The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-06-13

idea of administering music and gas at
the same time to a patient in the dental
chair. Small photographic transmtters
are placed one in each ear of the stub
ject, who drops off into pleasant dreams.
with none of the ordinary symptoms Of
distress.
Measures to secure the placing of
shower baths in the new school build
ing6 OF Chicago are now occupying the
attention of many of the women's clubs
and philanthropic societies there. 1t is
believed that their efforts will succeed,
since many of the city officials appear in
favor of the plan.
Fice-Coasul-General Fanaucr, at
Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, reports
that the railroads of Hungary, owned
and managed by the Governments COW
ering 5000 miles, earned during the last
year $43,ooo,ooo, leaving a net income
OF per cent. as compared with the net
earnings Of 1900
The statement made that with the ex-
ception OF the pumpkin and few grapes
and small fruits, a few forage plants,
grasses and native drug plants, every
crop required for the manifold needs of
diversified farming industry and
grown on commercial scale in the
United States has been introduced from
foreign countries.
A Chicago man. learning that some
stocks he had ordered his broker in
Wall Street to purchase had declined,
fell in a swOon, and upon recovering
found out that it had advanced and he
was richer by $4,000. Luck's fortune.
and this mans experience proves it.
Had he not been relieved of the strain
by swooning, he might have filled a
suicides grave.
The empire to which Victoria acceded
in 1887 covered one-siXth of the land
surface of the globe; the empire to
which King Edward has acceded covers
nearly one-fourth. 1t is ffty-three times
as big as France, fifty-two times as big
as Germany, three and a half times as
big as the United States without Alaska
and the island possessions, and three
times as big as Continental Europe
In spite of the legislation in number
Of States, the sweat shop still hourishes,
Its continued existence is largely due to
the bargain instinct of the American peo-
pie A Chicago investigator has pre-
pared tables showing the average weekly
wages of dreSsmakers, seamstresses,
pants makers and kindred workers to
be $2.4S, and their average earnings in
4 working year of thirty-one weeks to
be $1,000.
AS a means of reducing the taxes for
the maintenance of the police depart
ment of Glasgow, Scotland, it has been
proposed that fifty per cent. of the extra
rent charged by landlords of public
houses above the sums which such
houses, minus the licenses, would let for
shall be paid into the municipal treas
ury. There are many public houses in
Glasgow the rents of which are enor-
mously out of proportion to the accom-
mediation afforded, and it is argued that
the landlords ought to be made to share
their excessive profits with the city.
If the advertisement of a facial artist
in London is to be believed blush can
now be set upon the cheek of innocence
which no soap and water will remove.
1t is tattooed, and warranted to live
through even the wrinkles of pallid old
age. This beautifer is on the wrong
track. However necessitOus the blush
on certain occasions, where is the wo-
man who does not understand the adj
vantage of looking pale when the mascu-
line mind fails to show sufficient fexi-
bility upon matters peculiar to wearing
apparel or summer vacations?
Although the full census returns from
the agricultural districts of England
have not yet been compiled, it is possible
to get from them some idea of the ex-
tent of the exodus from the villages to
the towns that has been going on of
late years, and this does not appear to
have been so great as has generally been
believed. Taking Norfolk, for instance,
as a typically agricultural county, it
seems that out of I79 villages, in seven
districts, ffty-seven show an increase
of population and 100 decrease, while
two remain stationary. Striking an av-
erage, the total decrease is at the rate
of four per cent. This showing, of
course, is not at all difficult to get
course, is not at all satisfactory to the
farmer, who finds it difficult to get all
the labor he wants, but it is something