The Louisiana populist., 1897-05-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

fatterer. A poor man always knows
the worlds candid opinion of him.
Figures have been compiled by D..
Ogle, OF the English Registrar-Gener-
ais department, showing that out OF
every million persons 81 men and 225
women are alive at the age of 100.
A Kentucky man buys all the horses
he can get at 81 head. He ills them,
feeds the flesh to his hogs, sells the
hides and bones, and finds 1t profitable.
Whenever he buys horse for 81 and
he can sell 1t for 50 he lets it go, other
wise it is fed to the hogs.
DR.. b. r. Brewer, OF Chicago, says
he is the rightful owner of 600 acres OF
land in the heart Of Philadelphia, the
present value Of which is about s4OO,-
100000. He remarks that if somebody
will pay over to him that $4OO,OOO,OO
he won't do a thing to anybody; but
If the money IS not Forthcoming, just
look out for law suit.
The production of bicycles in 1896
was 100000, as against 1000 in 1888.
The capital now invested Is $96,OOO,OOo.
The estimated output for the present Is
not less than 100000 wheels : The
Commissioner of Public Roads of New
Jersey asks: What better argument
for the speedy improvement OF our
roads than the necessity Of affordlng
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 tax
until he marries, and shall pay it once
d month. There is also provision to
the effect that young unmarried persons
of either sex who shall without suffici-
eht reason, reject the addresses OF
those who may aspire to their hands
and who continue contumaciously un-
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,O14, at State expense, Michigan being
next with 2,575, then California with
2,4O0, followed by Wisconsin with 1000,
Nebraska with 1906, Iowa with 1900,
and Illinois with 1,1OO. Tuition fees
are charged in only six States, the fee
in North Carolina being $50, in South
Carolina $40, in Iowa SIS, in Missouri
| $40, in Oregon $40, and in South Da-
kota So.
Your chance of being buried alive is
anywhere from to 20 in 1000, 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-
tiers, as compared to the total annual
interments, is small is obvious, but
small percentage on $4,000 annual
burials in England and Wales, on 8OO,-
900 in France and over 10000 in the
| United States will total vast aggre-
gate of unimaginable and needless sui.
fering. 1t would have been impossi'
BILE to include all the cases collected
says Mr.. Tebb, in volume of 400 pages
DR.. Franz Hartmann nimself has col
lected 700 cases, including several ir
his own district, and DR.. LIE Guern
whose work entitled Danger des In
humations" has passed through sever
al editions, has collected 2,S13 cases.
! 1t is noted as both remarkable ant
| alarming that Bombay, where the raw
ages of the plague have been vastl!
greater than in any other part of India
is the cieanest city in the country
has an excellent system of sewers ant
general sanitation, and in ordinar.
times boasts of death rate so low a
to compare fairly we'll with that o
more than one European capital. Ye
here the malady has assumed its mos
deadly form, while at Calcutta, cit,
where hygienic precautions are mostl
of the true Oriental sort-that is, en-
tirely lacking OF .Ae diseas
have been few, and those attacked b
it usually recover. The Chinese theor
of the plague is that it originates il
the ground and rises slowly from Il
killing animals of different heights on
after another as it mounts above tn
surface. The rats, they say, are tn
first victims everywhere, and then i
order come pigeons, pigs, dogs, goats
sheep, COWS, buffaloes, and finally maj
Observers have noticed, too, that wher
there are no rats the malady does nc
60. 1t has never crossed the line
Southern India where the extensiv
family of the murinae ceases and tina