The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1900-06-07
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Music is the food of love. but three
| course dinners, if well-cooked and we'll
served, are very tolerable substitute.
The dogs of Chicago through the reg
ular tax and pound fees contribute
$1,000 a year more to the city treasury
than the street cars.
Ohio has had thirty-eight Governors,
only thirteen of whom were born in
the State. She has had five Presidents,
four of whom were born in that State.
American cotton goods are driving
out all competitors in Manchuria and
the northern provinces of China. They
are lower In price and higher in quail
ity.
Another British concession made to
Ireland is that the red half-penny post
age stamp shall hereafter be green.
The change has the merit of not cost
ing anything.
The English language marches on
steadily. A newspaper conducted by
Americans has been started in Bang
kok, Siam, and twelve of the thirty
six printing offices in the city use Eng
lish type.
Professor Martin Hartmann of Ber-
lin has written a book in which he
points out noticeable intellectual
renaissance in the Mohammedan world,
as indicated in the increasing number
and circulation of Arabic newspapers.
A Texas tornado picked up girl,
carried her quarter of mile and put
her down again without scratch. 1t
| Is things like this which have caused
people out there to use the expression
las gentle as cyclone"
OF course, it Is not generally known,
but it is fact all the same, that the
government owns many thousands of
acres of land In New Mexico that have
never been taken up. 1t is the finest
country in the world for stock raising.
1t is said a new lumber syndicate
has been organized for the purpose OF
cutting into lumber the timber on $780,
600 acres of land in Alabama. OF
course we must have lumber, but there
would be nothing wrong in compelling
that company, as we'll as all others. to
plant a tree for every one destroyed.
A Russian editor was sent to prison
short time ago for saying that he
had good thing in hand, but he doubt
ed if it would meet with the approval
of the press censor, and he, according
ly, had decided to suppress it. This
was construed into an offence against
his majesty, and he went to Jail for it.
1t may not be generally understood,
but it is none the less valuable
fact, that by sending worn and filthy
currency to the treasury at Washing
ton any bank or individual can have
it exchanged for new and crisp bills.
OF course, the individual, himself
can not be expected to do this, but it
does seem that the banks should watch
the matter and keep the public sup
piled with clean and healthy paper
money.
A member of the Chicago School
Board wants to have the Czech Ian
guage taught in all public schools
where 80 per cent. of the children are
of Bohemian parentage. This sugges-
ton has reused an Irish member of the
Board. who advocates the teaching of
the ancient Irish language on the
ground that in many schools more
than 80 per cent of the children are
Irish.
Many new things come out Of Alaska.
J One of the recent novel stories is to the
effect that one Martin Sievert, a MUIR
derer at Lituya bay, asked to be
lynched rather than await the laws
slow process and actually signed a
statement expressing entire satisfac-
ton with the proposed mode of eXecu-
ton" He was thereupon lynched with
neatness and dispatch.
According to the Electrician, an in
ventor named NJ. A. DufOur has dis
covered a method to melt quartz and
utilize it for many of the purposes for
which glass is now employed. AS
quartz evolves no gases at the melting
point. which glass does, and as it is
as transparent as glass after passing
through the process, it is believed that
it can be used adyantageously as a sub
stitute in the manufacture OF mean
descent lamps.