St. Landry democrat., 1892-10-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


| skins. 1t is not surprising, therefore,
that large number of people in Australi;
find rabbit killing more profitable thar
farming. The skins, which are bought
up i'll bulk in London by the hat manu-,
facturcrs, are turned over to operators
who pluck off the pelt by hand, no suit
able machinery for the purpose having
yet been invented A fine blue fur is
then left on the pelt. The skin is then
pared away from the fur by machinery
SO delicate that when the last particle is
cut off the fur sometimes hangs in one
tilmy section. This is worked up into
felt. The English rabbit supplies the
best fur, then comes the New Zealand
rabbit and then the Australian.
ANY person who has had occasion
critically to examine the law reports of
the several States as they are published
will be surprised, the New York Sun
thinks, at the harmony and uniformity in
the rulings of the courts rather than at
the diversity Of the views judicially cx-
pressed. The certainty of the law as
administered in forty-four different
States under forty-four different judicial
systems is much more remarkable than
the uncertainty. But considerable di-
versity of opinion is undoubtedly some
times developed. Thus we find in the
June number of the American Digest,
upon the same page, references 10 two
decisions, one in Georgia and another
in Missouri, which it is rather difficult
to reconcile with one another. In the
Georgia case, which was a criminal
prosecution, the counsel for the State in
his argument to the jury told them that
they knew the defendant as we'll as he
did, and that one of the defendants
witnesses in testifying had lied from
stem to stern This freedom of Ian
guage was held not to be sufficient
ground for a new trial. In the Missouri
case a new trial was granted because the
prosecuting attorney told the jury the
defendant was "a sugar-l oafed, squirrel
headed Dutchman."
ga LADY of fine artistic taste has dis
covered remarks the London Graphic.
THAT at church parade her prayer book,
by its incongruous color, entirely ruined
the effect of a carefully conceived cos
tune. 1t struck discord in an other
wise perfectly harmonious dress. This
has been rcmedied by having a cover to
her prayer-book which shall be perfectly
in accord with the leading tone of her
garments. The prayer-book cover will
henceforth receive as attentive consider
alton as the bonnet, the gloves, and the
sunshade, and no Earring note of color
will be introduced by means of volume
bound in blue velvet or in scarlet morocco.
If this rule be applied to every day gar
ments and to any volume that lady
may feel inclined to read, the business in
fancy book-covers can not fail to be ex-
tensive. For it is easy enough to
imagine that the most artistic arrange
ment of color may be at once ruined by
its wearer happening to take in hand
some garishly bedizened novel of to-
day
THEY were gallant cadets who jumped
from the deck of the Constellation and
saved three lives, those of mother and
her two children who were being swept
out to sea in the tide at jamestown,
r. |. The names of the cadets are W. S.
Montgomery, n. Mansfield, W. II.
Standley and F. n Freeman. Their
brave act has been officially reported to
the Navy Department. 1t may be pre-
sumed that they will receive, besides the
appreciation of their superior officers,
the medal of the Humane Society be-
slowed in recognition OF brave deeds in
saving life. The medal of the Humane
Society is no mean decoration for any
officer in the naval service to win and
wear alongside of whatever medals or
crosses he may achieve for proves in
battle. But more precious than medals
IS the reflection that such deeds COM
mand universal applause and admiration
IT Is often said that if white people
could live most of the time in the open
air, like the Indians, they would never
have consumption; and, in fact, certain
physicians attempt to cure consumption
by keeping their patients outdoors nearly
all the time. But Dr. A. B. Holder, of
Memphis, Tenn, now comes forward
with statistics to show that the Indian is
peculiarly subject to pulmonary diseases.
Reports which he secured from the
Indians of Yankton and Sisseton, Oak:
Devils Lake, Oak. Green Bay, Wis;
Tulalip, Wash. Standing Rock, Oak.
Lower Brule, Oak. Usage, I. T. ; Crow
Creek, Oak. ; Cheyenne River, Oak, and
Western Shoshone, New, all teemed with
data as to the fatal ravages of consump-
ton. Of 1853 deaths from all diseases
in 1888, 514 were from consumption
alone.
F. J. SCHoRNERHoRN, the geologist
and mineralogist, who is working in the
interest of Idaho's exhibit at the Worlds
Fair, said he had discovered an immense
glacial field in central Idaho beneath
which lie series of glacial lakes. The
field probably covers an area nearly as
great, though not as thick, as the great
glacial field of the Alps. He had ex-
amined sixteen terminal moraines, eleven
of which were receding, four were station
AIRY, and one was advancing. None of
them extended more than 1900 feet
below the snow line. The glaciers are
located about twenty-five miles southwest
of Shoup amid number of high peaks
not down on the maps.
Mr.. CHARLES F. LUMMIs says, in an
article on THE Indian Who is not Poor
in Scribner: "The Pueblo, the most
ethnologic figure in our America
to-day, is emphatically an Indian who is
not poor from any point of view. Ply
sically, mentally, morally, socially, polit
ically, he need not shun comparison with
the average of his lately acquired coun-
trymen; and he even affords luxuries to
which the superior race has not yet riscn