The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-05-26
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"a few swallows of book beer makes
man feel like spring" And few more
make him feel quite fall-llke,
Last year Chicago girl took q
header from her bicycle, and was pick
ed up by young doctor who married
her the other day. We predict that BIZ
cycle accidents this year will be more
numerous than usual
A Nebraska legislator has introduced
bill making it a mlsdemeanor Tor
any citizen to have in his possession
ds&S of cards with more than four
aces or kings in It. In many sections
of the West this is capital offense
which calls for a funeral, and Nebras-
ka shows marked forbearance in re-
fuslng to make it at least a felony.
Some interesting facts have been
published respecting the teetotal col
liery village of Roe Green, in Lanca-
shire, England. Twenty-Five years ago
the houses of the village belonged al
most exclusively to the Bridgewater
trustees, who employ most of the men,
To-day out of 14O houses, eighty-one
are inhabited by their owners. The
Rechabite Tent has membership OF
27O; the Band of Hope, 2S5.
The Rev. DR.. Mayo declared the
other day that "the sixteen Southern
States are to-day paying as much for
the public schools as the British Par
lament votes every year for the public
school system of the British Islands
between s2O,OOO,0OO and 100000 900"
And he adds that since the war the
South has expended $3.50, 100000 of its
own money for education-$75 100000
of it for the children of the colored
people.
The City of Paris has a wonderful
system for teaching her mendicants
the nobility of labor. The municipal
ty maintains extensive establishments
where the poor are permitted to earn
by congenial labor all the comforts of
a model home, The city not only en-
ables them to earn food and shelter in
uOltS mat ltBl CoEnL INC lliSlitSb ~ ~
of cleanliness and sanitation, but she
strips each unfortunate Of his rags
and tatters and puts him in clean raj
ment.
The London Relief Fund for the |
starving people of India now amounts |
to more than $2,000,000, but large as
that sum is, it will hardly suffice for /
the work that is to be performed. The
most gratifying feature of it is that /
the sum is great enough to show that 4
sympathy has been awakened in Eng /
land for the condition Of the people /
in India, and as a consequence it is .
reasonable to expect that the govern
ment will be compelled to undertake
reforms which will go far toward re-
moving the cause of famines in the fu-
ture.
In trying to make point against
a member of the Ethno-
Society in Paris read pa
per before that body a short time
ago in which he insisted that cannibals
are exceedingly strong and vigorous,
far exceeding in strength those tribes
not addicted to such food. He said
that the sayages who abstained from
human food rarely ate meat of any
kind and were a puny lot The most
curious part of his argument was that
the flesh of women was much more
1igestibe and far more nutritious than
that of men; many tribes recognize
he fact and eat only women, until the
supply gives out.
There is but one genuinely live town
n the West says A. w. Lyman, of
Helena, Mont, "and that Is Butte. The
Anaconda copper mines, that vast con-
,ern which makes a profit of from S. {
100000 to S6,000,000 year, explains
he status there. 1t is employing more
men and has bigger payroll than ever
before, and its employees get the high {
st rate of wages paid anywhere. No
wonder that Butte is prosperous, for
where several thousand men get steady q
work and high pay there can be no !
tagnation. Life is never stagnant in .
he big copper camp. The street cars
un all night and likewise the saloons, !
nd if man wants a shave at 2.30 a.
H., he will find several barber shops
pen.
The Overland Telegraph Line, which !!
onnects England with her great In !
ian Empire, passes through Persia,
nd has recently been subjected to an
Interruption of serious character, due
0 the fanaticism of the populace. II
GEMS that there has been terrible .
routh, which the subjects Of the Shah, &
nstead of attributing to Providence,
scribed on the contrary to the tele- L
raph poles, and, above ALL to the o
osts and signs of the survey depart Il
lent of the company. Accordingly all t
lie obnoxious poles, wires and survey h
gns were destroyed by a priest-led n
lob. Strangely enough, heavy rain il
I'll Immediately afterwards, and now. e
spite OF the severe punishment in Il
icted by the Teheran Government v
pom the ring-leaders, the masses of k
re population throughout Persia are &
rmly convinced that telegraph and D
lrvey posts are productive of drouth il
nd inventions of the devil. d
OF the fourteen reputed centenarians Il
no died during the past year, no few
than eleven were women, says the it
Illustrated London News Out of the it
he hundred and lightweight persons tc
no were declared as over ninety years VI