally punches of twigs or branches
from the capri, or wild fig, and hang
them among, or close to, the cultivated
ig-trees. Further investigation showed
itate the progress of an insect known
to entomologists as the blastophaga
psenes, or fig wasp. from the wild OF
capri fig to the cultivated fruit. The
wasp is born in the wild fig, and
emerging thence goes to the cultivated
fig bearing pollen on its wings and legs
and thus fertilizes the cultivated fruit
when young. Specimens of the capr
fig were brought to this State imme
diately. In 1898 when the wild fig
trees bore their first fruit on Ameri
can soil, experiments were made II
several localities with the pollen from
them on the green fruit of the now
large trees that have been imported
from Smyrna. AS weeks advanced
the fruit that had not been fertilizet
shriveled and dropped from the trees
as it had done each summer season fol
six years, while the fertilized frui
ripened and proved the peer of any
that was ever packe and shipped
from Turkey.
The provisions of the new German
Civil Code with regard to married
women are arousing renewed indlg
nation now that the bill is passed, ant
Immediately before the decisive day 8
petition of protest to the Reichstas
was numerously signed in the CHIEF
cities of the Empire. The hardship
of the new law is that it reaffirms the
principle of perpetual tutelage for the
German wife and mother. BY marri
age she is deprived of control over hel
property and her actions and of al
rights over her children. She is in 8
position of subjection to her husband
from which English, American, Rus
sian, Scandinavian, Austrian, Hungari
an and Italian women have been freed
by the legislatures of those countries
To put it briefly, while among no,
100000 of people married womer
possess control over their property
and are not deprived of the rights they
enjoyed when single, 60000,O0O are
now declaring for a perpetuation OF
the barbarous old principles of pre-
civilized epochs. The married state il
Germany is, as German opinion has
forcibly expressed it, to be made by
word among the nations. The proposed
law sets upon matrimony the seal OF
servitude and minority or wardship
it degrades the life of the nation among
people who have raised marriage to q
| place of honor and equality.
The Milwaukee Journal describes a
new style of coffin, which it says has
been invented for wealthy people. TIC
oil amman RANGES II is simply luXur-