St. Landry democrat., 1893-07-22
NOTES AND COsIMENrS.


going on under the direction of an agent
Of Yale College, which has secured the
remains. The reptile (f0r so it is cassed).
Judging from its vertebrate, ribs, etc,
must have been at least 100 feet long.
The ribs measure IS inches in width.
The bones were imbodded in hillside
OF course sandstone, and distributed over
space Of 600 feet Some Of them have
been taken out weighing few pounds,
and others hundreds OF pounds Prof.
.. G. Marsh Of Yale writes to the Colo
RADIO Sun as follows: IF anywhere
near rs large as represented, the animal
Is probably a dinosaur from the iurassic,
perhaps similar to the one named ATTAIN
tosaurus, which was found near Morrison
in your State. Other specimens nearly
allied have been found near Canon CITY
Ill the same formation. Some other very
large reptiles have been found in the
cretaceous, especially, in Colorado and
Wyoming, but none are known from the
carbonlfcrous. have myself never been
in the immediate region where this new
fossil is said to have been found, but the
jurassic is we'll developed east and north
of there, making it probable that it may
exist at the locality named" The skele-
ton lies siXtytyc miles from Maucos by
wagon road.
STATE Controller Hcppcnheimer of
New Jersey is collecting information for
his report on railroads aud canals, which
is designed to present in the cearcst
light possible the causes of the accidents
that have occurred during the year.
The main causes of injury and death on
railroads have been the coupler and the
striking down CT men while at work on
tracks. The total number Of persons in
jurcd on the railroads in New Jersey last
year was 953, two-thrds of whom were
employees. There were 240 persons
killed. The treachcrous coupler was
the cause of the deaths of Il employees
and the injury Of $50. Eighteen men
were in jurcd by cars while at work on
the road and Is others were killed. The
careless habit of driving across railroad
tracks regardless of approaching trains
resulted in the killing of 137 persons and
Central Railroad, which has 1876 miles
of railroad track in the State of New
Jersey, shows record of 2J5 persons
injured and 50 killed. The coupler is
responsible for the injury of 80 train
men on this road.
TIE St. Louis Republic gets off the
following educational ideas: "And that
is the point when the attempt is made to
get at the point in the question of higher
education. Latin and Greek, chemistry,
astronomy, mathematics, everything that
goes to make education, will give more
power for any business, but they may
take away the inclination. The we'll
educated man could make moro money
at any business than the uneducated
man, but there is always a question of
whether he would or not-of whether he
would wish to make the sacrifice re-
quired to pay for money. Generally he
W ould not. So, if you wish your boy
to get great deal more money than he
can well earn, teach him to read, write
and cipher and then put him at business
He will be a great deal apter to become
very rich than if he We're thoroughly
educated. But if you wish him to be
widely useful, that is another matter,
and he must have al! the education you
can possibly give him.
EACH day of the year over $40, 600
persons in the United Kingdom are
driven to accept relief as paupers. In
the course of every year about two mill
ions of individuals are thus relieved. Al
least one in five persons over sixty five
years of age is a pauper. In London
alone, in 1892, there was an average Of
IS. 145 indoor and k>.792 outdoor pau
peers, over geo 900 individuals falling
for longer or shorter periods into this
condition in the course of the year. One
in every eight deaths in London takes
place in a workhousc or other Poor Law
institution.
II THE expectations of to-day are con-
summated, the time is not far distant
when the mouths of the Mississippi will
have reputation for fertility rivaling
that of the alluvial regions along the
Nile. Give to the lcgions of husband
men Of the basin of Mississippi security
from the annual avalanchcs of water
from the Ohio and Missouri and new
life will be in jcctcd into agriculture,
and the ovcrhOws of the Mississippi will
be succeeded by tidal wave of immi-
grafton as beneficial in its effects as are
the ovcrliows disastrous.
New YORK maintains its metropolitan
supremacy by the vast concentration Of
wealth that was secured through the
fact that it has long been the gateway Of
a rich and rapidly growing region in the
West. Its railways and its Erie Canal
gave it the rcadicst communication with
the rich and populous States of Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois, and their develop
ment made its first greatness. Now that
it is the money mart of the Western
World, it commands trade from every
quarter.
TIE doctors from all over the United
States and parts of Canada in attendance
upon the recent quarantine congress
were impressed with the inctfectiycnCss
of. the quarantine regulations Of the
United States, taken as u whole, and
with the excellence of most quarantine
features at this port. They seemed to
lc5dlA tuc u didltlnc 91SLtHl VI hiCuiSdu
as on the whole the best yet adopted by
any State.
PERHAPS the earliest Columbus mon
umcnt in the United States was that
erected at Baltimore by French resi-.
dent in 1893. Many persons believed,
in accordance with current tradition,
that it was erected to the memory of a
favorite horse, but the monument bears
this insert ption: "Chrs. Columbus,
Octr. II, MDCCNllIC."
TIE work of transforming vast tracts