The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-03-29
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

that bank of England notes. good IS they
are all over the world, are not legal
tender either in Scotland or Ireand. In
Ireland they are not allowed to circulate
at all. The moment they reach the
Irish banks they are cut in two, and re.
turned weekly to the bank of England,
to be exchanged either for geld or Irish
notes. On the other hand sn Irish or a
Scotch bank nste j. as rare sight In
England as Chinese ambassador.
During my eighteen years of English
life / nave never once seen Scotch
note, and only ence an Irish one"
TIE st. Louis Democrat has printed
several useful articles on the subject of
cheap school books. ii alleges that ez-
erbitant prices are now charged for the
most ordinary books, and instances in
particular the common primer. The
price for which this book sells is twenty
five cents; the estimated cost of it to the
publisher is little over six cents. Nhe
writer puts the number of primers an
nually sold in this country at 100000,
which cost the people $5,0OO,O00, and
bring the publishers in a profit of $780,
600. The lightning calculator has for
gotten one important item he has made
no allowance for the proportion Of profit
that annually finds its way into the
pockets of school boards and school
directors.
N
announcing deaths by what looks lii
flaming advertisement stretching some
times entirely across wide double
column newspaper. The following is
literal translation OF one of those an
nouncemerts made in an Augsburg
Allgemeine Xeitung one day last month,
but the whole is made to look precisely
like business advertisement Death
Notice. 1thas pleased Almighty God
our beloved husband, father, grand
father, brother and father-in-law, the
illustrious count MQriz 'zu Bentheim-
Teklenherg Rheda, commander and
Knight Of high orders, on the 9th Of
vi IiliS lpuI " SiDCh III Liz
afternoon, in this eighteenth year, to
summon into eternity. For silent |
sympathy begging, we this maurnful !
intelligence to all relatives and friends !
send. The BEREAyED ONES.
The Mofussilite, one of the brightest |
newspapers published in India, SAYS of
the cotton interests in the south This,
be it borne in mind, is tho result of .
American enterprise within the last few
years, for hardly over half dozen years
ago the southern states lay bleeding and
exhausted, at which time many thought
II would take at least Il generation to
enable America to regain her former
position. AT that very time India had
exported .f30,O00,000 worth OF cotton
one year, while sad to relate it only
equals about half that amount at
present SO does not common sense tell
as that America threatens, at no verv
remote date, to absorb the whole of the
cotton trade, and India will be shut out
from one of the most important branches
of commerce?
THERE is much that is strange in the
blue glass the0ry-for instance the con.
junction of opposite electricities, the
expansion of the molecules of the glass,
and the generation OF currents of electro.
magnetism. Another strange thing is
the occult relation existing between the
number of miracles wrought and the
business enterprise of the glass dealers.
The remedial action depends quite as
much upon the number of squares taken
by the vitreous advertisers in the local
papers as upon the number or size of the
panes. In Providence blue glass is work
ing we'll. A book-keeper who had been t
tortured with rheumatism for several
years inserted six panes of blue glaze in
his Office windows, exposed his foot, arm !.
and shoulder to the light, and within 9
hours was cured. An elderly q
lady whose left knee, ankle and foot !
were swollen to twice their natural size, !
bathed in blue light, and in three, q uarters !
Of an hour the soreness and Inflammation 3
disappeared. An old gentleman whose q
right foot has been useless for year is J
slowly recovering behind three mazarine !
paaes. The wife Of prominent manu- {
Iacturer who has been afflicted with =
paralysis and unable TO walk for three :
years, was carried down stairs to the |;
E'arler and immersed in blue light. In t
the course of an hour or two the family a
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