The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Maine have died since the election
and before the session was half done
a loss never equaled there before
One Of the results of the Indian
plague has been to flood the LONDON
market with pearls. The native deal
ers In the marts Of Bombay have been
in such haste TO quit the stricken city
that they have eagerly disposed OF theii
wares at far below the customary mar
ket value.
The State Of Arkansas claims to DC
first in the South in the production oil
small fruits and apples, first IN the
Union in quantity of uncut timber, sec
ond in the Union in coal, and second In
the number of acres required to produce
a standard bale of cotton, Louisiana
being first, but only slightly in the lead
A little bit Of municipal reform Is APP
parently needed in Chicago. The chi
cago Evening Post remarks; 'When
Washington Hesing at the banquet OF
the Merchants Club, said that Chica-
90 was the dlrtlest large city in the
world except Constantinople, the truth
was SO palpable to those present that
they were filed with pity and disgust
over Constantinople. And when he
said that Chicago's assessment is the
most outrageous OF any city In the
world, there was not man around the
table to take issue with the statement,
because every man there knew that 1t
was VIGOROUSLY, scandalously, discre-
ditably true"
"Who shall persuade coming ages,
asks a writer in the Chicago Times
Herald, that the busiest city in the
world harbors women who pursue
whist as the chief duty of life; who
screw up their household finances to
the tightest possible point in order to
pay an expert SO an hour for instruc-
ton in its sacred code; who meet over
card tables at 8 o'clock in the morning,
hurry up their marketing and hush up
their children in order to attend whist
luncheons at !, come home again with
vexed and wearied brains to sit silent
at dinner, absorbed in regrets for leads
unreturned and signals unanswered,
and wind up the unregenerate day by
lingering over a whist table until mid
night?"
The extent to which the temperance
agitation has prevailed in railroad SER
vice is shown by the comments of rail-
road managers on a bill in the Mime
sofa Legislature. The bill, If enacted,
would render a railroad company liable
to a fine if it did not discharge an en-
ploye in the train department who was
known to have been intoxicated. The
only objection offered to the bill by the
officers was that it was super
fluous. The Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad has a rule which is more
stringent than the proposed law. 1t
reads: THE use of intoxicating drinks
has proved most fruitful source Of
trouble to railways as well as to indi-
The company will exercise
the most rigid scrutiny in reference to
the habits of employees in this respect,
and any employee who has been dis
missed on this account will not be re-
employed. Drinking when on duty or
saloons will not be toler-
ated, and preference will be given to
those who do not drink at ALL"
Mr. Prater, of St. Louis, who has
studied the cornstalk scientifically,
thinks that within few years the far
mers of this country will be receiving
from SIS to s25 per acre for their corn
stalks. Mills will be established in the
South and other parts Of the country,
he says, and pretty nearly the whole
crop of cornstalks-at any rate, that
part of the crop which is grkwn on
farms contiguous to railway lines
will be used in the mills. The market
Tor the manufactured products is al
'eady made, as the products will be sta
pie articles in constant demand. OF
he products that may be evolved from |
he matured cornstalk-the stalk which |
las borne its grain-Mr. Prater enum-
crates cellulose, celluloid, smakeless
lacquer, cattle feed, roof |
ng material, and material that will
purpose of papier mache. |
ireen stalks, he says, are rich in glu-
,ose, and will yield "a better quality |
md a finer sugar with less expense
han can be made from the cane of
louisiana"
The Louisiana tale of the Cow Island
len which Matched out a brood of |
Dung alligators and nursed them with
mothers care finds its parallel in the
xploit of a North Carolina fowl which
las brought triumphantly forth from
er nest twelve lively young terrapins,
Which look up to her with flial respect
nd tenderness. 1t is a new demon
tration of the composure of that use
I'll domestic bird, and the breadth of its
maternal sympathies, that it takes up
Is family duties without the smallest
oxen of surprise and leads the brood
bout as TRANQUILITY as if it consisted of
eeping young Dorkings or buff Coch-
rs. They will, of course, part com
any as soon as the young reptiles gain
experience and access to water, but
hey will carry with them the privilege
I pointing with peculiar pride to at
EAST one branch of their ancestry.
When they reach the goal appointed
all conscientious terrapin, that is, the
Lewing pan, hint of chickens may
over about it, mingling with their
wn fragrances commemoration of the
North Carolina hen which
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