The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-10-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

. lin the United States there .
about sixteen million cows-one :
every four persons.
-Housekecpers know ssbone]ess 80
: nsn, and now member of the Unit.
states fish commission announces Tn,
the ooneless shad is in process of .ev,
iution and well advanced toward CON
Pieuon. He does not lose his bones
.no same way as the cod, to-wit. att
ing. s anu oros
-ihe largest pumping engine eve
made In this country has inst bee
placed at the PHILADELPHIA waterworlrs
1t weighs nine hundred and fiftv thr,,,
sand pounds, is thirty-five feet hich
ana occupies floor space of thirty 5,
Iorty feet Twenty million gallons q
water are pumped every twenty fou
-Philadelphia has six day nurser;e,
where working women with children
ranging from three months to eirh,
years OF age can leave them from s.ao
In the morning until $50 at nicbt
Anree meals and ample amusements
are given. costing the mother six cents
DAY. These institutions are support
ed by voluntary contributions. Other
cities have them on much the same
plan.
The Washington state building NJ
the worlds fair will show to some ex.
TENT the forest resources of the state
Inc foundation alone will contain III
logs, some of them 100 feet long and "a
inches in diameter at the small end
Ihe superstructure of the building will
contain, besides heavy timber, fine fin
isned woods, showing the grain and
structure OF the woods, and q complete
exhibit OF shipbuilding material.
Talking the length of the permanent
ways on the surface of the globe at
nearly sixty thousand geographical
miles, with a daily average of ten
trains, it is estimated that the total loss
by wear aud tear suffered each day bv |
the metallic rails of the earth is about |
SIX hundred tons. The six hundred
tons are lost in the form of q fine DOW
aer. and are carried back to the eorth
IN the shape of soluble iron salts.
-Director-General Davis has asked
Inc state department at Washington to
make public the following ruling re-
yarding the placarding of goods at the
exposition: Foreign exhibitors in the
Worlds Columbian exposition will h.
to state upon placards at
ached to their exhibits the prices at !.
which said products will be sold at the |
lace OF manufacture, and also the !
rices in bond and out of bond. or ex- J
luslve and inclusive of the customs
uties in Chicago.
The disappearance of the jim Fisk !,
sstaurant recalls to an old New York; .
that there were as cheap restaurants 4
New York forty years ago as now. :
the ntties there was famous cheap s,
on Chatham square. Here q
le could buy for 81 cents good slice :,
beef with potatoes and turnips For
cents more he could have plum pud- -
ng with rich sauce. Thus one oh =,
med Tor 1873 cents, the old York shil- n
,g, a wholesome and satisfying meal, n
ID not always in bad company Z,
"A late census bulletin states that \,
ere are about 1900, 900 more males i;
an females in the sixty-two and half d.
Lions OF population. In the New "
lgiand and Middle states there are ~
600 more females than males. In the h.
ith middle section, including the dis Oh
CT, the females outnumber the males CO
some 10000 While in the northern to
'tral section of the country, as far 10
st as Nebraska, the males are In the
jority by over 500. 200, in the south
trial portion this excess reaches onlv HI
nut 100000. In the western section +,
the country the predominance of tho
les is shown by a majority of over -, ~,
Edwin Ellis, some of whose famous al
tndown sheep are to be exhibited -
ms country at the coming worlds ~
, is not only great lando wner and W,
Energetic business man, but also a 90
anthropist. He has built near his a..
le in Surrey, England, an expert AM
ltal row of neat cottages for his al,
lnts, an ideal schoolhouse, and a snd
house for the people, and his .lot
ynter has a wood-carving class colr
ng the tenants. The club house 80,
provision for billiards and other 80
~. 10y uocoraeed social hall full,
s nve hundred per- the
and library of eight hundred ths
ore volumes, with numerous peri :. =
lis. pa''
N the western prairie is found and
is called the compass plant, which wert
great value to travellers. The long II no
s at the base of its stem are placed. the
at, as in plants generally, but in mucl
,ally position, and present their Give
J north and south. The peculiar NV
'nsity of the plant is attributed to have
vet that both surfaces of its leaves moth
" an equal receptivity for light meal
reas the upper surfaces of the II ce
J OF most plants are more sensitive many
ut than the lower); the leaves thus No,
70 vertical position, and point stove
and south. Travellers on dark cloth,
} are said to feel the edges of the Me
to ascertain the point of the com prone
ment
w.eneSs ~ . case recently on trial with
OF the courts in Boston testified comm
ne defendant was not drinking .oan
and only took cocktails" Judge cloth
who presided, is teetotaler. Ift
iced among the spectators well. or OF
physician. a bon vivant, and at apply
ess called him up to the bench piece
ked him to define cocktail "A and q
u, responded the doctor, sis = of thr
dipped in an emo1l;art ~vh;.L = :