New-York tribune., 1898-01-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

To be IN the swim in certain parts Of Maine. 1t is
necessary 20 be member Of what called
"fresh-pork clubs" These clubs. It appears, are
cooperative organizations for killing hogs and
keeping the members supplied with fresh pork for
the season The social and sanitary advantages of
membership in a fresh-pork club are many AS Is
well known to all Americans who have lived In the
country the pig-kilng time begins in September
and continues at intervals until the holidays. BY
ioning a club a family proong the fresh-pork
season for months the pork OF each slaughter Is
divided among the members. But this Is not the
only advantage of membership A local paper says
that fresh pork clubs have become so important
in many communities that weddings and social
entertainments arranged so that they may
come off in pig-killing time"
A couple of interesting relics in the posses;
them and that which Mr.. Turner prizes propaDy
as much as anyheo ineo he owNs Is orx rS
Del from 1857 until torn down In 1894 ana when .nn
Swe %Ss tns eo6ss mOs 0 for rs hundred or more years The
bricks OF which the old house was cohstLuc'ei L Ell
bricks of that time yellow in color. The relic
Mr. Turner has. and which. by the way Is one Oh
and barring Of rs is ssny g T4meea sad ease
rhn other relic is quaint old Revolutionary
sword carried and used with deadly effect by Cap
tain cunda MIS- Turner'S s
Inquirer.
Tho fire losses in the United States last year were
900 less than in 1895 and 100000 less than In
1896 The dminuticn is accompanied with down
ward tendency In the rates for Insurance ana
shows. among other things. that the pernicious
activity OF the frebug has at last in some measure
been repressed
Willing to Be Engaged.-Lady oo applicant for
p'AIgii p'AAppiicantE ESaythur. mum: It's lone wildly
ookn' for engagement that Oi DO oe'-'Chicaso
Daily News.
The exhumaton of the bodies Of voltaire and
Rousseau has interested number OF French SCI
ent,sts NJ Munary the anthropologist after
making certain measurements, expresses some
doubt that the owners of two such skulls couId
really have been great men" He describes inc
philosopher Of Ferney as 'dolichocephaious' OF
long headed while he brands the author OF con-
fessions" as neutrality-suspicious., or short-headed
.'The first owed his characteristics. says journal
in commenting on NJ Muffary's observations 10
his parislan birth and bourgeois origin while the
second as a Swiss and a plebeian, could hardy
have a decent Uranium That they hated one an
other in life was due apparently to the weH-kncwn
hostility that has always existed between doicho-
cepha!ic and brachycephalic organizations
Anothct Freak.-"That young man Of yours a,,n
a the o6seryng pseMo as spny nly for Job IN
u'''1y "yhv father" exclaimed the young lady in
tones OF INDIGNATION. what do you mean! ,
'0''p ~ noticed When passed through the hall late
last night" answered the od man; ;ao tae "' Daiv nI
two heads upon his shoulders. -tChicdBo ba's
News.
To nrovs the importance OF keeping the drinking
fountains for horses open in winter we'll
summer "Our Dumb Animals stationed a man
near the Dorothea l.. Dix fountain, custom House
Square Boston, on December IA. cold day The
man counted 5S3 horses which drank there on that
dav This may serve as Il hint to some New-York
phllanthropist. There are far TOO lie" Drinking
places for horses IN this city
There is n considerable movement on foot In MI
waukce now to try to get the United states 10
pav for the annual dredging or the thiee rivers
which constitute this harbor, ana also 10 inuuce
making n deeper channel, so that the largest lake
steamers and those drawing me most water may may
come to Milwaukee docks without ~, lupnihs n sntil
kenls on the river bed. This movement Is reflex
Of the talk in Chicago about fver lar and narDor I'm,
proyements at that port Since II mas become more
GENERALLY known that the GoVernmSi.t anu not ,t une
munclpatHes,, PAY 'o bubble men in Milwaukee are
,rving TO get the Government 70 DO as nuch Tor
,is @ ys cnS ont a good deal of money each year for
SrcarH Sge which II would save If We had the pull in
Nn,nhn Nin,,h T. Rucs and the S,arke Dredge and Dock
Hornppary HHO'pn aid the dredging in Milwaukee during
1891 The price was G9rts rivers and "a cents
~ ,'nrd in the Milwaukee River. The cost or dTeus-
ing each Of tne s1 $50 SysFS 81 Knncknne Ss 81 Me-
nominee, ST. $50 ss.-(Mwaukee Evening wisconsin
In view OF the figures for recent years OF oi''n
~ lca.hs I'm France. showing that deaths nave
exceeded births In numbers, and that 'he popua-
ton has been diminishing the statistics ior ie'o
ht,h hove inst been made public. nave been
oval,ed with great interest. The births IN that
,ear exceeded the deaths by the respectable hsure
Of $1,000 The gain is accounted FOR not ohiy oy
decrease In the deaths-that Is. proiongauoh oil
ufe-but principally by considerable Increase In
tho number Of births. Nevertheless the hrth rate.
% net 600 Is the smallest In any civilized nation
of the earth The average birth rate OF Europe Is
% nerIOo The situation In France Is so arming
that the pubcists are fain to accept as satlsfac-
tory the same ngurcs. about. that troubled them
20 much In ls9l-that is. IA total number or births
OF si5Si compared with s66.3i7 In that year
q
Here's a brilliant newspaper man gone Srazy'
"'Ihe trouble dates back to the Japo-Chinese
war He rot through the awful mess or proper
names In that. but then came the Greco Iurkish
war and now the Eastern affair with all the big
Poweri mixed up and he's become jabberins
idiot philadelphia North American.