The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-08-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Governors Miss Butt by Governor
Atkinson of Georgia and Miss Ely by
Governor Taylor of Tennessee.
There we're present at a recent mar
riage in Martinsville, Ind, the mother
of the bride, aged thirty-four years;
the brides grandmother, aged sixty
three, and the brides great-grand-
mother, aged seventy-nine. The
BRIDES great great grandmother is liv-
ing at the age of ninety-nine years,
and in fairly good health, but she was
unable to make one Of the happy
party.
A railroad detective who travels al
most constantly between Chicago and
Cleveland reports that the number of
tramps now ON the road exceeds any
thing he has ever seen. He says that
it is not fair to call them tramps, for
they appear to be mechanics and la
borers out of employment. The de-
tective i'll question makes the almost
incredible statement that he counted
1877 tramps on one freight train as it
left Grand Crossing at night.
According to recent consular re-
port, Cuba, although its entire area is
only about equal to that of the State
of Pennsylvania, contains 13,000,0 900
acres of primeval forests, 'where the
woodman's axe has never been heard. F"
In these forests, which cover nearly
half the entire surface of the island,
are found among other timber, ma
hogany, cedar, redwood, logwoed,
ebony, lignum vitae, and tree with
extremely durable wood called caig-
uaran.
A movement has been started in
Kansas to have tornado cave at
tached to every school house as a
refuge for the children in times of
those destructive visitations which are
there so frequent, requiring special
provisions of refuge and protection
from them. Once in the cave, no mat
ter how violent the storm, the children
are safe. In some of the schools tor
nado drills have been instituted, the
pupils being instructed to file out in
military order, the signal being sounded
by the school piano when there is one;
when there is none it is given by word
Of mouth 1t is rather like fire drill
in its details, and out there is of much
more urgent necessity.
No more striking illustration of the
relatively bloodless character of the
recent Turko- Grecian war can be given
than that afforded by the official re-
turns recently issued, according to
which the number of prisoners taken
by the rival armies amounted to two
hundred men each, while in the Greek
hospitals there has throughout the
campaign not been a single Greek SOL
| der treated for sabre, bayonet or
lance wound, the only injuries being
those inflicted by rifle bullets or by
the explosion of shells. This is equiv
| hlent to a demons tration that there
was no hand-to-hand fighting, and
that the troops never really came to
close quarters throughout the struggle.
The plague which has recently been
raging with so much virulence in In
dia, and especially at Bombay, has
now reached Jeddah, which is the sea-
port and landing place of pilgrims
from all parts of the world for Mecca
and Medinah, the holy places of Islam.
| This is very serious, as it is now al
most certain that the plague will be
spread by the returning pilgrims to
the four quarters of the globe True,
the Ottoman authorities are stated to
have increased and elaborated the
quarantine precautions at Jeddah.
But Orientals are so careless about
such matters and so Indifferent even
to the most elementary rules and reg
ulations of sanitation that no reliance
can be attached to anything that the
Sultan's medical authorities may do or
not do in the matter.
A writer in the Ladi es' Home Jour
nal says that ''the centre of popula-
ton is the centre of gravity of the in
habitants of the country. If the
| United States were considered as q
plane, with all its people as of equal
weight, the centre of population would
be the point where the whole plane
might be balanced and remain steady
through equilibrium. 1t expresses the
net resultant Of the movements of pop
ulation from decade to decade This
point, according to the census of 1890,
| is located at 80 degrees 119 minutes
north latitude and So degrees 1919
minutes west longitude, about twenty
miles east of Columbus, Ind. 1t
moves westward about four miles
| year, and is now three -fourths of de-
| gree south and more than II degrees
| east of the centre of area"
Albert Edward will be 56 years old
| in November next. When he was
born not one of the present monarchs
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