The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

or her will any person VINO ei'lips Va
emption on the ground that he or she
regards the operation as morally
wrong and in violation OF the laws o.
God"
Arbor day has spread until It has
reached the Pacific coast and In man!
parts Of California, Oregon and WASH
ington It is duly observed. The schoo
grounds. cemeteries and other public
places are usually selected for the tree
planting ceremony and the schoo
children perform the greater part o.
the work.
Interest IS gradually developing IN
the trans-Mississippi Exposition, when
is to be held at Omaha, Neb., in 1895
The fair will be specially in the interest
Of the twenty-four states west OF the
Mississippi. The most unique feature
of the show will be silver palace
made entirely Of metal, silyer-plated
The building will be in the most ornate
Gothic style, suggested by the eXqul-
site lace-like architecture of the Milan
Qtaly) cathedral.
When the Legislature of Nebraska
enacted a law two years ago offering a
bounty for the destruction of the Rus
sian thistle, it was with the notion that
the thistle was a dangerous and I'M
mitigated nuisance. Now, however, it
has been demonstrated that the plant
is valuable both as fodder and fuel,
and the act is to be repealed. This
interesting little incident affords a
practical illustration of Emerson's
theory that "a weed is a plant whose
good uses have not been found out. :"
In Denmark when a man is found too
drunk to find his own house he is
placed in a cab taken to the police
station, examined by the doctor, de-
tanned till sober, and then dispatched
to his home in another cab, and the
bill for the doctor, the cab and the pol
ice attendance has to be paid by the
publican who served the bibulous delin-
quent with his last drink. In Turkey
it is the drunkard who is punished.
The punishment for the first offence
is the bastinado; the second and third
offences are also followed by chastise-
ment; but after the third offence the
onender becomes privileged, and is
entitled to be carefully taken home by
policeman.
Austria proposes to introduce radical
innovations into its university systems
Students fees are to go to the govern
ment instead Of individual professors,
while professors salaries throughout
the empire are to be equalized. Moret
over, well known professors are to be
distributed among the provincial uni
yersites instead of being retained at
centers like Vienna and Prague, in
order to check the flow of provincial
students to the great cities. The re-
suit will be the establishment of a
system of higher instruction, somewhat
resembling that in American colleges.
Objection is made TO the scheme on the
ground that it gives the government
too much power over the higher edu-
cation.
DR.. Ogle, of the English Registrar
Generals Department. gives figures
that show that out Of every 100000
persons 225 females and 50 males are
alive at the age of 100. In general,
it has been proved that for every
male centenafian there are two fe-
males. And the dear men account for
this phenomenon in connection with
the weaker sex by asserting that the
propensity OF women to talk and gossip
is conducive to the active circulation
of the blood, while the body remains
unfatigued and unchanged. Other
statisticians say that woman leads in
general a more calm and unimpassion-
ed existence than man, and life less
burdened with toll and trouble. Yet
some of these centenarian women are
from the poorer classes, where the
women are home makers, bread win
ners and mothers Of large families.
Chicago doctors have lately come to
the conclusion that the spread of diph-
iberia and other contagious diseases in
cities is traceable to pet cats and dogs.
Careful investigation has proved that
u great part of the diphtheria prevalent
in the city and nearly ali of the scarlet
fever has been traced to cats. They
not only are subject to the disease it.
self, but are also the means of a direct
of microbes. But diph-
iberia and scarlet fever contagion has
not been the sole extent of the evil.
Several cases of small pox have been
reported by health officers in different
parts of the country which have been
brought about in the same way. House.
hold pets are in the habit of wandering
out Of doors, even when the most care
full vigilance is kept over them. Cats
and dogs especially are in the habit of
taking nocturnal excursions to garb-
alleys and into the central
point Of disease and contagion,
Paul Pioneer Press In support Of the
belief that the Indian is advancing.
The physical decadence Of the race, SO
noticeable few years ago, is said to
have practically ceased. Instead of
decreasing in numbers the Indians in
he Indian territory in the Northwest
ire increasing. 1t is an old story that
he number of the engaged in agricul-
ure is steadily increasing. Liquor is
osing its attraction among them. and
otal abstinence is practised by multi
udes Of them. With many the wig
VAN has been succeeded by a rude
house, the schools find more favor.
md civilized methods of living are