The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-23

The Young Woman's club Of Long
Island City has decided that official
spinsterhood begins at the age Of %.
1t requires no Sherlock Holmes to
leduce the fact that voting majority
Of the members have not yet reached
that quafter-century mark.
The Yale News celebrated the other
day its 25th anniversary. The paper
is a daily journal, having eight senior
editors, Ia associate editors and innu-
merable "heelers," or reports in the
lower classes who are trying for posi-
tons on the editorial board.
The Swiss federal council proposes
to modify the penal code so as to per-
nit OF punishment by imprisonment Of
all persons who in public extoi or at
tempt to honor any act Of criminal in
tent or consequence. The new law is
a direct attack upon the Anarchists.
There are 40 members of the North
Dakota legislature and of them 81 are
farmers and only two are lawyers.
North Dakota's representatives in the
United States senate include one law
yer. Norwegians and their descend
ants are very largely represented in
the politics of North Dakota.
Experiments now in progress at
Woods Hole marine biological labora-
tory indicate that not only is it pos
sible to prepare an artificial sea water
in which certain marine algae can de-
velop, but it appears that many very
sensitive marine animals can also be
kept for longer or shorter periods of
time and often carry out considerable
part of their development in artificial
mixtures.
The Philadelphia Press says that it
has long been question with the
public, which supports intercollegiate
athletics in such a generous manner,
why some of the receipts from this
source are not devoted to the practical
needs of the colleges. All institutions
have funds for helping poor students,
and gifts in this way are always glad
ly accepted, but one of the most prof
liable ways by which these funds can
be enlarged is neglected.
The pearl shell fishery has ever been
one of the principal industries on the
eastern coast of the Red sea- The
most valuable shells are found at a
depth of from 16 to Is feet. Divers
rarely venture in the Red sea to a
greater depth than SO feet unless for
come very special purpose and reward
or it may be for what is known as
black coral. Last year over 5000 bags
Of mother-of -pearl shells were export
ed from the port of Jeddah alone.
The New York American remarks
that as people rise in the scale of in
telligence their wants increase. That
is not only inevitable, but to be de-
sired What seems wealth to the i'm
migrant, used to perjury in Europe
wears the aspect of degrading hard
ship to the Americanized, educated
children of the immigrant This ac-
counts for the fact that these children
have smaller families in their turn
than their parents thought it safe to
have.
A curious will is to be admitted to
probate in Alabama in short time
With her grandson and daughter, 9
Mrs. Davis was attempting to cross
Shades creek in one horse wagon
The stream was high and the horse
was drowned The remainder Of the
party drifted down stream on the
wagon body. While in this precarious
position Mrs. Davis wrote her will or
the back of her daughter Mrs. Dis
mukes, and then died from excite
ment attending the adventure. The
remainder of the party were finally
rescued The dispatch does not ex.
plain how the'will was written on Mrs
Dismucke's back, nor how the bach
will be filed, unless the lady consents
to remain on file herself.
The Gordon Memorial college was
established at Khartoum after thu
overthrow of Mahdism in the Soudar
~ +l,o hoftlo IF 0rodI1rmon r. con