The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-05-06
EXCHANGE FL ASHES.

Fuck recently inquirer INV W
distinguish between a newspaper
mar and journalist. A Kansas
paper says that "a newspaper man
wears two white shirts week,
while journalist wears one white
SHIRT two weeks" rhe MInneap~
oils Journal says that ga journalist
is a newspaper man with magazine
notions The Kansas City Journ,
al thinks thar "the surest test is
that the newspaper man usually
has job, while the journalist has
not" One of the chief duties of
the newspaper man is to consign to
the waste basket what the journal
list writes aud the Journalist or
dinarlly may be distinguished by
the long hair which he wears for
ballast, says another critic.-Ex.
A correspondent asks: "Do you
believe IN christian science p No!
this week. There is so much to be-
lieve IN now we have to divide our
time. One week we believe In
christian science, the next in rain
making, the next IN money talk,
and the next in objective appari-
ton. Then we take a rest for
week and don't believe in anything.
1t is a good way and keeps a mans
faith from being Overstrained.-
Beevile TEX Bee.
Geo. Purple has on exhibition
at his store pig with one head.
two bodies and eight feet, which is
truely montrosity seldom if eyer
seen before. The mother of this
curious freak of nature is poland
China SOW owned by G. F. Collins
on the Osius' arh.-Edmore { Mlch.)
Journal.
1t has developed since the death
of Senator VOORHEES, that he Was
poor man, having only money
enough to keep his family for
three or four months. The should
be lesson to the croak ers. calam-
| ity howlers, and fraud sbriekers,
that propose to save the nation by
some panacea they claim to be the
father of; aud also teach the peos
pie that dishonesty In high places
IS much less than these wolves in
sleeps clothing would have us be-
leve. The uruth Is that the man
who is always hallooing SO loucly
against corruption only lacks the
opportunity to steal something
himself, and most Of them succeed
in stealing when p aced il a posi-
ton where they can. Washington
News Letter.
Doctor" said the patient, 81 be-
lieve there is something wrong with
my stomach" mot a bit,' replied
the medical man, very promptly.
"God made your stomach, and He
knows how to make them. There's
something wrong with the stuff you
put in it, maybe, and something
wrong in the way you stuff it In
and stamp it down, but your stom
ach itself is all right" And then
the patient Immediately went ont to
find a physician who understood
his business.-T-D.
An Illinois legislator has pro.
posed an amendment to the libel
law in that state, making it illegal
for any newspaper to unduly eu!oe
giZe any person or persons, thus
misleading the public by creating
reputaJloE upon no foundation of
merit. An exception is made with
respect to obituary notices. The
exception is unfortunate. Histori.
ans as well as newspapers should
be included under the ban of such
a law.-Press and Printer.
The increasing wealth of Ameri-
can colleges enables no less than 10
of them to publish daily newspa-
pers. This luxury is INDUCED 10
by Yale, Cornell, Princeton, Brown,
Stanford, Tulane and the Univer-
stiles of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
and Michigan. 1t will not he long
before our Georgia boys and girls
will have one at Athens.-Atlanta
(Ga.) Constitution.
THE ATRSHlP.
And now comes Thomas Edison
and declares that the airship stories
are fakes. Tom says: whenever
an airship is made it will no: he in
the form of a balloon. 1t will be a
mechanical continuance, which will
be raised by means of a powerful
motor, which must be made of very
light weight. At present no one
has discovered such motor, but
we never know what will happen.
We may wake up tomorrow morns
ing and hear of some inveation
which sets us all eagerly 70 work
within few hours, as was the case
with the Roentgen rays. Their
success may come. / am not, how.