The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-02-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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post office robber alive now in order
to get the reward.
President George Falcon, of the Ohio
Fish and Game Commission, says that
the supply of fish in Lake Erie will he
exhausted in two or three years unless
the existing laws regulating the catch
are quickly revised and thoroughly en-
forced.
Taking the suggestion from a Ger
man scientific journal, which recently
pointed out the advantage of elephants
as beasts of burden even in European
cities, the Comite de Elephant has
Just been formed in Paris for the pur-
pose of preventing the killing of ele-
plants for sport. Next summer num-
Der of elephants will be employed as
beasts of burden in Marseilles, where
the winters are milder than they are
in Paris.
Benton Wilson has been liberated
from a Washington State penitentiary
on pardon. after having served two
years VI IL lODS sCliltliN0 tAittt ~ ''N'N.
received on a confession of murder,
which he had made to shield his faith
en- The two were charged two years
ago with the murder of Benton VIII
sons brother in-law, and the father
being tried first and the prospect being
dark for him, his son got up and con-
fessed that he did the killing.
BY the increase in the French army
many men are withdrawn from other
employment, with the result that the
vacancies thus made are largely filed
by women, and the prediction is ven
tured that if the folly of ornaments
goes on increasing France will be
come, owing TO its stationary popula-
ton, a nation of women-supported men.
However. as living becomes more eX-
pensive the competition Of women in
nearly every profession becomes
keener.
Californians contemplate erecting in
Washington, at the time of the inaugu-
ration of the new President, an elabo-
rate ctrous arch, its prime object being
to advertise their States agricultural
productions. The arch is to be of red
wood, and the design provides that
the columns, four in number, shall
be completely envel0ped by oranges
and lemons. The bases are to be faced
with California onyx and marble. The
whole is to be lighted at night by in
candescent lamps.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union intends to erect National Tenn
perance Hospital in Chicago. One OF
its promoters says: I'VE shall show
the doctors who think that in some
cases the administering OF alcohol is an
absolute necessity to save a patient $
life that they are utterly mistaken, and
before our work in the new field is Il
year old we can present facts in the
shape of cured patients which viii
change the mind of many a physician,
no matter how hidebound he may be
in his prejudices.'
In 1897 there will be six State cleo
tions, five of which will give some i'll
dication of how the country feels about
the new administration. The first is
in Rhode Island on April 7. The five
others are in the fall. On Nov. 2 Mas
sachusetts, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia,
representing in a way important see
| tons of the Union, hold elections for
all State offices, and on Nov. 8 New
! York elects a Judge OF the Court of
| Appeals and members of the Assem-
! bly,. On the same day the Greater New
York will choose its first government
under the new charter.
Thirty thousand elk are wintering in
the Jackson's Hole country of Wyom-
ing, according to the estimate of the
game warden, who says Jtnat in one
herd which he saw theIother morning
there were $4,000 of them, stretching
| over Il distance Of six miles. The sight,
he said, SURPRISED anything he had ever
seen and utterly amazed him. The
| elks' Trail over the snow was like flint
| icey Ne said, so hard had the snow been
| ,Hacked down. The animals are seen
| by luOuSdnuS any IoIuiuS, juON lIS5
along the Snake River from the Great
Swamp to the Gros-Ventre hills, and
at night Uhe walls of the calves stray
ing from their mothers may be heard.
The Charleston News and Courier
says: professor J. w. Homan, of the
| State Colored College of South Caro-
| lima, is the first colored man TO intro
duce among his people of the South
the science Of dairying and agricultural
biology. He is introducing a line Of
industry among his people in the South
that will make his work felt not only by
the colored people but by bolh races.
Professor Hoffman is said to be a
very competent man. and has a great
field of usefulness before him in his
college work. The Booker Washing
ton idea of making the colorcd people
self supporting and self-reSpectins is
worth all the empty political privileges
aad positions that could be conferred
upon them. What they need is TO be
tra inpd So that thpV can WORK :bpi