The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-07-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

There are no Russian missionaries
in the Celestial Empire, nor are any
permitted there by the Russian gov
eminent.
The School Board of Holyoke, Mass,
has decided to employ only married
men as principals, believing that bet
ter results can be attained.
Municipal government viii be taught
in the public schools of san Francisco.
\ miniature city government viii be
run in all its departments.
Chicago comes pretty near being one
half of the State of Illinois, for out of
the S4.0J9,0O0 paid into the State tax
fund Cook County contributes SlG10,-
GOO
Bank note and general Autograph
ing work has reached a high degree Of
perfection in intricacy of design III
late years, and while counterfeitng
has not been stopped the difficulties
have been greatly increased.
You are lucky to be alive. One quar-
ter of the people die before they are
six years old, one-half die before they
reach the age of sixteen. and only one
in every 100 persons born ever reaches
the age of sixty-fve.
A Wiesbaden landlord brought an
action in the Oberlandergericht 'the
Court of Appeals for damages caused
to his property by feas, alleged to nave
been introduced into the building by
the tenants Newfoundland dog.
The Spanish-American war and the
British-Boer war have given the world
popular lessons in the geography OF
the West Indies. the Philippines and
South Africa. 1t now looks as If the
next series of geographical studies
will be concerning China.
The value of the mineral and metal
production of the United States for
1899. according to the Engineering and
Mining Journal. was no less than ST.
1850. S30-an increase of nearly 40
per cent. over the output for the pre-
vious calendar year.
A Kansas man has discovered way
to grow seedless watermelons. Now
if he can only point the way to pro
ducing waterless stock, whether
of the animate or inanimate variety
he will have accomplished something
that ought to send his name down to
posterity in a halo Of glory.
Women who write to the papers to
know if they have the right to abstract
money from their husbands pockets
while the husbands sleep, can copy the
conduct of the Hackensack woman, II
they have any doubts. She cloroform-
ed her husband and took all the money
he had.
Quite the latest proposition TO en-
large the sphere of usefulness OF the
street railway. is that of the Chicago
Alderman, who suggests that the city
garbage be hauled by the cars between
the hours Of midnight and a. m.
There are thirty-ive stations from
which the garbage would have to be
collected and delivered to the crema-
tory or dumps.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has held that it is the duty OF those IN
charge of a moving car TO stop It ana
take a child who is stealing ride
either inside the car. or else TO stop the
car and put him off. In the case in
point the company was held liable for
injury to a child who was riding on
the step. who. On being frightened by
the conductor, fell off and was i'll
jured.
The New Orleans City Council pro-
poses to use kerosene in killing off the
mosquitoes. All citizens are required
to sprinkle their vaults, drains and
cisterns with the oil, under a penalty
of 81 for failing to do so. The remedy
is said to be effective in a high de
gree. but where used so extensively 1t
is possible the cure would be worse
than the disease.
The Countess Of Warwick has Gre
ated something of a sensation by an
article on the worship of mammon in
English society. The strange part OF it
is why she should elect TO denounce
England for being eminenuy human
and keeping race with the times. Eng
lands greed has never been doubted.
Her sons and daughters are expected
70 have inherited in some measure this
love of mammon, and a presentation
of facts should not have been so start