The Louisiana populist., 1897-07-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

seventy of whom are alive. She has
had nine children-four sons and five
daughters; forty-one grandchildren,
and thirty great-grandchildren. Two
of her children and eight grandchil-
dren have died.
The Red Cross Cycle Corps, of Chi.
cago, was organized to furnish prompt
medical treatment to persons injured
in bicycle accidents. The plan is for
each member of the corps to be in.
structed in the preliminaries of sur
gerry, so as to be ready to relieve suf-
fering wherever found Each member
Of the organization will be required to
carry, strapped to his wheel, small
medicine case filled with bandages,
antiseptic dressings and drugs, ready
for immediate use.
Big stories are being told of the
vitality of the Turks. One man shot
through the stomach in recent battle
stayed in the ranks till the fighting
was over and then marched ten miles
before reporting to the doctors. An,
other with wound in each leg and one
in the shoulder kept on duty for
twenty-four hours. when an officer
noticed him and sent him to the hospi-
tai. The doctors attribute the quick
recovery of the Turkish wounded to
their abstemious habits.
AN experiment in cooperative farm
ing and manufacturing is soon to be
tried in Ray City, MINI. All the
work done will be on the cooperative
plan, the workmen being stockholders
and participating in the profits. They
are to own homes purchased from the
corporation, are to have wages on the
eight-hour SYSTEM, protection in case
Of sickness, and loss of home from any
cause is to be reduced to the mini
mum.
ONE Of the recent marine inventions
is multi-keel vessel, a form of ship
with flat bottom, provided with five
Or seven keels. The inventor claims
greater carrying capacity and in
creased floating power, with higher
speed, than any other form of ship.
The bow and stern are spoon-shaped,
the vessel has two sternposts and two
rudders, linked together so as to move
simultaneously, and two propellers.
1t is also claimed for this model that
it can be turned in its own length,
and will, in smooth water, steer equally
as well whether running ahead or
astern.
In spite of her many trials and tribu.
lations poor old Spain is not entirely
devoid of domestic progress. In the
last two years she has built nearly 600
miles of railroad, and in the last ten
years considerably over 1000. Nearly
all the Spanish railways are owned by
private corporations and subsidized by
the government. Railway travel in
Spain is deliberate performance, de-
void of all hustle, and free from the
rush and hurry of American travel. It
is rather trying to the nerves to ride
on Spanish railway. The story that
Spaniards put the cowcatcher on the
rear OF the trains to prevent accidents
Is, however an exaggeration.
ALL the guns, standards and other
trophies captured by the French from
the Russians during the Crimean War
were returned to Russia more than a
year ago. Emperor Nicholas prom
ised at the time that he would return
the compliment, But, in spite of this
assurance, no steps have as yet been
taken to restore to France the guns
and the flags which she was COM
PEELED to abandon to the Russians
during her terrible retreat from Mos
cow in 1912. The delay is exciting
both surprise and irritation at Paris,
and is tending still further to cool off
the enthusiasm which, until the be-
ginning Of this year prevailed in
France in favor Of everything Russian.
The Medical Record quotes some
statistics ON the morphine habit from
work recently published in Paris.
From this it will be seen that NOR
phinomania is most prevalent in Ger
many, France and the United States,
although it has victims in Russia,
Sweden, Turkey and the remote East.
Statistics show that the medical pro-
fession supplies 40 per cent. of the
male morphinists, which is the largest
proportion; after which follow men of
leisure, 10 per cent. merchants, s per
cent; while peasants, clergymen and
politicians occupy the lowest positions
numerically on the list. Among the
females addicted to the habit, the
largest number, 43 per cent,
are women of means, and these are
followed in number by the wives Of
medical men, who make up 10 per
cent. of the list. It is said that there
are entire villages in Germany whose
inhabitants are all addicted to the use
of the drug, but the general belief that
the morphine habit is more extensive
ly practiced in Paris than in any other
city is contradicted. Morphinomania
occurs with the nraatest frannannu ha.