St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

cultivated, apparently lhuHcEcnl 10 sol
or climate, yielding in abundance twice
' that of any other grain, with much les:
labor, and susceptible Of preparation fol-
. the table in many forms. The whit,
settlers found it the food Of the Indians
and made it their own, anl for foul
centuries it has been the best known. IL
it is the cheapest and most nutritious.
Of the food supplies in the western hem
lsphere. And yet, after these centuries
of knowledge, II has not obtained great
favor IN Europe. The potato, another
plant indigenous to America. early be-
came popular European food common
20 the tables Of the rich and poor, and
=: the chief support of the poor in Ireland,
but corn. a much more nutritious food,
and quite as easily cultivated, has never
been widely adopted. Our most per
slstent missionary efforts have accom-
pllshed but little more than convincing
Europeans that our corn is good food
for animals, though Colonel Murphy
hopes for good results from his efforts of
the past few years. We who are fami-
liar from childhood with roasting ears.
mush and milk, corn bread, johnny cake,
and all the various forms Of toothsome
dishes that can be made out f Indian
corn, wonder at the supincncSs, or ri, her
obstina. y, with which people abroad
meet our recommendations of it. The
poorer people stick by their heavy and
unpalatable black bread, while the
Wealthirr classes look -,.:th disdain upon
grain they think only fit for horses
and hogs. The American aborigines re-
garded it as tho best gift of the Great
Spirit, and their folk lore abounds in
stories and legends concerning it. In
"HlaWatha' LongfcIlow repeats one of
the legends of this 'ncw gift of the
Great Spirit" One of the great results
OF the Worlds Fair will undoubtedly be
to make this golden grain more familiar
to the world and prove its value as one
OF the best of foods.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY in ENGLAND is
about to institute an examination in
agricultural science. The subjects of
examination will be botany, chemistry,
physiology and hygiene, entomology,
geology, mechanics and engineering,
bookkeeping and agriculture. The |
London Daily News, i'll commenting
upon this decision, remarks: This is |
one more sign that our system of So
called pTactica| teaching has completely
broken down in all the arts Our rivals |
III industry, the Germans, train for every
thing, and with marked success. The |
French are not very far behind them.
Their school Of commerce is probably
one Of the best in the world their school
of forestry is admittedly the best For
long time, if not actually at the present
moment, our civil service students who
were working appointments in Indian
forestry had to complete their education
in France. 1t would be difficult to name
any single branch of a great industry
which can now be cultivated with SUI
cess without knowledge of its princi-
pies. Through the want of such
knowledge British farming is, where it is
today"
IT is interesting to observe the pro-
gress of American education upon the
Pacific coast. There are schools and
seminarics in California which boast Of
pupils gathered from half the world. A
list OF the graduates of one of these in
situations, published in a San Francisco
paper, contains names not only from ,
that state and al i0cent territories, but
also from Mexico. Guatemala, Salvador, s
Chill, Tahiti, Honolulu, Japan aud '
Austraia. The influence which such a t
of students must exert among
their own people on their return to their
homes must be wholly American in sen. +
timent, democratic in politics and liberal '
in religion. The teachings thus re, a
ceived must cnlighten and rcvolutionize q
the dead old world of TIE Pacific. c
The inconvenience created in Italy by
the scarcity of silver coins, will be y
alleviatcd by a measure Just taken by !
Signor Grimaldi, the Finance Minister. a
Tie has decided upon the coming of S
nickel "picces' or coins of 20 confines,
0r cents, similar to those in use in a
Belgium and Switzerland Meanwhile t
he clause relative to the international a
zation or exchange of small missionary
,oins between the countries belonging t.
o the Latin Monetary League Las been "
1brogated. Thanks to this, the expor- II
alton of such coin will become impOssi- p
bic; and it is expected that the scarcity o
If silver money, which has caused lately
great loss to Italian commerce, will a
cease. G.
A PHYSICIAN has written an article to y
how that dyspepsia is due to disorder 3
# the head, and not to the stomach
lie says: "The numbers of so.called
dyspepsia that are cured by the disap-
'earance of business, domestic or social
nnoyance are nearly unlimited. An al
vcrdue note in the possession of a st
cetle nosed and bcctle-eyed creditor is III
lore productive of dyspepsia than NJ
zeal of second hand carpet tacks. In tt
act, it may be safe thing to assume b'
hat in dyspepsia we had Better look in W
he garnet, closet or cellar of the dyspep- &C
c'S house or among his business or tt
1cial relations, rather than to his OF
;omach, for the solution of the diff 81
ulty.' ftt
THE election of Miss Ella NJ. Grub III
} be Superintendent OF Schools for w
dams County, Ill.,, has aroused great is
terest there, for next to Cook county, cl
he head city Of which is Chicago, Adams ha
the most populous county in the State, ru
I'd this is the first time in its history "
lat q woman has been elected to office. tn
iss Grubb is only twenty eight years co
d. AS an instance Of her pluck and SO
Oh character it may be said that she tn
IS already paid back from her earnings ap
teacher the money she was compelled WI
borrow to secure college education. tn
CARP fry were literally distributed to M ~,
o waters of the lower Delaware and If
J branches several years ago, and the ia
suits of the distribution are now seen ~
ON time to time. 4 17-pound German -