The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-01

! The constitutions Of tweuty-sight Of
the states Of the union recognize the ex-
istsnce Of God.
1t is said that the pay OF a regular
soldier in China amounts to about a cent
and half per day.
VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt succeeds his father
as president Of the Hartford and New
Haven railroad.
Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens is very i'll
again, having had a bemOrrhags Of the
lungs.
One hundred and twenty whites and
thirty eolored applicants were supplied
in one day last week at the soup-house
for the Posr in Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. Turner, United States minister to
Liberia, says that his residence there has
confirmed him in the conviction that the
American negro can live in no country
half 50 well as in the United'States.
A bill has been introduced into the
New York legislature authorizing all
females above itWenty-one years Of age.
resident of any incorporated village. they
being owners of property therein, to vote
upon all questions of raising money BY
tax in such village.
Mrs. Julia Gardner Tyler, the widow
of the late President Tyler, is residing at
" Sherwood Forest, " on the James river,
the old ante-BsjlDcm plantation homestead
of the ex-president, where she dispenses
her Inequalities like q true virgin
matrOn.
The best Patronized restaurants in st.
Louis is the free soup house. The bread
is good, the beef is excellent and we'll
cooked, and the soup is delicious. The
women and the best behaved men eat in
one building, but ragged and dirty males
are sent to the Rabbit Houas," which
gets far the most patronage; and one
hundred and twenty-five families are
supplied with one meal q day. Some of
these people are worthy but unfortunate,
and the stories of their suffering are pain
fully pathetic. There are two sides to
the question whether worthy and indus
trious people who are out of work or I'M
able to work on account of sickness should
be comfortably cared for, and in their
own homes if they have homes. A pub
lie kitchen which should sell wholesome
and well-ooOked plain food at cost would
be one of the most serviceable forms Of
charity.
The reality Of the danger Of animals
of economic value-such as the elephant,
which supplies US with ivory, the seals
that furnish fur, and the whales, which
yield US animal Oil-may be so indiseEfuE-
inately slaughtered as to render the spe-
cies in each case extinct, is illustrated by
the example of the zebra. There Is no
good rsasOnSt0 believe the true zebra has
become extinct in Africa within the last
twenty-five years. In saying this to the
British association for the advancement
of science, at its last meeting, Prot.
Alfred Newton declared it to be proba-
bly, the first instance OF tOtaqextinction
of a large terrestrial MANNED since geOlOg-
ical times. Perhaps the zebra has no
value; but, if 50, how much
more likely is it that these creatures
which profits man to kill will eventually
be swept from of the earth. This ad-
dress by Prof Newton on the sxtirpatiOn
of species has attracted widespread no
tice and favorable comment.
The composition Of atmospheric dust
that which pertains to our houses our
public buildings our Payements, dc
presents, On analysis, a remarkable fact,
namely, that ineveTy pinch Of such dust
one thing is invariably found; this is
starch. No object. it is said, Is more IA
miliar to the micoscOpist than the grain
Of starch; it issOmetimes oval, Sometimes
spherical, and varies in size, the addition
IF little iodine giving il q blue color,
which disappears under the influence Of
light. There seems to be no difference,
1.-THE, between the starch grains found
IA thedusto of EgyPtian.tombs and Roman
emples and that found in the dining-Eo0m
# tO-day-they both resORd 10 chemical
md physical tests in the same way. Bat
here is a still more curious fact, in this