The Louisiana populist., 1898-01-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

refuse is so economically and ingeni-
ously utilized in the preparation of oils,
Clues and fertilizers, ct cetera, that
these conquests of waste realize about
one-seyenth, or fourteen per cent. OF
the total income from the fisheries.
Vegetables are now being dried like
apples and other fruit. Seven pounds
of potatoes weigh one pound when
dried, and other vegetables shrink in
weight correspondingly. Onions, car
rots and potatoes are the vegetables
used most now, but the industry will,
it is expected develop greatly.
At the very moment when govern
ment relief for the freezing and starv-
ing gold-seekers in the KlOndike reg
ion is being urgently demanded, hum
dreds of more infatuated adventures
are trying to make their way to that
land of desolation and death. The
spectacle would be irresistibly farcical
if it were not SO grimly tragic.
The outdoor life Of girls and women
of recent years is beginning to show
in statistics Consumption, once the
scourge of New England girlhood, is
found to be decreasing. The Medical
News says that the number OF deaths
of females of pulmonary diseases in
Moo jc
deaths of males by these diseases.
A Springfield (Mass.) reporter has
discovered that confirmed athletic
habits, encouraged by the example of
successive college football games in
town, have resulted in notable in
crease in the size Of the feminine hand
and foot At the Springfield glove
counter formerly the demand was for
flves and tives and half, but now
six and six and half is fair average.
The same tendency is notable in shoes.
Comment is frequently made upon
the extraordinary difference in interest
as to the north and south poles. Num-
erous explorers and expeditions have
spent life and treasure to reach the
first, while its counterpart at. the an
tipodes rarely receives mention. Par
ticular attention is attracted, there
fore, to the organization of a South
American expedition to explore the
open sea in antarctic regions. This
investigation will doubtless be full of
novel experiences and richly repay the
moving spirits by reports full of geo.
graphical discoveries and climatolOgi-
cal records.
The demand for fresh eggs and
choice poultry increases faster than
the supply. In European countries
where larger proportions Of poultry
and eggs are used than with us, the
supply is furnished not by large farms,
but by the multitude of people who
live near the cities and towns There
are thousands of suburban families in
she United States who may learn a
lesson from this. Enough strictly fresh
eggs O,lght to be raised by them for
home use. Those having a suburban
home with some land can easily raise
a soOGly number of eggs to sell in
town each year, and thus add ID their
income.
The Woman's Tribune notices with
satisfaction that the Trans s-Miss;ssippi
Exposition. to be held in Omaha. IS the
first great exposition in which the
work of women will have no separate
exhibit, but will be placed with that
of the men with no distinctive mark.
1t says women want no favors in the
| judging of their work, and do not need
to fear that their work will lack in ap-
probation OR value when regarded as
work simply, and without the thought
of sex being attached. The distinctive
work of organizations of women will
be represented in one Of the main
buildings by such associations as care
to pay the price demanded, which is
81 900 per square foot of space.
DR.. Schweninger, the medical at
tendant of Prince Bismarck, is not a
believer in up-to-date medicine nor the
up-to-date doctor, who, he says, is
surgeon, bacteriologist, electrician, an
atomist, microscopic, physicist, or
i psychologist, but very little OF the
physician. AS to the new discoveries
] of medical science, he contends that
they are either useless or old remedies
long since tried and abandoned. The
corset in the woman and the silk hat
in the man he believes to be the two
great sources of i'll health. Vaccina-
ton, he believes in to certain extent
but regards compulsory vaccination as
a piece Of useless barbarity. Cycling
he condemns and opines that the
physical advantages attending this
modern mode of locomotion are apt tc
be too dearly bought.
1t is most unfortunate, observes the
editor of the Waverley Magazine, that
our outer shell should grow old and
timeworn while the spirit within is
ever young; in order to escape unkind
remark we must act in accordance
with our appearance, and are actually
made old by public opinion. One Of
the first surprises people have as they