The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-21

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look out for a law suit.
The production Of bicycles in 1896
was $4,000, as against 1000 in 1885.
Inc capital now invested is $50, 600 600
Inc estimated output for the present is
not less than 100000 wheels. The
commissioner Of Public Roads of New
Jersey asks; What better argument
Tor 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 marrles, and shall pay it once
a month. There is also a provision to
the effect that young unmarried persons
OF either sex who shall, without suffci-
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 $4,000, 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,Ol4, at State expense, Michigan being
next with 2,575, then California with
2,4OO, followed by Wisconsin with 1000,
Nebraska with 1906, Iowa with 1900,
and Illinois with LOO. Tuition fees
are charged in ONLY six States, the fee
in North Carolina being $50, iii South
Carolina $40, in Iowa SIS, in Missouri
$40, in Oregon So and in South Da-
kota So.
Your chance Of being buried alive is
anywhere from to 20 in 1, 900, accord
ing to statistics gathered in England,
Wales, France and Germany Colonel
e. P. Vollum and Mr. Tebb have writ
ten 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
percentage of these distressing disas
ters, as compared to the total annual
interments, is small is obvious, but a
small percentage on $50, 600 annual
burials in England and Wales, on $780,,
600 in France and over 1.0000 coo in the
United States will total vast aggre-
gate of unimaginabe and needless suf-
fering. 1t would have been impos5i-
BILE to include all the cases collected,
says Mr.. Tebb, in a volume OF 400 pages.
DR.. Franz Hartmann himself has col
ected 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 2,319 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,
ia the clesnest city in the country
has an excellent system of sewers and
general sanitation, and in ordinary
times boasts of 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 lacklng--cases of Cne 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 III
Southern India where the extensive
family of the murinae ceases and that
of the bandicoots begins.
Berlin is wondering over the marvel
ous achievements Of Otto Poepler, the
son of a butcher. He is an infant pro-
diev of the most infantile and prodig-
ions sort, for he taught himself to read
at the age of two, and now, though only
four wears old, has been deemed worthy
of presentation to the AnthropoloSical
Society of Berlin as remarkable speci-
men of precocious intelligence. His
opportunities for acquiring information
have been small, and yet from an et-
tentiye study of the few books thaI
have come in his way and from oDserV-
irg the inscriptions on the monuments
with which the German capital Is rleh'
tbe child has managed to learn an
amazing amount of history and some
thing of literature. He is already in
torostad in Latin and Greek, and pro-
lessor who has been investigating lhe
case saws Otto shows remarkable aolil- (
Nv for learning languages. Inc boy |
hiss a perfect passion for reading, but
his dislike for music amounts almost
IN horror. For writing he has not yet .
manifested any aptitude lie has been
taught to make the first letters OF h's
name but rebels at gaining further
slill in that line. He is described as
well developed, though not robust
An Italian physician who has devoted
voars Of study to the diseases that pre-
vail in tropical countries is Of the oPin-
ion that every one Of them peculiar 10
those regions is OF parasitic origin On,
- ,,.or5s the result Of bacterial