The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-04-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


never has to stand and listen to the
flatterer. A poor man always knows
the worlds candid opinion of him.
Figures have been compiled by Dr..
Ogle, of the English Registrar-Gener-
ais department, showing that out OF
every million persons 50 men and 225
women are alive at the age Of 100.
A Kentucky man buys all se horses
he can get at 81 a head. He ills them,
feeds the flesh to his hogs, sells the
hides and bones, and finds it profitable.
Whenever he buys a horse for 81 and
he can sell it for 50 he lets it go, other
wise it is fed to the hogs.
Dir. p. R. Brewer, of Chicago; says
he is the rightful owner Of 600 acres OF
land in the heart of Philadelphia, the
present value of which is about $780,
100000 He remarks that If somebody
will pay over to him that $400,00O,OO0
he won't do a thing to anybody; but
if the money is not forthcoming, just
look out for law suit.
The production of bicycles in 1896
was 100000, as against 1000 in 1888.
The capital now invested is $90,O00,0OO.
The estimated output for the present is
not less than 100000 wheels. The
Commissioner of Public Roads Of New
Jersey asks: What better argument
for the speedy Improvement of our
roads than the necessity of affording
passage for this immense number OF
vehicles?"
The new marriage law in Argentine
provides that every male from the age
of twenty to thirty shall pay a TAX
until he marries, and shall pay 1t once
q month. There is also provision to
The effect that young unmarried persons
of either sex who shall, without suffici-
ent reason, reject the addresses OF
those who may aspire to their hands
and who continue contumaciously I'M
married shall pay 500 piastres for the
benefit of the young person, male or
female, who has been refused.
There are forty State colleges in the
United States, some States having more
than one, and the number of students
in 1896 was 80 600 which is about one
fifth of the total number of students
in all the colleges in the country. Min
nesota educates the largest number,
3,014, at State expense, Michigan being
next with 2,575, then California with
2,400, followed by Wisconsin with 1,60o,
Nebraska with 1896, Iowa with 1900,
and Illinois with LOO. Tuition fees
are charged in only six States, the fee
in North Carolina being $50, in South
Carolina $40, in Iowa s25, in Missouri
$20 in Oregon $40, and in South Da-
kota SO.
Your chance of being buried alive is
anywhere from to 20 in 1000, accord
ing to statistics gathered in England,
Wales, France and Germany. Colonel
e. P. Vollum and Mr. Tebb have writ
ten a book on the subject of premature
burial, and they have followed up the
book by declaring that they by no
means exaggerated the case. That the
ters, as compared to the total annual
interments, is small is obvious, but a
small percentage on $4,000 annual
burials in England and Wales, on $780,
600 in France and over 100000 in the
United States will total vast aggre-
gate of unimaginable and needless SUI
fering. 1t would have been impossi-
BILE to include all the cases collected,
says Mr.. Tebb, in volume of 400 pages.
DR.. Franz Hartmann himself has col
lected 700 cases, including several in
his own district, and DR.. lie Guern,
whose work entitled Danger des In
humations' has passed through sever
al editions, has collected 2,913 cases.
1t is noted as both remarkable and
alarming that Bombay, where the raw
ages OF the plague have been vastly
greater than in any other part of India,
is the cleanest city in the country,
has an excellent system of sewers and
general sanitation, and in ordinary
times boasts of a death rate so low as
to compare fairly well with that OF
more than one European capital. Yet
here the malady has assumed its most
deadly form, while at Calcutta, city
where hygienic precautions are mostly
of the true Oriental sort-that is, en-
tirely lacking-cases OF .Ae disease
have been few, and those attacked by
it usually recover. The Chinese theory
of the plague is that it originates in
the ground and rises slowly from it,
killing animals of different heights one
after another as it mounts above the
surface. The rats, they say, are the
first victims everywhere, and then in
order come pigeons, pigs, dogs, goats,
sheep, cows, buffaloes, and finally man.
Observers have noticed, too, that where
there are no rats the malady does not
go. 1t has never crossed the line in
Southern India where the extensive
family of the murinae ceases and that
of the bandicoots begins.
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