The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-29

1918, oV,UUU,VUU IcLC6TS were uUuellV0TSu
in 1901, and Of &c, OOO, 900 of these even
the senders could not be traced.
The American and English although
they consume twice as much sugar as
the French and Germans, have much
better teeth. The American dentist.
however ranks first in all countries.
The number Of persons carried daily
by the elevated trains in New YorE
City now averages about 100000. They
travel on the average about four miles,
so that the average fare is about a
| cent mile.
Tourists in Egypt will soon be able
to cross the Sahara desert in a four
miles-an-hour automobile specially
constructed for travelling over sandy
/. wastes. The vehicle IS to accommo-
date 40 passengers. While the speed
seems slow it is greater than that OF
camel transportation. ii,
DIR. Frederick p. Henry, Honorary
Librarian of the College of Physicians
in Philadelphia, says that corporation
owns the second largest medical IL
brary in the world The largest is the
Surgeon Generals collection in Wash
ington. The Philadelphia library was
begun in 1888 by gift of twenty-four
volumes from DR.. John Morgan, the
founder of the medical department of
the University of Pennsylvania. 1t
now contains 67,243 volumes.
Kansas has been in trouble with
weeds, and one of the most fantastic
stories on record is told by the Kansas
City Journal, which says that the Pros
sa Branch Railroad has almost gone
out of business because of them. The
weeds grew on the roadbed in luxur-
ious style, and as section hands could
not be hired, the weeds grew over the
rails. The wheels of the engine
crushed these weeds and made the rails
SO slippery that it took the train two
hours to go seven miles.
1t is said that an agency is about to
be formed in England for the purpose
of buying high class cats for America.
This, comments an American cattarian,
would no doubt be an excellent thing,
but it will be diifScult to secure reliable
buyers. There is no CANCER that Eng
hsh breeders VIII not offer their best
stock to America, but they are more
than likely to ask extortionate prices.
First class prices for second and third
class stock, are, id seems, quite the
rule for such transactions.
Educational gatherings are SO, COM
mon in the United States that they dc
not attract special uotice 1t is differ
emit i'm England, where an Allied Col
oniaI Conference recently aroused the
greatest interest, the object being to-
encourage original research in IUacti-
~, Io
the, colonies, and thus improve techni-
cal education. The special interest
in the conference arose, no doubt, from
the feeling expressed by some of the
representatives, that England is be-
hind the United States and Germany in
such matters, and should take steps; to
bring herself abreast of them.
Brigandage in the Caucasus is Said
to- be developing into veritable reign
of terror. The Russian papers con-
tain a long list Of ambuscades and
counter ambuscades by banditti and
gendarmeS, In several cases accOnpan-
led by serious loss of life. Nonad
families encamped in the steppes with
their cattle have lost their stock or
their lives in defending their property.
Paymasters taking wages to- men on
the Caucasian railway have been at
tackled, and in one case a populous
village, that Of Zalykbly, was openly
attacked, four persons being killed and
about dozen injured. At Tiflis and
at Baku the forcible abduction of
young girls even in the streets has be-
come so common that wealthy families
never allow their daughters to go out
without the protection of an armed
male attendant.
Queen Amelia of Portugal has taken
her degree Of M. D., and is now the
chief physician of her husband, King
Ctcr1<r o0<J +ba;v> ohi1droy Tho r,,oap,c