St. Landry democrat., 1893-05-20
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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Congress at the Chicago Fair. The age
limit of delegates will be between thir-
teen and twenty -one years. The Congress
will be held during the latter part of
July.
WHEN General CORVALLIS surrendered
in Yorktown his army of Euglishmen
consisted, according to military reports,
of 1921 soldiers and $40 salors-S, 0S7
in all. The number of locomotives now
in use on American railways is 80, 1870.
or four times as many as Corvallis
soldiers and sailors. The number Of cars
is 900, 600.
A CoMMASDER in the United States
navy says that the heaviest drain on the
resources of the officers comes from
social obligations, especially i'll foreign
ports. They are invited to dine with a
king, prince, governor, and Us rep
resentatives of this nation they have to
go. Then, in return, they must invite
the potcntate to dinner with them; they
must decorate the ship brilliantly and
provide a sumptuous "spread' not only
for the king, but for as many of his
Ministers and hangers on as he chooses
to bring with him, and every time this is
done each officer must go down into his
pocket for $25 or more.
THERE is an army of men employed
upon the railroads of the United States,
IN army of 734, 600 They are not en-
gagged in idle manTuvres, dress parades,
barrack drills, or preparations for war
fare, but by their diligence, energy, and
toll contribute immensely to the wealth,
wel-bcing, and development of the
country, the interchange of its products,
the diffusion of information, and the
prompt transportation of vast numbers
of passengers with remarkably low
percentage of casualties. The number
of passengers carried last year was SO
600, 000 The number Of passengers
killed was 293.
"Nor lorg ago. says The Philadel
phia Record, "a local collector, whose
letters of rare interest only his most in
innate friends are allowed to see, secured
possession of about twenty letters of a
Revolutionary hero which were most
valuable historically on account of the
new light they threw upon some disputed
points. There number, however, neccs-
sarily reduced their individual CONNER
cial valuc, SO ten Of them were consigned
to the flames without having even been
copied. The value of the remaining ten
was, of course, enhanced greatly by this
course. To such collectors the money
value of letter is the only point to be
o1ucsIorol or1 4hor do hocttato 10
make any sacrifice that will increase this
value. Many very important historical
letters have recently been destroyed in
this way
IN order to show that women are not
idle, woman, in "The Washington
STAR" gives the following record of her
work for a year: Number of lunches
put up, 1,157 meals ordered 90};
desserts made, 172; lamps filled, 1928;
rooms busted, ,, 1859; times dressed chill
drcn, 7s6; visits received, $40; visits
paid, 167; books read, 80; papers read,
5J3; stories read aloud, 23l; games
played, 329; church services attended,
1875; articles mended, 1886; articles of
clothing made, 1870; fancy articles made,
Sc; letters written. 429; hours in music,
90 10; hours in Sunday school work,
2O8; hours i'll gardening. 40; sick days,
Al; amuscmcnts attended, 10. Besides
this she nursed the two children through
measles, cleaned house twice, put up
sevcntv-tive jars of pickles and preserves,
made seven trips to the dentist. dyed
Easter eggs, polished silver and spent
seven days in helping to nurse sick
friend.
SPECIAL days are to be a great feature
at the Worlds Fair. Nearly, if not
quite every state Of the Union will have
its day, upon which special exercises
will be held, and its governor and staff,
other state officers, militia and thousands
of its distinguished and other citizens
will he in attendance. Receptions will
be held at the state buildings respec
lively, and the governors and others will
make speeches. Many musical, civic
and secret societies also have made APP
plication for special day upon which
to hold exercises peculiar to themselves.
Among them are the Masons, Odd
Fellows, Knights of Pythias and
Foresters. The Welsh Eistedfodd will
have an entire week for musical cele-
bration. 1t is believed that these spec
ial features will draw many additional
thousands of visitors to the Fair. Ar
for these special days are
being made 10y Colonel Culp, secretary
of the Ceremonies Committee, which |
had the Dedication Day exercises in
charge. |
A PENNSYLVANIA coal company has a
plan for the reclamation of the pillars Of
coal, vast in bulk. which are left as sup-
ports in the mines. In brief; it Is to
carry the culm back into the mines by |
means of water. This culm will solidify !,
and hold up the surface so that the
pillars can be removed. An eight inch !;
bore hole is to be stink in the Noting
ham mines at Plymouth to depth of |
700 feet, and through this the flushing
will be done. An experiment in the
Murray shaft at Wilkesbarre has already
been successful. Under the present
system of working the mines only forty
to fifty per cent, of coal can be taken out,
but by the flushing process d new sup
port is furnished, and new chambers and |
breasts can be driven around the solidi-
fed culm, thus making it possible to
out all but five per cent of the entire
deposit of coal as it originally existed.
Fifty acres are to be flushed at the Not
tingham mine at first, and the work |
will be extended as the coal is taken out. |
The profits of the undertaking. if it
proves successful. will be enormous.
THE Bureau of Music of the Worlds
Fair has issued the following relative to
by American artists at the Expo.
sition. "Those among the Younger. native |